---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-027412"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LW"
cik: "0001679273"
company_name: "Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T18:20:15.615823+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lamb Weston completes acquisition of remaining 50% stake in European JV for €525M cash and 1.95M shares

## Summary
- Total consideration: €525M cash (subject to adjustments) plus 1,952,421 shares of LW common stock.
- Adds five manufacturing facilities in Netherlands and UK, plus a sixth via 75% interest in Austrian JV.
- Annual production capacity of nearly 2 billion pounds (910,000 MT) of frozen potato products.
- Lamb-Weston/Meijer will now be fully consolidated; previously recorded as equity method investment.
- Transaction closed on February 28, 2023; originally announced in October 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-027412
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LW
- cik: 0001679273
- company_name: Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 1.01, 3.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679273/000110465923027412/0001104659-23-027412-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679273/000110465923027412/tm238161d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. completed an acquisition involving Meijer Beheer B.V. for approximately €531.6 million (including approximately €6.6 million of interest payable pursuant to the Purchase Agreement) and 1,952,421 shares of LW’s common s (closed 2023-02-28).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: Meijer Beheer B.V.
  - Consideration: approximately €531.6 million (including approximately €6.6 million of interest payable pursuant to the Purchase Agreement) and 1,952,421 shares of LW’s common s
  - Closing: 2023-02-28
  source text: On the Closing Date, LW, through its wholly owned subsidiary LWH, acquired from MB 100% of the equity interests in MFF for a purchase price consisting of (i) cash consideration of approximately €531.6 million (including approximately €6.6 million of interest payable pursuant to the Purchase Agreement), subject to certain post-closing adjustments pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, and (ii) the LW Shares, as discussed above.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679273/000110465923027412/0001104659-23-027412-index.htm

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