Company: UTZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-038342
Chunk: 98

Company: Utz Brands, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 98
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 process more efficient and less costly and helps conserve natural resources. If you previously elected to receive our proxy materials electronically, these materials will continue to be sent via email unless you change your election. How may I participate in the virtual Annual Meeting? The Annual Meeting will be conducted completely online via the internet. Stockholders may attend and participate in the meeting by registering at http://register.proxypush.com/utz . Registered attendees will receive a meeting link an hour before the meeting begins. To access the Annual Meeting, you will need the control number found on your proxy card. If you are a stockholder of record and you have misplaced your virtual control number, please email the Company at tshea@utzsnacks.com. We encourage you to access the Annual Meeting before the start time of 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on April 24, 2025. If you check in prior to 8:45 a.m., you will be placed on hold until the meeting site opens. Stockholders who participate in the virtual Annual Meeting by way of the website above or the link provided following registration will be considered to have attended the meeting “in person,” as such term is used in this Proxy Statement, including for purposes of determining a quorum and counting votes. By conducting our Annual Meeting completely online via the internet, we eliminate many of the costs associated with a physical meeting. In addition, we believe that a virtual meeting will provide greater access to those stockholders who want to attend and improves our ability to communicate more effectively with our stockholders during the meeting.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT OUR ANNUAL MEETING

What is the minimum vote required for each proposal to be approved?

At the Annual Meeting, stockholders will consider and act upon (1) the election of four Class II directors named herein for terms expiring at the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, (2) an advisory recommendation to the Board of Directors to approve executive compensation, (3) the ratification of the selection by our Audit Committee of Grant Thornton LLP as our Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the fiscal year ending December 28, 2025, and (4) such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting.

With regard to Proposal No. 1 (Election of Directors), votes may be cast for the nominees or may be withheld. Each director nominee was recommended by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, and all nominees are current directors. The election of directors requires a plurality of