Company: CLX
Filing Date: 2025-06-26
Form Type: 11-K
Source: 0001206774-25-000432
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Company: CLOROX CO /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-06-26
Form: 11-K
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See accompanying notes to the financial statements.

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<div align='center'>The Clorox Company 401(k) Plan

Notes to Financial Statements</div>

1. Description of the Plan

The following description of The Clorox Company 401(k) Plan (the “Plan”) provides only general information. Participants should refer to the Plan document for a more complete description of the Plan’s provisions.

General

The Plan is a defined contribution plan covering substantially all employees of The Clorox Company and its affiliated companies that have adopted the Plan (“Participating Company”) (collectively referred to as “Company”). The following employees are not covered by the Plan: (i) leased employees (contractors), (ii) nonresident aliens with no United States of America source of income, (iii) employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, unless such coverage is specified in the written agreement, (iv) employees sent to a Participating Company by an international subsidiary to participate in a training or development program sponsored by the Participating Company, and (v) employees who are residents of Puerto Rico or who perform services for a Participating Company primarily in Puerto Rico and are participants of The Clorox Company Employee Retirement Investment Plan for Puerto Rico. Participants are eligible to participate on the first day of employment with the Company. The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”).

The Company maintains a non-leveraged employee stock ownership plan (the “ESOP”) within the meaning of Section 4975(e)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The ESOP is maintained as part of the Plan and is designed to invest in the Company’s common stock. If elected, participants can receive dividends paid directly to them in cash. No participant shall be permitted to direct more than 5% of the contributions to be made to the Plan on their behalf in the ESOP fund; and no participant shall be permitted to effect a transfer or exchange from another investment fund into the ESOP fund if the portion of the participant’s account invested in the ESOP fund would exceed 5% of their account balance immediately after such transfer or exchange.

The Employee Benefits Committee (the “Committee”) administers the Plan. The Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company and Vanguard Group, Inc. (“Vanguard”) are the Plan’s trustee and recordkeeper, respectively.

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