Company: CLX
Filing Date: 2025-10-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001552781-25-000311
Chunk: 82

Company: CLOROX CO /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-10-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 82
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 or outlook it may provide from time to time, are 
 based;                                                                                    |

| • | risks                                                                                         
 related to the Company’s reliance on third-party service providers, including inability       
 to meet cost savings or efficiencies, business or systems disruptions, and other liabilities, 
 including legal or regulatory risk;                                                           |

| • | environmental                                                                                  
 matters, including costs associated with the remediation and monitoring of past contamination, 
 and possible increases in costs resulting from actions by relevant                             
 regulators, and the handling and/or transportation of hazardous substances;                    |

| • | the                                                                                             
 Company’s ability to effectively utilize, assert and defend its intellectual property           
 rights, and any infringement or claimed infringement by the Company of third-party intellectual 
 property rights;                                                                                |

| • | the                                                                                                                       
 effect of the Company’s indebtedness and credit rating on its business operations and                                     
 financial results and                                                                                                     
 the Company’s ability to access capital markets and other funding sources, as well as the cost of capital to the Company; |

| • | the                                                                                   
 Company’s ability to pay and declare dividends or repurchase its stock in the future; 
 and                                                                                   |

| • | the                                        
 impacts of potential stockholder activism. |

The Company’s forward-looking statements in this Report are based on management’s current views, beliefs, assumptions and expectations regarding future events and speak only as of the date of this Report. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by the federal securities laws. In this Report, unless the context requires otherwise, the terms “the Company,” “Clorox,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to The Clorox Company and its subsidiaries.

| The                                              
 Clorox Company 2025 Proxy Statement > Appendix A | A-18 |

MANAGEMENT’S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the Company’s financial statements for external reporting in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may