Company: ATLN
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001605888-25-000017
Chunk: 34

Company: ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 34
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 ended December 31, 2024. Our audit committee has determined that the services provided by RBSM are compatible with maintaining the independence of RBSM as our independent registered public accounting firm.

### APPROVAL REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDATION
The affirmative vote of the holders of record of a majority in voting interest of the shares of stock entitled to vote for this Proposal 4 at the Annual Meeting, present in person or by proxy, is required for approval of this Proposal.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE RATIFICATION THE APPOINTMENT OF THE COMPANY’S INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM.

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#### PROPOSAL 5
<div align='center'>APPROVAL OF THE COMPANY’S 2025 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN</div>

#### Proposal
The Board believes that stock-based incentive awards play an important role in our success by encouraging and enabling our officers, employees, non-employee directors and consultants upon whose judgment, initiative and efforts we largely depend for the successful conduct of our business to acquire or increase an equity interest in our company.

On April 3, 2025, the Board adopted, subject to stockholder approval, the Atlantic International Corp. 2025 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “Incentive Plan”). The Plan is designed to enable the flexibility to grant equity awards to our officers, employees, non-employee directors and consultants and to ensure that we can continue to grant equity awards to eligible recipients at levels determined to be appropriate by the Board and/or the Compensation Committee. A copy of the Plan is attached as Exhibit A to this Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

The Board believes that providing such persons with a direct stake in our company will have the effect of strengthening their commitment to the success of the Company and stimulating their efforts on behalf of the Company, assisting the Company and its Subsidiaries in attracting new employees, officers and consultants and retaining existing employees and consultants, optimizing the profitability and growth of the Company and its subsidiaries through incentives which are consistent with the Company’s goals, proving the grantees with an incentive for excellence in individual performance, promoting teamwork among employees, consultants and non-employee directors, attracting and retaining highly qualified persons to serve as non-employee directors and to promote ownership by such non-employee directors of a greater proprietary interest in the Company, thereby aligning their interests more closely with the interests of the Company