Company: CZR
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-093716
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Company: Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 89
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amingareas of the casino, including in restaurants and bathrooms. We believe that completely banning smoking from all our properties where it is not legally required may risk alienating our smoking customers. Given the overwhelming number of our competitors that permit smoking, unilateral implementation of a smoking ban would put us at a significant competitive disadvantage and could adversely impact our revenue. We take the health of all our customers seriously and when we allow smoking in certain designated areas of our properties, we also take steps to help protect the health of our non-smokingcustomers.

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We want to cater to as many customers as possible and we believe our current policies strike the appropriate balance in appealing to both smoking and non-smokingcustomers. For these reasons, among others, we believe that the proposal is not in the best interests of the Company, our customers or our shareholders.

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OTHER BUSINESS Management is not aware at this date that any other business matters will come before the meeting. If, however, any other matters should properly come before the meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the proxy to vote thereon in accordance with their judgment. The persons named in the proxy card will vote in accordance with the recommendation of the Board on any other matters incidental to the conduct of, or otherwise properly brought before, the Annual Meeting. The proxy card contains discretionary authority for them to do so. DIRECTOR NOMINATION AGREEMENT WITH THE ICAHN GROUP On March 17, 2025, the Company entered into the Director Nomination Agreement with the Icahn Group. The following is a summary of the terms of the Director Nomination Agreement. The summary does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Director Nomination Agreement, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-Kfiled with the SEC on March 20, 2025 and is incorporated herein by reference. Pursuant to the Director Nomination Agreement, effective as of March