Company: KRO
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001257640-25-000009
Chunk: 9

Company: KRONOS WORLDWIDE INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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Q: Who will pay for the cost of soliciting the proxies?

| A: | We will pay all expenses related to the solicitation, including charges for preparing, printing, assembling and distributing all materials delivered to stockholders. In addition to the solicitation by mail, our directors, officers and regular employees may solicit proxies by telephone or in person for which such persons will receive no additional compensation. Upon request, we will reimburse brokerage firms or other nominees for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in distributing proxy materials and voting instruction forms to the beneficial owners of our common stock that hold such stock in accounts with such entities. |

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CONTROLLING STOCKHOLDERS Valhi and NLKW are the direct holders of approximately 50.4% and 30.6%, respectively, of the outstanding shares of our common stock as of the record date. Together, Valhi and NLKW own approximately 81.0% of the outstanding shares of our common stock. Valhi is the direct holder of approximately 82.7% of the outstanding shares of NL common stock as of the record date. Each of Valhi and NLKW has indicated its intention to have its shares of our common stock represented at the meeting and to vote such shares FOR the election of each of the director nominees named in this proxy statement and FOR proposal 2 (Say-on-Pay). If Valhi alone attends the meeting in person or by proxy and votes as indicated, the meeting will have a quorum present and the stockholders will elect all of the nominees named in this proxy statement to the board of directors and approve proposal 2. SECURITY OWNERSHIP Ownership of Kronos Worldwide. The following table and footnotes set forth as of the record date the beneficial ownership, as defined by regulations of the SEC, of our common stock held by each individual, entity or group known to us to own beneficially more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock, each of our directors, each of the named executive officers, and all of our current directors and executive officers as a group. See footnotes 3 and 4 below for information concerning the relationships of certain individuals and entities that may be deemed to own indirectly and beneficially more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock. All information is taken from or based upon ownership filings made by such individuals or entities with the SEC or upon information provided by such individuals or entities.

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