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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-091946"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000877422"
company_name: "SpartanNash Co"
filed_at: "2025-09-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:03:36.444751+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SpartanNash completes $26.90/share cash merger with C&S Wholesale Grocers

## Summary
- Merger closed Sep 22, 2025; public shareholders receive $26.90 per share in cash.
- All outstanding equity awards converted to cash based on Merger Consideration, with certain vesting conditions.
- SpartanNash stock (SPTN) delisted from Nasdaq; company to deregister with SEC.
- All prior directors resigned; new directors from Merger Sub appointed.
- Existing credit facility repaid and terminated upon merger closing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-091946
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000877422
- company_name: SpartanNash Co
- filed_at: 2025-09-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02, 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877422/000110465925091946/0001104659-25-091946-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877422/000110465925091946/tm2526608d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-091946.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SpartanNash Co: Amended and restated bylaws in connection with merger.
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  source text: the Company’s bylaws were amended and restated in their entirety
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877422/000110465925091946/0001104659-25-091946-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  SpartanNash Co: Amended and restated articles of incorporation in connection with merger.
  - Change: charter amendment
  source text: the Company’s articles of incorporation were amended and restated in their entirety
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877422/000110465925091946/0001104659-25-091946-index.htm
- M&A Transactions
  SpartanNash Co underwent a change of control involving C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC (closed 2025-09-22).
  - Action: change of control
  - Counterparty: C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC
  - Closing: 2025-09-22
  source text: On September 22, 2025, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the "Merger"), the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub ceased, the Company was the surviving corporation in the Merger (the "Surviving Corporation") and, as a result, is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877422/000110465925091946/0001104659-25-091946-index.htm

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