HAMILTON BEACH BRANDS HOLDING CO, DEF 14A filed on 3/25/2026
Proxy Statement (definitive)
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Document Type DEF 14A
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Entity Registrant Name HAMILTON BEACH BRANDS HOLDING COMPANY
Entity Central Index Key 0001709164
v3.26.1
Pay vs Performance Disclosure - USD ($)
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2025
Dec. 31, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure, Table    
Pay Versus Performance
As required by the SEC’s pay versus performance rules (“PVP Rules”), the following Pay Versus Performance table (“PVP Table”) provides
SEC-required
information about compensation for 2025 for this Proxy Statement’s named executive officers, as well as compensation for 2023 and 2024 for our named executive officers from our 2024 and 2025 Proxy Statements (each of 2023, 2024 and 2025, a “Covered Year”). We refer to all of the named executive officers covered in the PVP Table below, collectively, as the “PVP NEOs”. The PVP Table also provides information about the results for certain measures of financial performance during those same Covered Years. In reviewing this information, there are a few important things we believe you should consider:
 
   
The information in columns (b) and (d) of the PVP Table comes directly from the 2023, 2024 and 2025 Summary Compensation Tables;
 
   
As required by the SEC’s PVP Rules, we describe the information in columns (c) and (e) of the PVP Table as “compensation actually paid” (or “CAP”) to the applicable PVP NEOs. However, these CAP amounts may not necessarily reflect the final compensation that our PVP NEOs actually earned or walked away with for their service in the Covered Years, respectively; and
 
   
As required by the SEC’s PVP Rules, we provide information in the PVP Table below about our cumulative absolute total shareholder return (“TSR”) results and our U.S. GAAP net income results (the “External Measures”) during the Covered Years. We did not, however, actually base any compensation decisions for the PVP NEOs on, or link any PVP NEO pay to, these particular External Measures because the External Measures were not metrics used in our short-term or long-term incentive plans during the Covered Years. As a result, we did not design our PVP NEO compensation to move in tandem with improving, declining or steady achievement in these External Measures.
Pay Versus Performance Table
 
Year (a)
 
Summary
Compensation
Table
Total for
PEO Trepp
(b)(1)
 
Summary
Compensation
Table
Total for
PEO Tidey
(b)(1)
 
Compensation
Actually
Paid to
PEO Trepp
(c)(1)(2)(3)
 
Compensation
Actually
Paid to
PEO Tidey
(c)(1)(2)(3)
 
Average
Summary
Compensation
Table
Total for
Non-PEO

Named
Executive
Officers
(d)(1)
 
Average
Compensation
Actually
Paid to
Non-PEO

Named
Executive
Officers
(e)(1)(2)(3)
 
Value of Initial
Fixed $100
Investment
Based

on Total
Shareholder
Return (f)(4)
 
Net Income
(g)
2025
      N/A     $ 3,501,213       N/A     $ 3,501,213     $ 847,506     $ 847,506     $ 143.79       $ 26,455,000  
2024
    $ 4,471,260     $ 2,953,212     $ 4,471,260     $ 2,953,212     $ 1,112,212     $ 1,112,212     $ 143.02     $ 30,759,000
2023
    $ 3,973,459       N/A     $ 3,973,459       N/A     $ 1,247,321     $ 1,247,321     $ 144.67     $ 25,242,000
 
(1)
R. Scott Tidey was our principal executive officer (“PEO”) for the full year of 2025 and for a portion of 2024 beginning October 1, 2024. Gregory H. Trepp was our PEO for a portion of 2024 ending September 30, 2024 and for the full year of 2023. For 2025, our
non-PEO
PVP NEOs were Sally M. Cunningham and Andrew C. Carington. For 2024, our
non-PEO
PVP NEOs were Sally M. Cunningham and Lawrence K. Workman, Jr. For 2023, our
non-PEO
PVP NEOs were R. Scott Tidey and Lawrence K. Workman, Jr.
 
(2)
For 2025, in determining both the CAP to our PEO and the average CAP to our
non-PEO
PVP NEOs for purposes of this PVP Table, we deducted from or added back to the total amounts of compensation reported in col
um
ns (b) and (d) for such Covered Year the following
amounts
:
Item and Value Added (Deducted)
  
2025 ($)
 
For R. Scott Tidey:
  
-
SCT “Stock Awards” column value
   ($ 1,069,993
-
SCT “Option Awards” column value
     N/A  
+
Covered
Year-end
fair value of outstanding equity awards granted in Covered Year
     N/A  
+/-
change in fair value (from prior
year-end
to Covered
Year-end)
of equity awards outstanding at Covered
Year-end
that were granted prior to Covered Year
     N/A  
+
vesting date fair value of equity awards granted and vested in Covered Year
   $ 1,069,993  
+/-
change in fair value (from prior
year-end
to vesting date) of equity awards granted prior to Covered Year that vested in Covered Year
     N/A  
-
prior
year-end
fair value of equity awards granted prior to Covered Year that were forfeited in Covered Year
     N/A  
+
includable dividends/earnings on equity awards during Covered Year
     N/A  
TOTAL ADDED (DEDUCTED):
     0  
 
Item and Value Added (Deducted)
  
2025 ($)
 
For
Non-PEO
Named Executive Officers (Average):
  
-
SCT “Stock Awards” column value
   ($ 152,842
-
SCT “Option Awards” column value
     N/A  
+
Covered
Year-end
fair value of outstanding equity awards granted in Covered Year
     N/A  
+/-
change in fair value (from prior
year-end
to Covered
Year-end)
of equity awards outstanding at Covered
Year-end
that were granted prior to Covered Year
     N/A  
+
vesting date fair value of equity awards granted and vested in Covered Year
   $ 152,842  
+/-
change in fair value (from prior
year-end
to vesting date) of equity awards granted prior to Covered Year that vested in Covered Year
     N/A  
-
prior
year-end
fair value of equity awards granted prior to Covered Year that were forfeited in Covered Year
     N/A  
+
includable dividends/earnings on equity awards during Covered Year
     N/A  
TOTAL ADDED (DEDUCTED):
     0  
 
Please note that while similar adjustment information was provided in our 2025 proxy statement for the 2024 Covered Year and in our 2024 proxy statement for the 2023 Covered Year, under applicable SEC guidance, repeating such adjustment information is not required in this Proxy Statement because in our view it is not material to our shareholders’ understanding of the information reported in the PVP Table for 2025 or the relationships disclosures provided below.
 
(3)
December 31 has been determined by us to represent the accounting grant date for awards granted to our PVP NEOs in each Covered Year under the Long-Term Equity Plan, which date is also the same date on which such awards are considered vested for purposes of the PVP Table. As a result, there is no difference between the fair value of those awards on the accounting grant date and the vesting date, and no change between SCT totals and CAP for our PVP NEOs.
 
(4)
For each Covered Year, our total shareholder return was calculated as the yearly percentage change in our cumulative total shareholder return on our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, measured as the quotient of (a) the sum of (i) the cumulative amount of dividends for a period beginning with our closing price on Nasdaq Stock Market on December 31, 2022 through and including the last day of the Covered Year (each
one-,
two-,
and three-year period, a “Measurement Period”), assuming dividend reinvestment, plus (ii) the difference between our closing stock price at the end versus the beginning of the
Measurement
  Period, divided by (b) our closing share price at the beginning of the Measurement Period. Each of these yearly percentage changes was then applied to a deemed fixed investment of $100 at the beginning of the Measurement Period to produce the Covered
Year-end
values of such investment as of the end of 2025, 2024 and 2023, as applicable. Because Covered Years are presented in the table in reverse chronological order (from top to bottom), the table should be read from bottom to top for purposes of understanding cumulative returns over time.
   
Named Executive Officers, Footnote     For 2024, our
non-PEO
PVP NEOs were Sally M. Cunningham and Lawrence K. Workman, Jr. For 2023, our
non-PEO
PVP NEOs were R. Scott Tidey and Lawrence K. Workman, Jr.
   
Adjustment To PEO Compensation, Footnote    
(2)
For 2025, in determining both the CAP to our PEO and the average CAP to our
non-PEO
PVP NEOs for purposes of this PVP Table, we deducted from or added back to the total amounts of compensation reported in col
um
ns (b) and (d) for such Covered Year the following
amounts
:
Item and Value Added (Deducted)
  
2025 ($)
 
For R. Scott Tidey:
  
-
SCT “Stock Awards” column value
   ($ 1,069,993
-
SCT “Option Awards” column value
     N/A  
+
Covered
Year-end
fair value of outstanding equity awards granted in Covered Year
     N/A  
+/-
change in fair value (from prior
year-end
to Covered
Year-end)
of equity awards outstanding at Covered
Year-end
that were granted prior to Covered Year
     N/A  
+
vesting date fair value of equity awards granted and vested in Covered Year
   $ 1,069,993  
+/-
change in fair value (from prior
year-end
to vesting date) of equity awards granted prior to Covered Year that vested in Covered Year
     N/A  
-
prior
year-end
fair value of equity awards granted prior to Covered Year that were forfeited in Covered Year
     N/A  
+
includable dividends/earnings on equity awards during Covered Year
     N/A  
TOTAL ADDED (DEDUCTED):
     0  
   
Non-PEO NEO Average Total Compensation Amount     $ 847,506 $ 1,112,212 $ 1,247,321
Non-PEO NEO Average Compensation Actually Paid Amount     $ 847,506 1,112,212 1,247,321
Adjustment to Non-PEO NEO Compensation Footnote    
(2)
For 2025, in determining both the CAP to our PEO and the average CAP to our
non-PEO
PVP NEOs for purposes of this PVP Table, we deducted from or added back to the total amounts of compensation reported in col
um
ns (b) and (d) for such Covered Year the following
amounts
:
Item and Value Added (Deducted)
  
2025 ($)
 
For
Non-PEO
Named Executive Officers (Average):
  
-
SCT “Stock Awards” column value
   ($ 152,842
-
SCT “Option Awards” column value
     N/A  
+
Covered
Year-end
fair value of outstanding equity awards granted in Covered Year
     N/A  
+/-
change in fair value (from prior
year-end
to Covered
Year-end)
of equity awards outstanding at Covered
Year-end
that were granted prior to Covered Year
     N/A  
+
vesting date fair value of equity awards granted and vested in Covered Year
   $ 152,842  
+/-
change in fair value (from prior
year-end
to vesting date) of equity awards granted prior to Covered Year that vested in Covered Year
     N/A  
-
prior
year-end
fair value of equity awards granted prior to Covered Year that were forfeited in Covered Year
     N/A  
+
includable dividends/earnings on equity awards during Covered Year
     N/A  
TOTAL ADDED (DEDUCTED):
     0  
   
Compensation Actually Paid vs. Total Shareholder Return     LOGO    
Compensation Actually Paid vs. Net Income     LOGO    
Total Shareholder Return Amount     $ 143.79 143.02 144.67
Net Income (Loss)     26,455,000 30,759,000 25,242,000
Gregory H. Trepp [Member]          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
PEO Total Compensation Amount       4,471,260 3,973,459
PEO Actually Paid Compensation Amount       4,471,260 $ 3,973,459
PEO Name   Gregory H. Trepp     Gregory H. Trepp
R. Scott Tidey [Member]          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
PEO Total Compensation Amount     3,501,213 2,953,212  
PEO Actually Paid Compensation Amount     $ 3,501,213 $ 2,953,212  
PEO Name R. Scott Tidey   R. Scott Tidey    
PEO | Equity Awards Adjustments          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
Adjustment to Compensation, Amount     $ 0    
PEO | Aggregate Grant Date Fair Value of Equity Award Amounts Reported in Summary Compensation Table          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
Adjustment to Compensation, Amount     (1,069,993)    
PEO | Vesting Date Fair Value of Equity Awards Granted and Vested in Covered Year          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
Adjustment to Compensation, Amount     1,069,993    
Non-PEO NEO | Equity Awards Adjustments          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
Adjustment to Compensation, Amount     0    
Non-PEO NEO | Aggregate Grant Date Fair Value of Equity Award Amounts Reported in Summary Compensation Table          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
Adjustment to Compensation, Amount     (152,842)    
Non-PEO NEO | Vesting Date Fair Value of Equity Awards Granted and Vested in Covered Year          
Pay vs Performance Disclosure          
Adjustment to Compensation, Amount     $ 152,842    
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