Good morning, and welcome to the special meeting of stockholders of TreeHouse Foods Incorporated. I am Steve Oakland, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, and President of TreeHouse Foods, and I will be presiding over this meeting. Thank you for joining us today. We appreciate your support of TreeHouse Foods. It is now shortly after 9 A.M. Central Time on January 29th, 2026, and this meeting is officially called to order. I will now ask Ms. Waterman to introduce the Inspector of Elections and to confirm that the notice of this special meeting was properly given and attest to the presence of a quorum. Thank you, Steve. The board of directors has appointed Tracy Oates, a representative of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., as Inspector of Elections for this special meeting. Ms. Oates has taken the oath of office, which will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. The board of directors fixed December 26th, 2025, as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at this special meeting. An affidavit has been delivered by Broadridge, attesting to the fact that that notice of this special meeting and proxy statement was mailed on or about December 29, 2025, to all stockholders as of the record date. This affidavit will be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. The stockholder list shows that as of the close of business on the Record Date, there were 50,485,807 shares of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at this special meeting. We are informed by the Inspector of Elections that there are 43,783,127 shares of our common stock present or represented by proxy at this special meeting, which represents a majority of the voting power of our common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at this meeting. Therefore, a quorum is present, and I declare this special meeting to be duly convened for the purposes of transacting business. Now, I will present the matters to be voted upon. Proposal 1 is to approve the adoption of the agreement and plan of merger, dated as of November 10th, 2025, as it may be amended from time to time, which we refer to as the Merger Agreement among Industrial F&B Investments II Inc., Industrial F&B Investments III Inc., and TreeHouse Foods, Inc. Pursuant to which, Industrial F&B Investments III Inc. will be merged with and into TreeHouse Foods, with TreeHouse Foods, Inc. surviving as a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Industrial F&B Investments II Inc., which we refer to as the merger. Proposal two is to approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, specified compensation that may be paid or become payable to the named executive officers of TreeHouse Foods in connection with the merger and contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Proposal three is to approve the adjournment of this special meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary or appropriate, including to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes at the time of this special meeting to approve the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement. Mr. Oakland will now open the polls. Steve? Steve, you may be on mute. Thank you, Kristy. It is now 9:04 A.M. Central Time on January 29th, 2026, and the polls are now open. Any stockholder who has not yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions. Stockholders who have sent in proxies or voted via telephone or internet and do not wish to change their vote do not need to take any further action. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I declare the polls of the special meeting of stockholders closed at 9:05 A.M. Central Time on January 29th, 2026. I now request that the Inspector of Elections, Ms. Oates, report on the preliminary results. Thank you, Mr. Oakland. My records indicate the following: Proposal one, to approve the adoption of the Merger Agreement, has been approved by the stockholders. Proposal two, to approve on a non-binding advisory basis certain compensation of the company's named executive officers in connection with the merger and the Merger Agreement, has been approved by the stockholders. Proposal three, to approve the adjournment of this special meeting, if necessary or appropriate, has been approved by the stockholders. Thank you, Ms. Oates. Since the Merger Agreement was approved by the requisite vote, the adjournment to solicit additional proxies is not necessary. The final voting results will be included in a current report on Form 8-K that will be filed in the coming days. There being no further business to come before us, I formally conclude and adjourn this special meeting. Thank you all for joining us today. That concludes our meeting today. You may now disconnect.
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