Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
Chunk: 23

Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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ed PSUs in calculating guideline attainment levels.                                                                                                                                |
|       | Prohibition on Hedging and Pledging, Stock Option Repricing and Liberal Share Recycling | Company policy prohibits executive officers and directors from hedging or pledging Company stock. Re-pricing of underwater stock options is prohibited without stockholder approval. Shares that are surrendered or withheld to pay an award's exercise price or tax withholding cannot be added back to the shares available under the Incentive Plan. Likewise, any shares reacquired by the Company upon the exercise of stock options will not be added to the pool of available shares under the Incentive Plan. |

| 2024 Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation ("Say-on-Pay") Vote                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| At the 2024 annual meeting of stockholders, 97.8 percent of the votes cast approved a non-binding, advisory vote on the 2023 compensation of our named executive officers disclosed in our annual proxy statement filed in 2024. The Compensation and Human Capital Committee believes this result affirms our stockholders’ support of the Company’s approach to executive compensation.However, the Company and the Compensation and Human Capital Committee will continue to review and update the Company's executive compensation programs to reflect changes in business and industry conditions. The Compensation and Human Capital Committee will also continue to consider the outcome of our stockholders’ annual advisory votes on executive compensation and other important inputs from our stockholders  when making future compensation decisions for our named executive officers. |

#### ACCO BRANDS| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT35
Discussion and Analysis

Executive Compensation Philosophy

Our executive compensation philosophy is to target each compensation component at approximately the median of similarly situated executives of companies in our Peer Group, with discretion to adjust where individual experience, impact, performance and/or other factors are appropriate. We are committed to providing competitive compensation programs that are designed to:

Align with stockholder interests by weighting a substantial portion of total compensation toward at-risk performance-based incentives, which encourage the creation of long-term stockholder value through the achievement of the Company’s financial and strategic objectives. In addition, a significant portion of our executive compensation is equity based, which incents our executive officers to increase share price thereby directly benefiting our stockholders.

Drive business strategy and pay for performance by linking incentive awards that balance both short-term and long-term financial goals and drive achievement of the Company’s business objectives by tying compensation to the accomplishments of those objectives.

Attract and retain top talent who can contribute significantly to the achievement of