Company: THS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001320695-25-000012
Chunk: 8

Company: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 8
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 Board, Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, and Vice President of Investor Relations participated in all of our meetings. Our Independent Directors also participated in the meetings when requested.

#### Pay for Performance Alignment
Our compensation philosophy is designed to attract, retain and motivate top-tier talent, appropriately pay for performance and align the interests of our stockholders with those of our NEOs. Our compensation approach is based on sound design principles that allow us to responsibly reward our executives in a labor climate where we need to attract and retain talent capable of leading our more focused portfolio and achieving our financial and strategic objectives. Our Compensation Committee has structured our compensation programs so that actual compensation received by our executives is aligned to the business results of the Company and the ultimate value realized by our stockholders. This is achieved by maintaining a high level of "at-risk" incentive pay, the majority of which is linked to the achievement of long-term business results and delivered in equity - further aligning interests to those of our stockholders. Our performance goals require significant effort to attain target payouts and we hold our executives accountable to those stretch objectives.

Over the past five years, our short-term incentive payouts as a percent of target have varied widely from year-to-year based on our operating performance. In 2024, the overall payout for each NEO's short-term incentive, excluding Mr. Lewis, was 0%. The Company's short-term incentive payout for 2024 reflects our pay for performance philosophy, as the payout is directly linked to our operating performance during the performance period. Additionally, 50% of our annual long-term incentives have been delivered as PSUs or performance cash awards. Similar to our short-term incentives, payouts have varied over the past five years consistent with our operating net income and cash flow performance.

#### 6TreeHouse Foods, Inc.2025 Proxy Statement
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#### Director Nominees and Continuing Directors
The following provides summary information about each director nominee and our continuing directors.

|                      |     |                                                                         |     |     |     |    Director 
       Since |     |    |     | Committee Membership for 2024-2025 Board Year |     |      |     |     |
|                      |     |                                                                         |     | Age |     | Independent |     | AC |     | CC                                            |     | NCGC |     |     |
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