Company: AVD
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-079166
Chunk: 65

Company: AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 65
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encing in July 2024, Mr. Bassett resumed his consultancy in support of the OCEO, during which he was paid a flat rate of $29,200 per month and, like other members of the OCEO, received a transformation benefit in the amount of $125,000 for each of the third and fourth quarters of 2024. There were no other related party transactions during fiscal year 2024, nor are any such transactions in existence or currently proposed for 2025.

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COMMUNICATIONS

Communications to the Board

All communications to the Board or any individual director must be in writing and addressed to them c/o American Vanguard Corporation, Attn: Corporate Secretary, 4695 MacArthur Court, Suite 1200, Newport Beach, California 92660.

Proposals for Submission at Next Annual Meeting

Any stockholder who intends to present a director nomination or other proposal at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders must send the proposal to: American Vanguard Corporation, Attn: Corporate Secretary, 4695 MacArthur Court, Suite 1200, Newport Beach, California 92660. The timing and procedure for any such submission are described on pages 3 and 4 hereof.

DELINQUENT SECTION 16(A) REPORTS

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and SEC rules require our directors, executive officers and persons who own more than 10% of any class of our common stock to file reports of their ownership and changes in ownership of our common stock with the SEC. Based solely on our review of the reports filed with the SEC and written representations from such reporting persons, we determined that all Section 16 reports were timely filed in fiscal 2020 by our directors, executive officers and beneficial owners of more than 10% of any class of our common stock, except for one filing by each of Andrew Naughton and Steven Macicek that each reported one transaction on an untimely basis, one filing by Eric Wintemute that reported five transactions on an untimely basis, and one filing by Keith Rosenbloom that reported three transactions on an untimely basis.[1]

[1]See Mr. Naughton’s Form 4 filed on 01/25/24, Mr. Macicek’s Form 4 filed on 04/11/24, Mr. Wintemute’s Form 4 filed on 09/03/24, and Mr. Rosen