Company: GPI
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001031203-25-000018
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Company: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: PRE 14A
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 Compensation Overview

#### HOW WE ALIGN PAY FOR PERFORMANCE
Our compensation program is designed to, among other things, align our executives’ performance with the interests of our shareholders.

The primary goal of the Compensation & Human Resources (“CHR”) Committee of the Board is to reward and recognize strong financial and operating performance and promote effective strategic leadership to drive long-term shareholder value. This pay-for-performance philosophy is embedded into certain key principles that underpin how the CHR Committee approaches the design of our executive compensation program.

How does our executive compensation program align pay with performance?

• Performance Metrics. We use performance metrics and objectives that recognize and reward contributions that drive shareholder value creation.

• “At-Risk” Compensation. The largest portion of compensation for our Named Executive Officers (“NEOs”) is “at-risk” compensation—annual and long-term incentive awards that are contingent on Company performance on our key metrics and objectives, in addition to our stock price performance.

#### 2024 PAY DECISIONS
In making annual pay decisions, the CHR Committee focuses primarily on “total direct compensation,” which includes three principal elements: base salaries, annual cash incentives and long-term incentives (“LTI”). See page 33for details.

The table below shows the 2024 total direct compensation of our NEOs.

|                       |     | Base Salary($K) |       |     | Annual Incentive($K) |       |     | LTI($K)(1) |       |     | Total($K) |       |
| Daryl A. Kenningham   |     |                 | 1,250 |     |                      | 1,844 |     |            | 5,000 |     |           | 8,094 |
| Daniel J. McHenry     |     |                 |   780 |     |                      |   685 |     |            | 1,150 |     |           | 2,615 |
| Gillian A. Hobson     |     |                 |   640 |     |                      |   562 |     |            | 1,000 |     |           | 2,202 |
| Peter C. DeLongchamps |     |                 |   598 |     |                      |   525 |     |        750 |       |     |           | 1,873 |
| Michael D. Jones(2)   |     |                 |   546 |     |                      |   479 |     |        650 |       |     |