Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059273
Chunk: 49

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 49
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 retainer received by any director who is not a committee chair, the Lead Director or the Chairman). The annual retainer was $120,000 for 2024 and the dollar value of shares required to be held by our directors who have served five or more years was $600,000 as of December 31, 2024. The calculation of ownership includes:

| • |     | shares or RSUs owned by the director (or members of his or her immediate family residing in the same household); |

| • |     | notional shares held for the account of the director in the Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors; and |

| • |     | shares held in a trust for which a director has shared voting or investment power. |

| 40 |     | Church & Dwight Co.  | 2025 Proxy Statement |

| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

No portion of the value of stock options are taken into account towards the directors stock ownership guidelines (added by an amendment on April 27, 2022 (the “Amendment Date”)). Until a non-employeedirector satisfies his or her stock ownership requirement, the director will be required to hold 50 percent of all shares of our common stock received upon the exercise of stock options, grants of stock, or upon lapse of the restrictions on restricted stock (in each case, net of any shares utilized to pay for the exercise price of an option and/or to satisfy tax withholding obligations). All of our non-employeedirectors are on track to meet their stock ownership guidelines within five years of the later of the Amendment Date or the date on which they joined the Board. OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Listed below are the names, ages and positions held by each of our current executive officers and our Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer.

| Name                    |     | Age |    |     | Position                                                                           |
| Brian Buchert           |     |     | 51 |     | Executive Vice President of Strategy, M&A and Business Partnerships                |
| Patrick D. de Maynadier |     |     | 64 |     | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary                            |
| Richard A. Dierker      |     |     | 45 |     | Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Operations* |
| Matthew T. Farrell      |     |     | 68 |     | President and Chief Executive Officer*                                             |
| Kevin Gokey             |     |     | 63 |