---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950103-25-014111"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HNI"
cik: "0000048287"
company_name: "HNI CORP"
filed_at: "2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:59:04.790412+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HNI-Steelcase merger clears HSR waiting period; shareholder vote still required

## Summary
- HSR waiting period expired at 11:59 p.m. ET on October 31, 2025.
- Expiration satisfies a key condition to closing the merger with Steelcase.
- Transaction remains subject to shareholder approvals and other customary conditions.
- Merger Agreement was entered on August 3, 2025; registration statement on Form S-4 filed but not yet effective.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950103-25-014111
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HNI
- cik: 0000048287
- company_name: HNI CORP
- filed_at: 2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48287/000095010325014111/0000950103-25-014111-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48287/000095010325014111/dp236785_8k.htm

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