Company: TR
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-003853
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Company: TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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 the Chief Executive Officer, participated in the CAP, which is an unfunded, nonqualified deferred compensation plan, in 2024. With respect to the Chief Executive Officer, the Board of Directors has determined that beginning in 2021, amounts that would otherwise be awarded under the CAP should be paid to the Chief Executive Officer as a discretionary bonus. The CAP allows the Board to annually grant deferred cash awards to participants based on performance as determined by the Board. Amounts deferred under the CAP are increased or decreased over time based on the returns of a diversified set of publicly traded mutual funds, the Moody’s bond index or up to 10,000 shares of Company common stock (adjusted for stock dividends) as selected by the participants. Each annual CAP award is subject to a separate five year vesting schedule with annual vesting at a rate of twenty percent with accelerated vesting in the event of death, disability or retirement after age 65. CAP benefits are payable only upon an eligible termination of employment or in connection with a change in control of the Company. A participant will forfeit any unvested amounts upon termination of employment. Payment of vested benefits generally commences on the later of the first anniversary of the date of employment termination or the 60th day after the participant’s 65th birthday (or, if earlier, sixty days after death or disability or six months and a day after separation from service after age sixty-five). All amounts accrued under the CAP as of December 31, 2017 are payable in a single lump sum. Future awards and the earnings thereon will be payable in a single lump sum or in up to 10 annual installments as may be elected by participants as may be permitted under §409A. A participant whose employment is terminated for cause will forfeit all CAP benefits. A participant who is employed by the Company at the time of a change in control will receive an immediate lump sum payment of all accumulated CAP benefits. All distributions (other than distributions made by reason of the participant’s death), will be subject to the participant entering into a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement that will be

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effective beginning on the date of the event triggering the right to payment and ending one year after employment termination. Participants will forfeit amounts accrued after January 2, 1999 if they violate the non-competition and non-solicitation agreement. All of the named executive officers’ balances in the EBP, SSP and CAP are fully vested. Payments to the