Company: TJX
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000109198-25-000024
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Company: TJX COMPANIES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: DEF 14A
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 material non-public information. The Insider Trading Policyand the Pre-Clearance Trading Policy, copies of which can be found as exhibits to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2025, govern the purchase, sale, and/or other dispositions of our securities by TJX and our officers, directors, Associates, and other covered persons. We believe our Insider Trading Policy is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, as well as the NYSE listing standards applicable to us.

#### Hedging and Pledging Prohibitions
The Insider Trading Policy also prohibits our directors, executive officers, and other designated Associates from engaging in hedging or pledging transactions (including holding shares in margin accounts) with respect to TJX stock.

#### 22The TJX Companies, Inc.

#### Corporate Governance

#### Board Service Policies
We believe it is important for our directors to dedicate sufficient time and efforts to our Company and have interests aligned with our shareholders. We require nominees to be able to devote the necessary time and attention to the duties of a director, prepare for and attend meetings, and tend to other director responsibilities. We have a number of guidelines and policies relating to Board service in our Corporate Governance Principles and other governance documents, including the following:

• Time Commitment Criteria for Outside Boards. Directors who are CEOs of public companies should not serve on more than one additional public company board besides the company of which they are CEO, and no director should serve on more than three public company boards in addition to the TJX Board (four total). Members of the Audit and Finance Committee should not serve on the audit committee of more than two other public companies.

• Change in Principal Occupation. When a director’s principal occupation or business association changes during their tenure as a director, the director is required to tender their resignation from the Board, and the Corporate Governance Committee will recommend to the Board any action to be taken on the resignation.

• Board and Committee Meeting Attendance. Directors are expected to attend at least 75% of the meetings of the Board and any Committees of which they are a member. In addition, the Board has a general practice of encouraging directors to attend all Committee meetings, regardless of committee membership.

• Annual Meeting Attendance. It is our policy that all directors standing for reelection are expected to attend the annual meeting of shareholders. All of our directors standing for reelection at the 2024 Annual Meeting were in attendance.

### TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PERSONS
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