Company: GPI
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001031203-25-000023
Chunk: 80

Company: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 80
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 or a proposal of business (other than through Rule 14a-8) to be properly brought before our Annual Meeting of Shareholders, it must be either specified in the notice of the meeting given by our Corporate Secretary or otherwise brought before the meeting by or at the direction of our Board or by a shareholder who was a shareholder of record at the time of giving notice provided for in our Bylaws, is entitled to vote at the meeting, and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in our Bylaws. Subject to the exception described below, a shareholder making a nomination for election to our Board or a proposal of business for the 2026 Annual Meeting must deliver proper notice to our Corporate Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company no earlier than the close of business 120 days, and no later than the close of business 90 days, prior to the anniversary date of the 2025 Annual Meeting. In other words, for a shareholder nomination for election to our Board or a proposal of business to be considered at the 2025 Annual Meeting (other than through Rule 14a-8), it should be properly submitted to our Corporate Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company no earlier than the close of business January 13, 2026 and no later than the close of business February 12, 2026. However, in the event that the date of an Annual Meeting is more than 30 days before or more than 60 days after the anniversary date of the preceding year’s Annual Meeting, the shareholder notice must be delivered not earlier than 120 days prior to such Annual Meeting and not later than 90 days prior to such Annual Meeting or, if the first public announcement of the date of such Annual Meeting is less than 100 days prior to the date of such Annual Meeting, the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such Annual Meeting is first made by the Company.

If we increase the number of directors to be elected at an Annual Meeting and do not make a public announcement naming all of the nominees for director and specifying the size of the increased Board at least 80 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s Annual Meeting, a shareholder’s notice regarding the nominees for the new positions created by the increase will be considered timely if it is delivered to our Corporate Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which the public announcement is first made.

For each individual that a shareholder