Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
Chunk: 33

Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 33
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 Mses. O'Connor and Schneider earned 8,575 and 4,988 shares (including accrued dividend equivalents), respectively.

Timing of Equity Grants

Under the Company's equity award grant policy, each year's annual equity-based compensation awards (including options, if any) are granted to executive officers and other eligible employees during the first quarter of each year after the release of full-year earnings, unless circumstances arise that warrant establishing different dates, including share conservation strategies. Off-cycle (non-annual) awards may be made if our CEO and the Compensation and Human Capital Committee deem it necessary for newly promoted employees, strategic new hires, or in other special or unique circumstances. In such cases, the effective date for an off-cycle award is the first trading day of the month following a newly hired/promoted eligible employee's effective date of hire or promotion, as the case may be.

The Company does not schedule its equity grants in anticipation of the release of material, non-public information (“MNPI”), nor does the Company time the release of MNPI based on equity grant dates, in each case in a manner that would provide award recipients an opportunity benefit from such MNPI. In the event MNPI becomes known to the Compensation and Human Capital Committee prior to granting an equity award, the Committee will take the existence of such information into consideration and use its business judgment to determine whether to delay the grant of equity to avoid any appearance of impropriety. In 2024, no stock options or similar option-like awards were granted to our named executive officers, including during any period beginning four business days before the filing or furnishing of an annual, periodic or current report disclosing MNPI and ending one business day after the filing or furnishing of such report with the SEC.

Retirement Benefits

In line with our overall compensation philosophy, the Company has historically aimed to provide competitive retirement benefits. In the United States, this has been done by providing retirement benefits through a combination of both tax-qualified and non-qualified defined benefit plans and tax-qualified and non-qualified defined contribution plans.

Defined Contribution - 401(k) - United States

All of the Company’s named executive officers (other than Mr. Monko) were participants in the Company’s U.S. tax-qualified 401(k) retirement savings plan during 2024. The Company’s 401(k) program matches employee contributions at 100 percent of the first six percent of eligible plan compensation. These matching contributions apply to all participating employees, including our named executive officers (other than Mr. Mon