Company: CHUC
Filing Date: 2025-06-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-021182
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Company: Charlie's Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 person. In either case, the powers of the proxy holders will be suspended if you attend the meeting in person and so request, although attendance at the meeting will not by itself revoke a previously granted proxy.

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How is the Company soliciting this proxy?

We are soliciting this proxy on behalf of our Board and will pay all expenses associated with this solicitation. In addition to mailing these proxy materials, certain of our officers and other employees may, without compensation other than their regular compensation, solicit proxies through further mailing or personal conversations, or by telephone, facsimile, or other electronic means. We will also, upon request, reimburse brokers and other persons holding stock in their names, or in the names of nominees, for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses for forwarding proxy materials to the beneficial owners of our stock and to obtain proxies.

What vote is required to approve each item?

Directors are elected by plurality vote and there is no cumulative voting. Accordingly, the director nominees receiving the highest vote totals that are present in person or by proxy, and entitled to vote at the meeting will be elected as our directors. The other proposals require a majority of the votes cast by the stockholders present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting

How are votes counted?

With regard to the election of directors, you may vote “FOR” or “WITHHOLD,” and votes that are withheld will be excluded entirely from the vote and will have no effect. For the other proposals, you may vote “FOR,” “AGAINST,” or “ABSTAIN.” Our bylaws provide that abstentions are excluded from consideration and are not considered a vote cast and therefore abstentions will have no impact on any of the proposals. For the director election proposal, any shares not voted “FOR” a particular nominee (whether as a result of an abstention, a direction to withhold authority, or a broker non-vote) will not be counted in the nominee’s favor.

If you hold your shares in “street name,” we have supplied copies of our proxy materials for our Annual Meeting to the broker, trust, bank, or other nominee holding your shares of record and they have the responsibility to send these proxy materials to you. Your broker, trust, bank or other nominee that has not received voting instructions from you may not vote on any proposal other than approval of our independent registered certified public accounting firm for fiscal year 2025 (Proposal 2). These so-called “broker non-votes” will be included in the