Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
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Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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                                                                                         | MSA Safety Incorporated         | Tupperware Brands Corporation  |
| Energizer Holdings, Inc.                                                                                               | Pitney Bowes Inc.               | UniFirst Corporation           |
| Helen of Troy Limited                                                                                                  | Sonos Inc.                      |                                |
| (1) Kimball International, Inc. was removed from the Peer Group as they were acquired by HNI Corporation in June 2023. |                                 |                                |

In May 2024, the Compensation and Human Capital Committee, in consultation with Meridian, approved a new Peer Group consisting of 18 companies. The new Peer Group will be used for the 2025 compensation review.

| Peer Group Approved in May 2024 (To be Used for 2025 Compensation Review) |                             |                                |
| Armstrong World Industries, Inc.                                          | Energizer Holdings, Inc.    | MillerKnoll, Inc.              |
| Brady Corporation                                                         | Helen of Troy Limited       | Pitney Bowes Inc.              |
| Cimpress plc                                                              | HNI Corporation             | Sonos Inc.                     |
| Corsair Gaming Inc.                                                       | Interface, Inc.             | Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. |
| Deluxe Corporation                                                        | Mativ Holdings, Inc.        | Steelcase Inc.                 |
| Edgewell Personal Care Company                                            | Matthews International Corp | The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company |

#### 40ACCO BRANDS| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT
Executive Total Compensation and Compensation Mix

The Compensation and Human Capital Committee believes that linking pay and performance contributes to the creation of stockholder value. Annually, the Compensation and Human Capital Committee reviews base salary and short-term and long-term incentives relative to our Peer Group companies. For the pay-and-performance link to be effective, experienced individuals who have proven to be strong contributors to the Company’s performance should be rewarded with total compensation that falls at approximately the median of total compensation paid to similarly situated executives of the companies in our Peer Group. The Compensation and Human Capital Committee may exercise discretion and consider additional factors such as individual performance, experience level, future potential and specific job assignment of the executive, pay equity, market conditions and the Company’s recent performance when determining pay for any of our executive officers.

In considering 2024 total compensation adjustments for the named executive officers other than the CEO, the Compensation and Human Capital Committee used performance assessments by our CEO and the compensation information from our Peer Group and survey data from comparable benchmarks, appropriately aged. In the case of the CEO,