Company: GEF
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000043920-25-000004
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Company: GREIF, INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
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shareholdermeeting.com/GEF2025.

DATE AND TIME:

Monday, February 24, 2025

8:00 a.m. Eastern Time

PLACE:

Webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GEF2025

ITEMS OF BUSINESS:

1. To el ect ten direc tors to serve for a one-year term;

2. To ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as Greif, Inc.'s independent auditor for fiscal year 2025;

3. To approve an amendment to a material term of the Company's 2001 Management Equity Incentive and Compensation Plan; and

4. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournments.

RECORD DATE:

Only stockholders of record of the Class B Common Stock at the close of business on December 27, 2024 will be entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting.

VOTING:

We hope that Class B stockholders will promptly vote over the internet, by phone, or by mailing their proxy cards in the enclosed envelope. Stockholders are always welcome to vote during the virtual meeting.

Vote by internet at www.proxyvote.com

Vote by phone at +1 800 690 6903

Vote by mailing your proxy card

Vote in person during the virtual meeting

On behalf of the Board of Directors, management and employees of Greif, thank you for your continued support.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

|                  |     | /s/ Gary R. Martz   |
|                  |     | Gary R. Martz       |
|                  |     | Corporate Secretary |
| January 10, 2025 |     |                     |

Greif - Proxy Statement 2

### TABLE OF CONTENTS
|                                                                                                                |     | Page |    |   |
| Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders                                                                       |     |      |    | 2 |
| Information About the Annual Meeting                                                                           |     |      |  5 |   |
| Proposal 1:  Election of Directors                                                                             |     |      |  7 |   |
| Proposal 2:  Ratification of Independent Auditors                                                              |     |      | 11 |   |
| Proposal 3: Approval of Amendment to a Material Term of 2001 Management Equity Incentive and Compensation Plan |     |      | 12 |   |
| Corporate Governance                                                                                           |     |      | 18 |   |
| Board of Directors