Company: CL
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000223
Chunk: 53

Company: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 53
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) on Thursday, May 8, 2025, unless you are a Colgate employee participating in the Savings & Investment Plan or another Colgate employee stock ownership plan, in which case the deadline for voting is 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. When you vote your proxy, you can specify whether you wish to vote “FOR” or “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN” from voting on each nominee for director, the ratification of the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025 and, if properly presented at the meeting by each stockholder proponent, two stockholder proposals. In addition, you can cast a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation. We will vote your shares as you direct. If any other matters are properly presented for consideration at the Annual Meeting, the Proxy Committee will have discretion to vote for you on those matters. At the time this Proxy Statement was printed, we knew of no other matters to be raised at the Annual Meeting.

| VOTE      
 BY        
 INTERNET  |     | To                                                                                                                                  
 vote your shares via the internet, go to the voting website, www.proxyvote.com. Internet voting is available 24 hours a day,        
 seven days a week. You will have the opportunity to confirm that your instructions have been properly recorded. The internet        
 voting procedures are designed to authenticate stockholders through individual control numbers. If you received a proxy card        
 in the mail and choose to vote via the internet, you do not need to return your proxy card.                                         |
| VOTE      
 BY        
 TELEPHONE |     | If                                                                                                                                  
 you reside in the United States, Canada or Puerto Rico, you can vote your shares by telephone by calling the toll-free number       
 provided on the voting website (www.proxyvote.com) and on the proxy card. Telephone voting is available 24 hours a day, seven       
 days a week. Easy-to-follow voice prompts allow you to vote your shares and confirm that your instructions have been properly       
 recorded. The telephone voting procedures are designed to authenticate stockholders through individual control numbers. If          
 you received a proxy card in the mail and choose to vote by telephone, you do not need to return your proxy card.                   |
| VOTE      
 BY        
 MAIL      |     | If                                                                                                                                  
 you received a printed copy of your proxy materials, you can vote your shares by completing and mailing the enclosed proxy          
 card to us