Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059273
Chunk: 106

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 106
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holders, including stockholders with short-term special interests, could call one or more special meetings that could result in unnecessary financial expense and disruption to our business. Our current governance structure and policies implement the goal of accountability to stockholders without the risks outlined above to the Company and its stockholders associated with removing the one-yearholding period required for stockholders to meet ownership threshold necessary to call a special meeting. The Company has implemented a comprehensive package of corporate governance practices and policies that enable stockholders to hold the Board accountable and, where necessary, take quick action to support their interests, including: (i) the annual election of directors; (ii) majority vote standard for the election of directors in uncontested elections; (iii) independent board except for CEO (and our former CEO after our previously announced CEO transition); (iv) independent Lead Director; (v) proxy access for our stockholders; (vi) special meeting right; (vii) no supermajority voting provisions; (viii) no “poison pill”; and (ix) consistent engagement with our stockholders. We believe that this comprehensive package of governance practices and policies, including our existing special meeting right, provides strong stockholder protections without needing to remove the one-yearholding period requirement for stockholders to meet the ownership threshold necessary to call a special meeting, as requested by the proposal. For these reasons, your Board of Directors unanimously recommends that stockholders vote AGAINST the proposal.

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| PROPOSAL 4 |

Required Vote; Recommendation Only The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of shares of the Company’s common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter is required to approve this Proposal 4 to recommend that the Board take the requested action. Stockholders should be aware that this stockholder proposal is simply a request that the Board take the action stated in the proposal. Approval of this proposal may not result in the requested action being taken by the Board, and therefore, its approval would not effectuate the actions requested by the proposal.

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