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 78
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) or any other matter that may properly come before the meeting absent specific instructions from you. Therefore, it is important that you follow the voting instructions on the form that you receive from your bank, broker or other nominee.

What if I participate in the ACCO Brands 401(k) plan?

We also are making this Proxy Statement available to and seeking voting instructions from participants in the ACCO Brands 401(k) plan who hold shares of our common stock under such plan. The trustees of the plan, as record holders of ACCO Brands common stock held in the plan, will vote whole shares attributable to you in accordance with your directions given on your voting instruction card, by telephone or through the Internet. If you hold shares of our common stock under the plan, please complete, sign and return your voting instruction card or provide voting instructions by telephone or through the Internet, as described on the voting instruction card, prior to May 16, 2025. The voting instruction card will serve as instructions to the plan trustees to vote the shares attributable to your interest in the manner you indicate on the card.

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting

Our Proxy Statement and 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K are available at:https://web.viewproxy.com/ACCO/2025.

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Certain Information Regarding Security Holders

The following table sets forth the beneficial ownership of the Company’s common stock as of March 1, 2025 by the following individuals or entities:

each person known to us that owns more than 5% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock;

each of our director nominees and named executive officers; and

all directors, director nominees named executive officers and all other executive officers of the Company as a group.

Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC. Except as otherwise indicated, each person named in the table has sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock shown as beneficially owned, subject to applicable community property laws. As of March 1, 2025, 92,265,603 shares of common stock were outstanding. In computing the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership of that person, shares of common stock that are subject to RSUs or stock options held by that person that have vested or that will vest or become exercisable on or before April 30, 2025 (within 60