Company: THS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001320695-25-000012
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Company: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: PRE 14A
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 long-term and short-term incentive awards are selected based on an objective of incentivizing our NEOs to increase the value of our enterprise for our stockholders. The most important financial performance measures used by the Company to link compensation actually paid to the Company’s NEOs for the most recently completed fiscal year to the Company’s performance are as follows:

• Adjusted EBITDA from Continuing Operations

• Gross Margin

• Net Sales Growth

• Return on Invested Capital

• Total Organic Revenue Growth

• Operating Net Income

• Cash Flow Pre-Financing

### ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THE PAY VERSUS PERFORMANCE TABLE
As described in greater detail in “Compensation Discussion & Analysis,” the Company’s executive compensation program reflects a pay-for-performance philosophy. While the Company utilizes several performance measures to align executive compensation with Company performance, all of those Company measures are not presented in the Pay Versus Performance table above. Moreover, the Company generally seeks to incentivize long-term performance, and therefore does not specifically align the Company’s performance measures with

#### 70TreeHouse Foods, Inc.2025 Proxy Statement
| Named Executive Officer Compensation |

compensation that is actually paid (as computed in accordance with SEC rules) for a particular year. In accordance with SEC rules, the Company is providing the following illustrations of the relationships between information presented in the Pay Versus Performance table above.

The following graph compares the compensation actually paid to our CEO, the average of the compensation actually paid to our remaining NEOs and the cumulative total stockholders' return on our common units with the cumulative total return of the S&P Food & Beverage Select Index. The graph assumes an investment of $100 on December 31, 2019 in each of TreeHouse Foods’ common stock and the stock comprising the S&P Food & Beverage Select Index.

<div align='center'>TreeHouse Foods & S&P Food & Beverage Select Index TSR vs. Compensation Actually Paid</div>

The following graph compares the compensation actually paid to our CEO and the average of the compensation actually paid to our remaining NEOs with net income (loss).

<div align='center'>TreeHouse Foods Net Income (Loss) and Net Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations (1) vs. Compensation Actually Paid</div>

(1) We have included Net income (loss) from Continuing Operations as supplemental information as it better demonstrates alignment between compensation actually paid and performance when compared to Net income (loss) as presented in the table above primarily due to the fact that the Company recognized a significant