Company: GPI
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001031203-25-000018
Chunk: 73

Company: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 73
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 may be taken on one or more of the proposals in this proxy statement prior to such adjournment if sufficient proxies have been received and it is otherwise appropriate. If a quorum is present, the persons named as proxies will vote the proxies they have been authorized to vote on any other business properly brought before the meeting in favor of such an adjournment. If a quorum is initially established, but sufficient shareholders withdraw such that the meeting is left with less than a quorum, the remaining shareholders present during the meeting may continue to transact business until the meeting is adjourned or recessed.

#### HOW DO I VOTE?
If you are a shareholder of record on the record date, you may vote in person or online during the Annual Meeting or by proxy using any of the following methods:

| Visit the website shown on the proxy card (www.proxyvote.com) and follow the instructions at that website at any time prior to 11:59 p.m., Eastern Daylight Saving Time, on May 12, 2025;                                                              
 Within the U.S. or Canada, call the toll-free telephone number shown on the proxy card and follow the instructions at any time prior to 11:59 p.m., Eastern Daylight Saving Time, on May 12, 2025; or                                                  |
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| If you receive a paper copy of the proxy materials, complete, sign and date the proxy card and return the proxy card in the prepaid envelope. Your proxy card must be received by the Company before the voting polls close during the Annual Meeting. |

#### 72GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE2025 PROXY STATEMENT
If you vote by internet or telephone, do not return your proxy card. The telephone and internet voting procedures are designed to authenticate shareholders’ identities, to allow shareholders to give their voting instructions and to confirm that shareholders’ instructions have been recorded properly.

Submitting your proxy by internet or telephone will not affect your right to vote in person online should you decide to attend the Annual Meeting.

If you want to vote in person online during the meeting, you must have a control number and access our Annual Meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GPI2025 .

If you hold your shares in street name, you will receive instructions from your broker, bank or other nominee describing how to vote your shares. Beneficial owners voting by telephone or internet are subject to the same deadlines as described above for holders of record. If you want to vote in person, you must obtain a