Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059273
Chunk: 5

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 purpose, a majority of the votes cast means that the number of shares voted “for” a director nominee must exceed the number of votes cast “against” that nominee. Abstentions and broker “non-votes”are not counted as votes for or against a nominee. If you “abstain” from voting with respect to director nominees, your shares will be counted for purposes of a quorum but will have no effect on the election of the nominees. All of our director nominees are currently serving on our Board of Directors, except for Mr. Dierker, who will join the Board on April 2, 2025, concurrently with assuming the role of our President and Chief Executive Officer. If a nominee who is currently serving as a director is not re-elected,Delaware law provides that the director would continue to serve on our Board of Directors as a “holdover director.” Under our Corporate Governance Guidelines (“Corporate Governance Guidelines”), each incumbent director nominee submits, prior to the Annual Meeting, an irrevocable resignation that our Board of Directors may accept if stockholders do not re-electthe director. If a director is not re-electedby our stockholders, the Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee would make a recommendation to our Board of Directors on whether to accept or reject the resignation of that director, or whether to take other action. Our Board of Directors would act on the resignation, taking into account the Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee’s recommendation, and publicly disclose its decision and the rationale behind it within 90 days from the date that the election results are certified. Our proposal to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers (Proposal 2), our proposal to ratify the selection of our independent registered accounting firm for 2025 (Proposal 3) and, if properly presented at the meeting, the consideration of a stockholder proposal (Proposal 4, the “Stockholder Proposal”), will be determined by the affirmative vote of the majority of votes represented at the meeting (in person or by proxy) and entitled to vote on such matters. An abstention will have the same effect as a vote against with respect to the advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers, the ratification of our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025, and the consideration of the Stockholder

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