---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000016160-26-000032"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CALM"
cik: "0000016160"
company_name: "CAL-MAINE FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2026-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T22:16:00.825686+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.78
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.78
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cal-Maine Foods acquires Creighton Brothers shell egg and egg products assets for ~$128.5M

## Summary
- Purchase price ~$128.5M (subject to adjustments); funded with available cash on hand.
- Acquired assets include 3.2M laying hen capacity (500K cage-free), 865K pullets, feed mill, and 1,007 acres.
- Adds liquid egg, hard-cooked egg, and prepared foods facility in Warsaw, Indiana, a new market for Cal-Maine.
- Integrates 177 employees from Creighton Brothers and Crystal Lake; expects margin and supply-chain benefits.
- CEO cites expanded specialty and conventional egg scale to align production with consumer demand.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000016160-26-000032
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CALM
- cik: 0000016160
- company_name: CAL-MAINE FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2026-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.78
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.78
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000001616026000032/0000016160-26-000032-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16160/000001616026000032/8k20260302.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000016160-26-000032
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000016160-26-000032.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000016160-26-000032.txt

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