Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000111
Chunk: 67

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 67
---
 and an estimate of the anticipated costs of performing those services. Services not previously approved cannot commence until such approval has been granted. Pre-approval usually is granted at regularly scheduled meetings. If unanticipated items arise between meetings of the Audit Committee, the Audit Committee has delegated approval authority to the Chairman of the Audit Committee, in which case the Chairman communicates such pre-approvals to the full Audit Committee at its next meeting.

Vote Required and Board's Recommendation

Approval of the Auditor Proposal requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the proposal. Under New York Stock Exchange rules, this is considered a routine matter, and brokers may exercise discretionary authority to vote on this proposal if no instructions are provided by the beneficial owner. Broker non-votes are not expected on this proposal, as brokers are permitted to vote uninstructed shares. Abstentions will not be counted as votes cast and will therefore have no effect on the outcome of the vote. You may vote "FOR," "AGAINST," or "ABSTAIN" on this proposal.

| THE BOARD RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE AUDITOR PROPOSAL |

| Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. |     | 43 |     | 2025 Proxy Statement |

#### PROPOSAL NINE - ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL
Approval of the Adjournment of the Annual Meeting, if Necessary or Advisable, to Solicit Additional Proxies

In this proposal, we are asking our stockholders to authorize us to adjourn the Annual Meeting to another time and place, if necessary or advisable, to solicit additional proxies in the event there are not sufficient votes to approve Proposal Four - the ELOC Share Issuance Proposal, Proposal Five - the SPA Share Issuance Proposal, Proposal Six - the Authorized Shares Proposal and Proposal Seven - the Incentive Plan Proposal described in this Proxy Statement at the Annual Meeting. If our stockholders approve this proposal, we could adjourn the Annual Meeting, to solicit additional proxies and/or to seek to convince stockholders to change their votes in favor of such proposals.

If it is necessary or advisable to adjourn the Annual Meeting, no notice of any adjournment of less than thirty (30) days is required to be given if the time and place of the adjourned meeting, and the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote