Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-08-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000134
Chunk: 14

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-18
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 14
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 rules, if you intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than our nominees for the 2026 annual meeting, you must include in your notice the information required by Rule 14a-19 of the Exchange Act.

| Special Meeting Proxy Statement |     | 6 |     | Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. |

Ownership of Common Stock

### Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
The following table sets forth certain information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of July 23, 2025, the Record Date for the Special Meeting, by:

• each person known by us to be a beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding common stock;

• each of our directors and director nominees;

• each of our named executive officers; and

• all directors and executive officers as a group.

The amounts and percentages of common stock beneficially owned are reported based on regulations of the SEC governing the determination of beneficial ownership of securities. Under the rules of the SEC, a person is deemed to be a “beneficial owner” of a security if that person has or shares “voting power,” which includes the power to vote or to direct the voting of such security, or “investment power,” which includes the power to dispose of or to direct the disposition of such security. A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner of any securities of which that person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership within 60 days after July 23, 2025. Under these rules, more than one person may be deemed a beneficial owner of the same securities, and a person may be deemed a beneficial owner of securities as to which he has no economic interest. Except as indicated by footnote, to our knowledge, the persons named in the table below have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock shown as beneficially owned by them. We are not aware of any of our stockholders that, as of July 23, 2025, beneficially owned more than 5% of our common stock.

In the table below, the beneficial ownership of our common stock is 15,401,989 shares of common stock outstanding as of July 23, 2025. Unless otherwise noted below, the address of the persons listed on the table is c/o Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc., 9668 Bujacich Road, Gig Harbor, Washington 98332.

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