Company: CRWS
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-021381
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Company: CROWN CRAFTS INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: DEF 14A
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| • | To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers (“Proposal 2”); |

| • | To vote, on a non-binding advisory basis, on the frequency of future advisory votes on the compensation of our named executive officers. |

In addition to the above matters, we will transact any other business that may properly come before the Annual Meeting. As of the date of this Proxy Statement, the Board knows of no other matters that will be brought before the Annual Meeting. However, if other matters are properly presented at the Annual Meeting, then the persons named as proxies will vote in their discretion with respect to those matters.

Who may vote at the Annual Meeting?

You may vote if you are a stockholder of record of the Common Stock as of the close of business on June 13, 2025, the record date for the Annual Meeting (the “Record Date”). As of the Record Date, there were 10,567,543 shares of Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, held by 159 holders of record.

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If you are a beneficial owner of the Common Stock as of the close of business on the Record Date, then you will receive voting instructions from the brokerage firm, bank or other nominee that holds your shares as the holder of record. You must follow the voting instructions of the holder of record in order for your shares to be voted.

As of the Record Date, our directors and executive officers as a group beneficially owned, and were entitled to vote, 1,245,073 shares of Common Stock, or approximately 11.6% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock on that date.

What is the difference between holding shares as a stockholder of record and as a beneficial owner?

Most of our stockholders hold their shares in an account at a brokerage firm, bank or other nominee holder, rather than holding shares in their own name. There are some distinctions between shares held of record and those owned beneficially.

Stockholder of Record. If, on the Record Date, your shares were registered directly in your name with our transfer agent, Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. (“Broadridge”), then you are a “stockholder of record” who may vote at the Annual Meeting, and we are providing these proxy materials directly to you.

Beneficial Owner. If, on the Record Date, your shares were held in an account at a brokerage firm, bank or other nominee holder