Company: THS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001320695-25-000007
Chunk: 28

Company: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 28
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 by operationalizing these values in our hiring practices, performance management processes, and our approach to leadership development and training.  

As of December 31, 2024, our work force consisted of approximately 7,400 full-time employees, with 6,000 in the United States and 1,400 in Canada. Approximately 1,800 were salaried, and 5,600 were hourly employees. Approximately 2,100 were unionized, and 5,300 were non-union employees. We have not experienced any material interruptions of operations due to disputes with our employees and consider our relations with our employees to be satisfactory. 

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Key areas of focus for the Company include:

Health and Safety: The safety of our employees is a top priority. Our business could not operate without our team members, and our plant employees are essential to the success of our company. TreeHouse is committed to creating a culture of Environmental, Health, Safety ("EHS") excellence through personal responsibility and risk prevention. Safety is incorporated into our TreeHouse Management Operating System ("TMOS") and under TMOS, our plants are accountable to EHS Improvement Plans, Environmental Compliance Plans and standardized Incident Investigation and Communication processes. We have established a common plant structure for our EHS organization at our facilities, which allows us to proactively identify improvement opportunities by leveraging best practices and better focus our resources on safety risk identification and mitigation. We continue to focus on empowerment by proactively identifying improvement opportunities through external benchmarking. Additionally, our focus on engagement and internal successes creates an environment where everyone can thrive. 

Culture: We are committed to promoting equal opportunity across our organization. We believe building a team diverse in ideas, experiences, and backgrounds enables us to be more successful in our jobs and better address the needs of customers and consumers. Our Board oversees our ESG strategy, including through its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which regularly reviews the Company’s ESG activities, developments, goals and objectives, including the Company’s ESG programs and disclosures. The Compensation Committee of our Board meets with the Company’s ESG Steering Committee to review human capital activities, developments, goals and objectives incorporated into the Company’s ESG initiatives. Our ESG Steering Committee drives our activities in this space, and is composed of our Executive Leadership Team, including our Chairman, CEO, and President. This committee is supported by four subcommittees and our ESG team, which is led by our EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer & General Counsel.

Learning and Development: We place