Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059273
Chunk: 36

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 36
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 any stockholder nominees) and ascertains whether, as a whole, they meet the Corporate Governance Guidelines in this regard. For this year’s election, the Board has nominated 12 individuals who bring varied experiences to the Board. Their collective experience covers a wide range of roles, geographies, and industries. The Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee works with the search firms engaged by the Company to seek a wide range of candidates for serious consideration in all prospective director candidate pools. In addition, the Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee is committed to considering directors with all backgrounds for all future vacancies on the Board. The Board has also modified its age and tenure restrictions to increase refreshment of the Board and opportunities to add new Board members. The guidelines require that Board members serving prior to January 2021 retire on the earlier of reaching age 75, or twenty years on the

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| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

Board and Board members joining after January 2021 retire on the earlier of reaching age 75 or fifteen years on the Board. The Board also believes that tenure diversity should be considered in order to achieve an appropriate balance between the detailed Company-knowledge and wisdom that comes with many years of service, and the fresh perspective of newer Board members. We believe that our current Board has an appropriate balance of experienced and newer directors, with tenure of the current directors averaging 10.8 years. The Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee balances all of the above considerations when assessing the composition of our Board of Directors. The Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee may engage the services of third-party search firms to assist in identifying and assessing the qualifications of director candidates. We have adopted policies to ensure that our directors do not have excessive time commitments. As set forth in our Corporate Governance Guidelines, ordinarily, members of our Board of Directors should not serve on the board of directors of more than four public companies (including the Company), and our Chief Executive Officer should not serve on the board of directors of more than two public companies (including the Company), without the approval of the Governance, Nominating and Corporate Responsibility Committee. Compliance with this policy is reviewed annually, and all of the members of our Board are currently in compliance with this policy. The Board continuously evaluates and, as appropriate, updates our corporate governance practices based on recommendations from the Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee. In recent years we