Company: GPI
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001031203-25-000018
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Company: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: PRE 14A
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 our 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and at any postponed or reconvened meeting. |

WILL THE ANNUAL MEETING ALSO BE HELD IN-PERSON OR ONLY VIRTUALLY?

We have decided to conduct the 2025 Annual Meeting solely online via the Internet through a live webcast and online shareholder tools. We believe a virtual format facilitates shareholder attendance and participation by leveraging technology to allow us to communicate more effectively and efficiently with our shareholders. This format empowers shareholders around the world to participate at no cost. We have designed the virtual format to enhance shareholder access and participation and protect shareholder rights. Specifically:

We Encourage Questions. Shareholders have multiple opportunities to submit questions for the meeting. Shareholders may submit a question online in advance or live during the meeting, following the instructions below. During the meeting, we will answer as many appropriate shareholder-submitted questions as time permits. Following the Annual Meeting, we will publish an answer to each appropriate question we received on the Investor Relations section of our website at www.group1auto.com as soon as practicable.

We Believe in Transparency. Although the live webcast is available only to shareholders at the time of the meeting, following completion of the Annual Meeting, a webcast replay, final report of the inspector of election, and answers to all appropriate questions asked by investors in connection with the Annual Meeting will be posted as soon as practicable to the Investor Relations section of our website at www.group1auto.com .

#### WHEN IS THE MEETING?
Our Annual Meeting will be held virtually at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GPI2025 , on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., Central Daylight Saving Time, or at such other time and place to which the meeting may be adjourned.

#### WHO CAN ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING?
Only our shareholders as of 5:00 p.m. Central Daylight Saving Time, on March 19, 2025 (the record date) are entitled to receive notice of the Annual Meeting and to vote at the meeting. On March 19, 2025, there were 13,041,128 shares of Group 1 common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the meeting.

A list of shareholders will be available and may be inspected during normal business hours for a period of at least 10 days prior to the Annual Meeting at our offices at 730 Town & Country Blvd., Suite 500, Houston, Texas 77024.