Company: THS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001320695-25-000012
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Company: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: PRE 14A
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’s Corporate Governance Guidelines. The Board met seven times in 2024. Each current director of our Board attended at least 75% of the aggregate of the meetings of the Board and the committee(s) on which they served during 2024.

#### Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Our directors are expected to make every effort to attend the Company’s Annual Meeting, and all of them that served as directors at the time of the meeting did so in 2024. The Company believes that annual meetings provide an opportunity for stockholders to communicate with directors. It is the Board’s policy that all of our directors attend the Annual Meeting, absent exceptional cause.

#### Executive Sessions
The independent directors meet in executive session at least quarterly to discuss, among other matters, the performance of the Company and its executives. The independent directors will meet in executive session at other times at the request of any independent director. Absent unusual circumstances, these sessions shall be held in conjunction with regular Board meetings. Our Lead Independent Director presides at these sessions.

#### Annual Board and Committee Evaluations
The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee oversees the annual evaluation process for the Board and each of its committees. These evaluations are designed to assess whether the Board or the respective committee are functioning effectively and also to provide a mechanism for the Board or the respective committee to identify potential areas for improvement. Once completed, the results of the evaluations and any appropriate recommendations or action plans are discussed among the members of the Board and each of its committees. From time to time, our Board evaluation process includes an external evaluator.

#### Director Orientation and Continuing Education
The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is tasked with developing and overseeing a Company orientation program for new directors and a continuing education program for current directors, periodically reviewing these programs and updating them as necessary. As such, the Board and the Company’s management conduct a mandatory orientation program for new directors. The orientation program

#### 2025 Proxy StatementTreeHouse Foods, Inc.17
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includes presentations by management to familiarize new directors with, among other things, the Company’s principal operational and financial objectives, strategies and plans; results of operations and financial condition of the Company and of significant subsidiaries; the relative standing of the business of the Company and vis-à-vis competitors; risk management processes and findings; compliance programs, relevant policies and procedures; fiduciary duties; and introductions to the Company's principal officers, internal and independent auditors, its General Counsel, and outside advisors.

Further, the Company encourages board education