Company: SENEA
Filing Date: 2025-07-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-022256
Chunk: 13

Company: Seneca Foods Corp
Filing Date: 2025-07-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 13
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 expertise, contacts, industry knowledge and diversity of opinion. The Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee identifies nominees by first evaluating the current members of the Board of Directors willing to continue in service. Current members of the Board with skills and experience that are relevant to the Company’s business and who are willing to continue in service are considered for re-nomination. If any member of the Board does not wish to continue in service, or if the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee decides not to nominate a member for re-election, the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee first considers the appropriateness of the size of the Board. If the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee determines the Board seat should remain and a vacancy exists, the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee considers factors that it deems are in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders in identifying and evaluating a new nominee. The Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee will consider nominees suggested by incumbent Board members, management and shareholders.

Shareholder recommendations must be in writing and sent within the time periods set forth under the heading “Shareholder Proposals for the 2026 Annual Meeting” addressed to the Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, c/o Corporate Secretary, 418 East Conde Street, Janesville, WI 53546, and should include a statement setting forth the qualifications and experience of the proposed candidates and basis for nomination. Any person recommended by shareholders of the Company will be evaluated in the same manner as any other potential nominee for director.

Board Attendance at Meetings

The Board of Directors held four meetings during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025. Each director attended every meeting of the Board of Directors, and meetings held by all committees of the Board of Directors on which he or she served, while the director was an active member of the Board. Each director is expected to attend the Annual Meeting of shareholders. In 2024, the Annual Meeting of Shareholders was attended by all nine directors who were serving on the Board at that time.

Shareholder Communication with the Board

The Company provides an informal process for shareholders to send communications to the Board of Directors. Shareholders who wish to contact the Board of Directors or any of its members may do so in writing to Seneca Foods Corporation, 350 WillowBrook Office Park, Fairport, New York 14450. Correspondence directed to an individual board member will be referred, unopened, to that member. Correspondence not directed to a particular board member will be referred, un