Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000100
Chunk: 4

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 4
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 of record and you wish to vote at the Annual Meeting, then you must obtain from the record holder a proxy issued in your name. For the convenience of stockholders, we have made it easy for you to vote via a secure internet link, as further described below.

Our board of directors has fixed the close of business on May 30, 2025 as the record date for determination of stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof. Only stockholders of record at the close of business on that date will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof. The list of stockholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting will be available for inspection at our principal executive offices, beginning on the earlier of ten days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting or two business days after the date this notice is provided to stockholders and continuing through the Annual Meeting, and any adjournments thereof. The list will also be available for inspection at the Annual Meeting.

Please review the proxy statement accompanying this notice for more complete information regarding the matters to be considered at the Annual Meeting. Please read the accompanying proxy statement and its annexes carefully and in their entirety.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

#### Jennifer D.H. Stiefel

#### President and Secretary
Gig Harbor, Washington
June [9], 2025

Table of Contents

| Questions and Answers                                             |     |  1 |
| Corporate Governance                                              |     |  6 |
| Corporate Governance Guidelines                                   |     |  6 |
| Code of Conduct and Business Ethics                               |     |  7 |
| Director Independence                                             |     |  7 |
| Risk Oversight                                                    |     |  7 |
| Communications with Directors                                     |     |  8 |
| Board Qualifications                                              |     |  8 |
| Diversity of the Board                                            |     |  8 |
| Director Nominations                                              |     |  9 |
| Attendance at Annual Meeting                                      |     |  9 |
| Related-Party Transaction Policy                                  |     |  9 |
| Board Leadership Structure                                        |     |  9 |
| Committees of the Board                                           |     | 10 |
| Director Compensation                                             |     | 11 |
| Director Compensation Table                                       |     | 12 |
| Ownership of Common Stock                                         |     | 13 |
| Certain Beneficial Owners and