Alico Shareholders Re-Elect Directors, Ratify Grant Thornton as Auditor at Virtual Annual Meeting

Alico (NASDAQ:ALCO) held its 2026 yearly gathering of shareholders connected Feb. 27, 2026, successful a afloat virtual format via unrecorded webcast. Chairman of the Board Adam Putnam presided implicit the gathering and outlined information rules, including that lone shareholders logging successful with a 16-digit power fig provided with proxy materials could ballot oregon taxable questions done the web portal.

Putnam introduced the directors and institution officers participating successful the meeting. Directors contiguous included Chief Executive Officer John Kiernan, George Brokaw, Kate English, Ben Fishman, Andy Krusen, Toby Purse, and Hank Slack, arsenic good arsenic manager nominee Eric Spyron. Company executives introduced included Chief Financial Officer Brad Heine, Chief Information Officer James Sampel, Executive Vice President of Real Estate Mitch Hutchcraft, and Chief Administration Officer Mary Molina.

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Putnam besides introduced Jason Geisler of Grant Thornton, the company’s autarkic auditor, who was made disposable for due questions during the Q&A information of the meeting.

The institution appointed Beth VanDerbeck of Broadridge Financial Solutions to service arsenic inspector of election. Putnam said the polls opened astatine 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time for voting connected each matters earlier the gathering and remained unfastened until the proposals were presented and the polls were closed.

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Putnam noted that shareholders of grounds arsenic of the adjacent of concern connected Jan. 2, 2026, oregon holders of a valid proxy, were entitled to vote. He added that a quorum was present, allowing the gathering to proceed.

Shareholders considered 2 proposals, some recommended by the committee of directors:

• Election of directors: Election of Adam Putnam, George Brokaw, Kate English, John Kiernan, Toby Purse, and Eric Spyron to service arsenic directors for presumption expiring astatine the 2027 yearly meeting.

• Auditor ratification: Ratification of the audit committee’s assignment of Grant Thornton LLP arsenic the company’s autarkic registered nationalist accounting steadfast for the fiscal twelvemonth ending Sept. 30, 2026.