MKC: Leadership change

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. Appointment of Cindy Hoots On May 19, 2026, the Board of the McCormick & Company, Incorporated (the “Company”) appointed Cindy Hoots to the Board of the Company with effect from June 1, 2026, on which date she will become a member of the Audit Committee of the Board. Ms. Hoots is the recently retired Chief Digital Officer and CIO of AstraZeneca PLC, and is a member of the Board of Directors, of Zoom Communications, Inc. Ms. Hoots does not have any family relationships with any of the executive officers or directors of the Company. There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Hoots and any other persons pursuant to which Ms. Hoots was selected as a director. Ms. Hoots will participate in the compensation arrangements for non-executive directors described on pages 24 through 26 of the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2026. There have been no transactions, nor are there any currently proposed transactions, to which the Company was or is to be a party and with which Ms. Hoots or any member of her immediate family had, or will have, a direct or indirect material interest. * * * On May 26, 2026, the Company issued a press release titled “McCormick Appoints Cindy Hoots to Board of Directors.” A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto. Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits. (d) Exhibits. Exhibit Number Description 99 Press release titled “McCormick Appoints Cindy Hoots to Board of Directors" 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document). SIGNATUR