Company: THS
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: PRER14A
Source: 0001320695-25-000014
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Company: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: PRER14A
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### Company Overview
TreeHouse Foods is a leading private brands snacking and beverage manufacturer in North America. Our purpose is to Engage and Delight - One Customer at a Time . We serve a wide range of customers across North America. Our products are available to consumers every day through the retail grocery, warehouse & club store and e-commerce channels. Our products are also sold to restaurants and institutions through foodservice distributors. Many of our products serve industrial, ingredient, export and co-pack customers as well. Through our customer focus and category experience, we strive to deliver excellent service, build capabilities and provide insights to drive mutually profitable growth for both TreeHouse and our customers. Our purpose is supported by investments in depth, capabilities and operational efficiencies which are aimed to capitalize on the long-term growth prospects within the categories where we operate.

We operate a network of approximately 25 production facilities across the United States and Canada. Our uncompromising standards of food safety and quality are underpinned by manufacturing best practices, a process-driven culture and continuous improvement principles.

#### 2TreeHouse Foods, Inc.2025 Proxy Statement
| Proxy Statement Summary |

We believe we are well positioned at the intersection of snacking & beverage and private brands trends, across attractive growth categories. Our portfolio includes snacking, beverages & drink mix, as well as other grocery offerings. We also offer our customer partners a range of value and nutritional solutions, including natural, organic, kosher, and gluten free offerings, and offerings which contain ingredients which are third-party certified as responsibly sourced, providing each customer with the capability to meet the unique needs of all consumers.

#### Performance Highlights
We continued progress on our journey in 2024 strengthening our leadership position at the intersection of private brands and snacking across food & beverage categories. With that said, as the year progressed, the overall economic backdrop remained challenging for consumers, with most categories experiencing softer trends in the second half of the calendar year. Grocery retailers maintained higher shelf prices due to continued broad-based inflationary pressure. These higher shelf prices, along with nominal consumer savings rates and other macro factors put pressure on consumers, driving changes to their purchasing behavior. Ultimately, overall food and beverage unit consumption was weaker than the