Company: TR
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-003853
Chunk: 3

Company: TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 3
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 receiving the greatest number of votes will be elected to serve as directors. Withholding authority to vote for a director(s) and non-votes with respect to the election of directors will not affect the outcome of the election of directors. With respect to the ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for 2025, the number of votes cast for the proposal must exceed the number of votes cast against for it to be approved. If a quorum is present, non-votes and abstentions will not affect the outcome of this matter.

#### PROPOSAL 1

### ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
It is the intention of the persons named in the accompanying proxy to vote for the election of each of the five persons named in the table below as a director of the Company to serve until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. All of such nominees are now directors of the Company, having been previously elected as directors by the shareholders of the Company or named to the Board subsequent to the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. In the event any of the nominees, all of whom have expressed an intention to serve if elected, fail to stand for election, the persons named in the proxy presently intend to vote for a substitute nominee designated by the Board of Directors. The information concerning the nominees and their shareholdings has been furnished by them to the Company.

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The following table sets forth information with respect to the five nominees for election as directors:

| ​                                                 | ​ | ​ | ​                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Name, Age and Other Positions,                    
 if any, with Company                              | ​ |   | Period Served As Director and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 Business Experience During Past 5 Years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Ellen R. Gordon, 93,                              
 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer | ​ | ​ | Director since 1969; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since January, 2015; President and Chief Operating Officer since 1978; Director and Vice-President of HDI Investment Corp., a family investment company. Mrs. Gordon brings to the Board an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the Company and comprehensive industry knowledge from her many years of experience in the confectionery industry. Mrs. Gordon has also served extensively on the boards of several nationally recognized graduate business and medical schools and on the board of a large public company where she