Company: THS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001320695-25-000012
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Company: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: PRE 14A
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 Policy makes it clear that the Company’s employees (including its executive officers) and members of the Board may not engage in short sales, hedging or similar transactions designed to decrease the risk associated with holding the Company’s securities and that these persons may not engage in transactions in derivative securities based on or which derive value in relation to the Company’s equity or performance (such as, but not limited to, put and call options, warrants, stock appreciation rights and similar rights whose value is derived from the value of any Company security), other than derivatives granted pursuant to Company benefit plans. We also prohibit holding Company stock in a margin account or pledging Company securities as collateral for a loan. Additionally, during trading black out periods, certain officers, directors, and other applicable members of management may not engage in any transactions in the Company's securities. The full text copy of our Insider Trading Policy can be found in Exhibit 19 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

#### Equity Grant Practices
The Compensation Committee generally grants annual equity awards in the first quarterof each year during an open trading window under our Insider Trading Policy. For any new hire grants or any off-cycle promotional awards are generally processed on the first business day of the following month.The Company may vary these practices in the future. During 2024, the Compensation Committee did not take material nonpublic information into accountwhen determining the timing and terms of equity awards, and the Company did not time the disclosure of material nonpublic information for the purpose of affecting the value of executive compensation.No stock options or similar awards were granted during 2024.

#### Stock Ownership Requirements
To ensure strong alignment of our senior management with the interests of our stockholders, the Company maintains stock ownership guidelines for our senior executives, including each of our NEOs. The Committee reviews compliance with the ownership guidelines annually.

Our guidelines provide that members of our executive team must meet, within ﬁve years of becoming subject to the applicable ownership requirement, speciﬁed stock ownership levels equal to a multiple of their annual base salary. If the ownership requirement is not satisﬁed within the five-year period, the executive is required to hold at least 50% of net shares acquired under equity-based awards until the stock ownership guidelines are met. Shares of stock owned outright or through a trust and unvested time-based RSUs count towards fulﬁllment of the guidelines. Unearned performance-based awards and unexercised stock options do not count