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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000043920-25-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEF"
cik: "0000043920"
company_name: "GREIF, INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T11:09:18.208861+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Greif sells containerboard business for $1.8B cash to Packaging Corp of America

## Summary
- All-cash sale of Greif Containerboard Solutions and Box-Board Holding to Packaging Corporation of America.
- Transaction expected to close by end of fiscal 2025, subject to regulatory approvals.
- Proceeds will be used for debt repayment; pro-forma leverage below 2.0x post-close.
- CEO Ole Rosgaard says divestiture sharpens portfolio and advances Build to Last strategy.
- Goldman Sachs acted as exclusive financial advisor to Greif.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000043920-25-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEF
- cik: 0000043920
- company_name: GREIF, INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43920/000004392025000038/0000043920-25-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43920/000004392025000038/gef-20250701.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000043920-25-000038.txt

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