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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 and provides regulatory and market trend updates.                                                                                                                                          
 •Conducts competitive reviews as directed by the Committee and provides input on specific compensation recommendations for our CEO and other members of the executive leadership team, including the NEOs.                                                                                  
 •Participates in Committee meetings, including regular discussions with the Committee, without management present, to ensure impartiality on certain decisions.                                                                                                                             
 •In April 2024, the Committee reviewed the independence of Pay Governance in light of SEC rules and NYSE listing standards regarding compensation consultants and concluded that Pay Governance was independent and that its work for the Committee does not raise any conﬂict of interest. |
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| •Ratifies the Committee's compensation recommendation for the CEO.                                                                                                                                                                     |     | •Provides feedback on our executive compensation programs during stockholder outreach and engagement efforts. See the section titled "Say-on-Pay Vote Results and Stockholder Engagement" above for more information on these efforts in 2024.                                              |

### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION PLANNING AND EVALUATION
The Committee routinely works with its compensation advisor to evaluate the competitiveness of our executive compensation programs. When setting annual compensation for our NEOs, the Committee balances the current state of the business with future goals of the Company. The Committee, with assistance from Pay Governance, considers peer company pay practices for comparable positions, NEO experience, tenure, scope of responsibility and performance, internal pay alignment, historical compensation, and succession planning.

#### 42TreeHouse Foods, Inc.2025 Proxy Statement
| Compensation Discussion & Analysis |

The primary data used to evaluate our competitiveness is a publicly traded company peer group of similarly sized companies in our industry with whom we compete for executive talent (the “Peer Group”). We supplement this information with general industry survey data to benchmark those roles for which proxy data is unavailable and to ensure we are also evaluating pay practices within the general industry competitive market. For 2024, the Committee considered both Peer Group and general industry survey data in evaluating the competitiveness of our executive compensation program.

### HOW WE SELECT OUR COMPENSATION PEER GROUP
The private label food manufacturing business is largely dominated by non-publicly traded companies, making the construct of an appropriate peer group complex. Additionally, we compete for talent with branded food companies, which further exacerbates the development of an appropriate peer group. Each year, the peer group is evaluated with the assistance of Pay Governance. For 2024