Company: CLX
Filing Date: 2025-10-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001552781-25-000311
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Company: CLOROX CO /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-10-07
Form: DEF 14A
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 Company’s website at thecloroxcompany.com/company/policies-and-practices/codes-of-conduct,or can be obtained in print by contacting The Clorox Company, c/o Corporate Secretary, 1221 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612-1888. We require that all employees complete training and, with our Board members, certify compliance with the code of conduct annually. We also perform an annual audit of internal compliance with our Code of Conduct. We also have established a separate business partner code of conduct outlining our standards and expectations of our direct suppliers and other business partners, including distributors, service providers, consultants, licensees and joint ventures. The business partner code of conduct can also be found at thecloroxcompany.com/company/policies-and-practices/codes-of-conduct. Our business partners must certify compliance with the business partner code of conduct. As a method of assessing and validating compliance with the code, Clorox conducts annual and periodic assessments to identify suppliers that are at a higher risk for social and environmental sustainability issues. Certain suppliers are also required to complete a questionnaire or conduct an audit in accordance with standards set forth by Sedex, a global membership organization dedicated to driving improvements in ethical and responsible business practices in global supply chains.

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 Clorox Company 2025 Proxy Statement > Corporate Governance and Board Matters | 34 |

Director Independence Under the Governance Guidelines, a substantial majority of the Board must be independent. In exercising its business judgment and considering all relevant facts and circumstances, the Board determines whether individual Board members meet the independence criteria established by the NYSE and the Governance Guidelines. The Board makes an affirmative determination regarding the independence of each director annually, based upon the recommendation of the NGCRC. The Board has determined that each of our directors during fiscal year 2025 (including Spencer C. Fleischer) and our director nominees is independent under the NYSE listing standards and the independence standards set forth in the Governance Guidelines, except for Linda Rendle, since she is an employee of the Company.

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 our director nominees are 
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 Gina Boswell         
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 Stephen B. Bratspies 
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 Pierre R. Breber     
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 Julia Denman         
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 Esther Lee           | •                       
 A. D. David Mackay      
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 Stephanie Plaines       
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 Matthew J. Shattock     
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 Russell J. Weiner       
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 Christopher J. Williams |

The independent directors generally meet in executive