Company: GPI
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001031203-25-000023
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Company: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 prospective investors, existing shareholders and investment research analysts to discuss the Company’s publicly disclosed performance, business strategy and outlook, and corporate governance. These events include earnings teleconferences, investor calls, meetings, and conferences, non-deal roadshows and site visits.

Key topics include discussions regarding Company strategy, capital allocation, share repurchases, publicly disclosed acquisitions, the impact of our inventory supply on new and used vehicle sales, market trends, parts and service strategies, finance and insurance strategies, digital retail strategies and profitability. This interaction helps management and the Board to understand and consider the views of Group 1’s shareholders, perception of the investment community, and industry and economic outlook from research analysts, while enabling the Company to effectively operate in an evolving industry and economy with a focus of maximizing returns for our shareholders.

#### GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE2025 PROXY STATEMENT23
| Compensation of Directors |

#### Pay Structure

#### ANNUAL RETAINER
The annual retainer paid to non-employee directors for the 2024 Board cycle is dependent upon the role each director holds, as follows:

| Annual Cash Compensation(1)(2)                        |     | 2024 
 ($)  |         |
| Annual Retainer                                       |     |      |         |
| Annual Cash Retainer                                  |     |      |  65,000 |
| Equity Retainer(3)                                    |     |      | 225,000 |
| Additional Annual Retainers                           |     |      |         |
| Non-Executive Chair of the Board                      |     |      | 175,000 |
| Audit Committee Chair                                 |     |      |  30,000 |
| Compensation & Human Resources Committee Chair        |     |      |  25,000 |
| Finance/Risk Management Committee Chair               |     |      |  25,000 |
| Governance & Corporate Responsibility Committee Chair |     |      |  25,000 |

(1) Annual cash retainers are paid quarterly.

(2) Non-employee directors do not receive additional compensation for attending regular Board or committee meetings.

(3) Paid as either restricted stock or restricted stock units, in each case valued at approximately $225,000 on the grant date.

#### EQUITY-BASED COMPENSATION
For 2024, our non-employee directors were paid an annual equity retainer consisting of either restricted stock or restricted stock units valued at approximately $225,000 on the grant date. Messrs. Pereira, Stanbrook,