Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059273
Chunk: 23

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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 of such other company’s consolidated gross revenues; or |

| • |     | A director’s service as an executive officer of a charitable organization that received annual contributions from the Company that have not exceeded the greater of $1 million or two percent of |

| 22 |     | Church & Dwight Co.  | 2025 Proxy Statement |

| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

| such charitable organization’s annual gross revenues in any of such charitable organization’s last three fiscal years. |

Our Board of Directors reviewed and analyzed the independence of each nominee for director in January 2025 to determine whether any particular relationship or transaction involving any director, or any director’s affiliates or immediate family members, was inconsistent with a determination that the director is independent for purposes of serving on our Board of Directors and its committees. During this review, our Board considered whether there were any transactions or relationships between each director nominee or their affiliates and family members and Church & Dwight. As a result of this review, our Board affirmatively determined that each of Bradlen S. Cashaw, Bradley C. Irwin, Penry W. Price, Susan G. Saideman, Ravichandra K. Saligram, Robert K. Shearer, Michael R. Smith, Janet S. Vergis, Arthur B. Winkleblack and Laurie J. Yoler is independent within the meaning of the NYSE listing standards and under the categorical standards described in the Corporate Governance Guidelines. Mr. Farrell, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Dierker, our incoming President and Chief Executive Officer, are not independent directors. The Board has appointed Mr. Saligram as Board Chairman effective as of the close of business on the Effective Date, contingent upon his reelection to the Board at the Annual Meeting, replacing Mr. Farrell. Mr. Saligram, one of our independent directors, will continue in his role as a member of the Compensation & Human Capital and Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committees of the Board. Our Board of Directors has further determined that each of the members of the Audit Committee, Compensation & Human Capital Committee, and Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee is independent within the meaning of the NYSE listing standards, and that the members of the Audit Committee and the Compensation & Human Capital Committee meet the additional independence requirements of the NYSE listing standards applicable to audit committee members and compensation committee members, respectively. In addition, the members of the Compensation & Human Capital Committee are “non-employeedirectors” as defined under