Company: CODI-PB
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-013771
Chunk: 6

Company: Compass Diversified Holdings
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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| Proposal 3 |     | To ratify the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP to serve as the independent auditor for Compass Diversified Holdings and Compass Group Diversified Holdings LLC for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 |     | FOR            |     |   54 |

TABLE OF CONTENTS

| 07 |     | 2025 Proxy |

Company Highlights Overview of Business Our organization is comprised of three separate, independent, business entities that work closely together: Compass Group Management LLC, the privately held external manager of the organization, which we refer to as our “Manager”, Compass Diversified Holdings, which we refer to as the “Trust” and Compass Group Diversified Holdings LLC, which we refer to as the “Company.” Although the shares issued to the public are technically at the Trust level (NYSE: CODI), the Trust and the Company file consolidated reports with the SEC. The Company has access to substantial financial resources which are utilized for the acquisition and active management of innovative and disruptive middle-market businesses. Upon completion of an acquisition, we immediately begin to work with the acquired company’s management team to help realize their vision, identifying the most critical and time sensitive needs, and developing strategies to address them. Our unique structure allows for the efficient and quick consummation of transactions, without financing contingencies, including obtaining acquisition financing on a transaction-by-transaction basis. In addition, our subsidiaries have ongoing access to substantial growth capital. Finally, our long-term ownership perspective is not impacted by artificial ownership timing criteria. Rather, we continuously work with our subsidiaries to achieve growth organically and through add-on acquisitions. We opportunistically evaluate strategic alternatives and assess the appropriate individual course of action for each of our companies, without regard to external and unrelated factors. Our Manager provides management services to the organization in accordance with a Management Services Agreement between the Manager and the Company, which we refer to as the “Management Services Agreement.” The Management Services Agreement defines the duties and responsibilities of our Manager, its relationship with the Company, and the areas over which the Company’s Board has ultimate oversight and authority. Our Manager, in exchange for a management fee, is tasked with performing the services necessary for the day-to-day business, operations and affairs of the Company, as the Company currently does not have any employees and does not expect to have any employees in the foreseeable future. 2024 Performance Highlights and Key Accomplishments For the full year 2024, the Company achieved double-digit sales