---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-068729"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FARM"
cik: "0000034563"
company_name: "FARMER BROTHERS CO"
filed_at: "2023-06-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T06:09:41.647446+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Farmer Bros. sells direct ship business to TreeHouse Foods for $100M; focuses on DSD

## Summary
- Asset sale includes Northlake, TX facility; expected to close within 60 days.
- Proceeds will pay down ABL debt and retire term loan, improving balance sheet.
- Post-sale annual revenue expected ~$350M with improved product margins.
- Approximately 180 Farmer Bros. team members will transition to TreeHouse Foods.
- Corporate HQ remains in Northlake, TX; DSD production moves to Portland, OR.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-068729
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FARM
- cik: 0000034563
- company_name: FARMER BROTHERS CO
- filed_at: 2023-06-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34563/000110465923068729/0001104659-23-068729-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34563/000110465923068729/tm2317992d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-068729
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-068729.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-068729.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  FARMER BROTHERS CO entered into Purchase Agreement with TreeHouse Foods, Inc. valued at $100 million in cash (effective 2023-06-06).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: asset purchase
  - Counterparty: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
  - Value: $100 million in cash
  - Effective: 2023-06-06
  source text: On June 6, 2023, Farmer Bros. Co., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with TreeHouse Foods, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Buyer”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34563/000110465923068729/0001104659-23-068729-index.htm

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