Company: JOUT
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-000715
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Company: JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
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| PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY |

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION HIGHLIGHTS

| ✔ |     | Members of Compensation Committee are Independent           |
| ✔ |     | Pay for Performance                                         |
| ✔ |     | No Tax Gross-up for Compensation Programs                   |
| ✔ |     | Clawback Policy                                             |
| ✔ |     | No Employment Agreements                                    |
| ✔ |     | No Severance or Termination Pay to Named Executive Officers |

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JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC. 555 Main Street Racine, Wisconsin 53403 PROXY STATEMENT For The 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders To Be Held Virtually On February 27, 2025 Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the 2025 Virtual Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on February 27, 2025: The Notice of Annual Meeting, this Proxy Statement and the Accompanying Annual Report on Form 10-K are Available at www.proxyvote.com This Proxy Statement, which is first being mailed on or about January 10, 2025, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 19, 2024, is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Directors of Johnson Outdoors Inc. (the “Company”), for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be used at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Company to be held virtually on Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 8:00 a.m., central standard time, at the following weblink: www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/JOUT2025 and at any adjournment or postponement thereof (the “Annual Meeting”). You may vote in any of the following ways:

| 1) | attend the Annual Meeting virtually and vote online during the meeting using your 16-digit control number included on your Notice of Annual Meeting or Proxy Card or the instructions that accompanied your proxy materials.If you are not a stockholder of record but hold shares as a beneficial owner in street name, you may be required to provide proof of beneficial ownership, such as your most recent account statement. If you do not comply with the procedures, you will not be admitted to, or able to participate in, the virtual Annual Meeting; |

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