Company: QXO-PB
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001140361-25-014566
Chunk: 67

Company: QXO, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: 424B5
Chunk 67
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 work at Beacon.

Beacon promotes a culture of charitable support and giving back to its neighbors. In 2024, Beacon supported communities where it operates through a national partnership with Rebuilding Together, the leading national nonprofit with a vision to ensure safe homes and communities for everyone. In addition, Beacon named ten veteran winners in its fifth annual Beacon of Hope contest that was created to give back to distinguished military veterans and veteran organizations by providing roof replacements or repairs. To date, the contest has helped deliver new or repaired roofs to 50 former service members facing adversity in the years following their military service. In addition, Beacon expanded its partnership with K-9’s for Warriors to sponsor 16 service dogs for Veterans and were named the charity’s Partner of the Year.

As of December 31, 2024, Beacon had 8,068 active employees. Beacon has 351 employees that are represented by labor unions and there are no material outstanding labor disputes.

Environment

Beacon’s greatest direct impact on the environment is through fleet emissions, and Beacon has committed to using the Beacon OTC® Network strategy to minimize fuel use intensity. The Beacon OTC® Network focuses on transforming multi-branch markets into a holistic market model that optimizes customer deliveries by shipping from the closest branch to the customer’s delivery address. Further, Beacon continually invests in modernizing its fleet to reduce emissions and improve safety for its drivers. As an EPA SmartWay Partner, Beacon also benchmarks with and learns from companies that have similar large fleets and are seeking to minimize emissions.

Risk Governance

Maintaining Beacon’s leadership position in the building products distribution industry requires that its information technology deliver against its goal to help its customers build more. Beacon’s information security team deploys an array of cybersecurity capabilities to protect its various business systems and data. Beacon continually invests in protecting against, monitoring and mitigating risks across the enterprise including, as one of its risk mitigation controls, an information security risk insurance policy.

#### Government Regulations
Beacon is subject to regulation by various federal, state, provincial and local agencies. These agencies include the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Beacon believes it complies, in all material respects, with applicable statutes and regulations affecting environmental issues and its employment, workplace health and workplace safety practices, and compliance with such statutes and regulations has no material effect on its capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position.

#### Seasonality and Quarterly Fluctuations
The demand for exterior building materials is closely correlated