Company: JOUT
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-000715
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Company: JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
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 we encourage you to submit your proxy through the Internet or by mail. This will ensure that your shares are represented at the meeting. Even if you submit a proxy, you may revoke it at any time before it is voted. If you attend the meeting and wish to vote online during the virtual meeting, you will be able to do so using the 16-digit control number included on your Notice of Annual Meeting or Proxy Card or the instructions that accompanied your proxy materials. We appreciate your continued support of our Company.

| Sincerely                |
| HELEN P. JOHNSON-LEIPOLD |
| Chairman of the Board    |

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JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC. 555 MAIN STREET RACINE, WISCONSIN 53403 NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 27, 2025 AS A VIRTUAL MEETING

| Date:                                      
 February 27, 2025                          
 Time:                                      
 8:00 a.m., central standard time           
 Place:                                     
 www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/JOUT2025 
 Record Date:                               
 December 19, 2024                          |     | Agenda:                                                                                                                                                              
 (1)To elect nine directors to serve for the ensuing year.                                                                                                            
 (2)To ratify the appointment of RSM US LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as auditors of the Company for its fiscal year ending October 3, 2025. 
 (3)To approve a non-binding advisory proposal on executive compensation.                                                                                             
 (4)To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.                                               |

Shareholders of record at the close of business on Thursday, December 19, 2024, will be entitled to notice of and to vote at the annual meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof. Holders of Class A common stock, voting as a separate class, are entitled to elect three directors and holders of Class B common stock, voting as a separate class, are entitled to elect the remaining directors. The holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock, voting together, as a single class, are entitled to vote on the proposal to ratify the appointment of RSM US LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year, the non-binding advisory proposal on executive compensation, and to transact such other business as may properly