---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000043920-21-000064"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEF"
cik: "0000043920"
company_name: "GREIF, INC"
filed_at: "2021-11-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T15:23:24.080588+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Greif SVP Michael Cronin to retire effective Feb 1, 2022

## Summary
- Michael Cronin, SVP Enterprise Strategy and Global Sourcing and Supply Chain, retiring effective February 1, 2022.
- Retirement announced on November 2, 2021; no successor named.
- Cronin's departure is a planned retirement; no cause or controversy noted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000043920-21-000064
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEF
- cik: 0000043920
- company_name: GREIF, INC
- filed_at: 2021-11-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43920/000004392021000064/0000043920-21-000064-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43920/000004392021000064/gef-20211102.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000043920-21-000064
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000043920-21-000064.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000043920-21-000064.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Cronin departed as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Global Sourcing and Supply Chain at GREIF, INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Global Sourcing and Supply Chain
  source text: On November 2, 2021, Greif, Inc. (the “Company”) issued an announcement to employees that Michael Cronin, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Global Sourcing and Supply Chain, will retire from the Company, effective February 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43920/000004392021000064/0000043920-21-000064-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.