Company: SWAGW
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-062961
Chunk: 38

Company: Stran & Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form: DEF 14A
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 and will renew for an additional one-year term at the end of the current and each subsequent one-year term unless either party provides notice to the other 60 days prior to the end of the then-current term.

The Company may terminate Mr. Shape’s employment by giving at least 30 days' written notice. If we terminate Mr. Shape without cause or he resigns for good reason as provided under the Shape Employment Agreement, we must pay at least 24 months’ severance, reimbursement of Mr. Shape for the first 18 months of the premiums associated with Mr. Shape’s continuation of health insurance for Mr. Shape and his family pursuant to COBRA, and immediate vesting of any outstanding unvested equity granted to Mr. Shape during Mr. Shape’s employment and immediate lifting of all lockups and restrictions on sales of such equity or exercise of stock options. If we give notice of non-renewal of the Shape Employment Agreement with 60 days’ notice, then, upon Mr. Shape’s execution of a release, we must pay six months’ severance and reimburse the first six months of the premiums associated with Mr. Shape’s continuation of health insurance for him and his family pursuant to COBRA.

Mr. Shape is also subject to standard confidentiality and noncompetition provisions, and Mr. Shape’s stock option agreement contains certain non-competition and non-solicitation provisions pursuant to the standard form of such agreement under the Stran & Company, Inc. Amended and Restated 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

Employment Agreement with David Browner

From January 1, 2022 to July 28, 2022, David Browner, then the Company’s Controller, was provided an annual salary of $150,000 and standard employee benefits on an at will basis. As of July 29, 2022, Mr. Browner was appointed as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer. In connection with the appointment, effective as of July 29, 2022, Mr. Browner’s salary was increased to $200,000, and Mr. Browner was provided with a $750 monthly car allowance. On March 27, 2023, Mr. Browner was appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Browner’s compensation was left unchanged pending review by the Compensation Committee.

On April 14, 2023, the Compensation Committee approved an Employment Agreement with Mr. Browner (the “Browner Employment Agreement”),