Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
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Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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 the Company’s goals and deliver results critical to our long-term success. We structure compensation programs that reflect the competitive marketplace.

The components of compensation are developed by our Compensation and Human Capital Committee, with advice received from both its independent compensation consultant and our management team, and are set annually to ensure alignment with the Company’s compensation philosophy.

A substantial portion of executive compensation is at risk. Accordingly, our executive compensation components are weighted toward incentives which we believe encourage the creation of stockholder value through the advancement of our strategy and the achievement of the Company’s revenue growth, profitability improvement, cash flow, net income per share, and working capital efficiency goals, share price appreciation and total shareholder return. Though the Compensation and Human Capital Committee has not pre-established any relative weightings among the various compensation components, the Compensation and Human Capital Committee targets the market median in our Peer Group for each compensation component as well as at the overall total compensation of all components combined.

The Compensation and Human Capital Committee reviews the base salary and short-term and long-term incentive compensation mix for executive officers at least annually to ensure alignment with the Company's executive compensation philosophy.

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| Compensation Components(1) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Annual Compensation        | •Base Salary- fixed cash compensation based on the Compensation and Human Capital Committee's assessment of competitive market data, the position, and the incumbent executive officer's experience, skills, knowledge and performance; provides an appropriate level of financial certainty.                                               
 •Annual Incentives- variable performance-based cash compensation earned if annual financial and strategic objectives established by the Compensation and Human Capital Committee are achieved, with above-target payouts for above-target performance and below-target or no payouts for performance that falls short of established goals. |
| Long-Term Compensation(2)  | •Performance Stock Units- equity awards that reward the achievement of financial performance which contribute to the creation of stockholder value over the long-term, with above-target payouts for above-target performance and below-target or no payouts for performance that falls short of established goals.                         
 •Restricted Stock Units- equity awards that encourage retention while aligning management with stockholders' interests through stock ownership.                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Benefits                   | •The Company provides retirement, health and welfare plans that are the same as offered to all other salaried employees in the same geography. In addition, executive officers receive life insurance and long-term disability coverage and some executive officers receive certain limited perquisites.                                    |

(1) Where exigent circumstances exist