---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-043247"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBBY"
cik: "0001130713"
company_name: "BED BATH & BEYOND, INC."
filed_at: "2025-11-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T16:47:40.091756+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BBBY agrees to acquire TBHC via stock merger; TBHC holders get 0.1993 BBBY shares

## Summary
- BBBY to acquire The Brand House Collective via merger; TBHC shareholders receive 0.1993 BBBY shares per share.
- Merger subject to TBHC shareholder approval, SEC S-4 effectiveness, and payoff/amendment of TBHC's Bank of America credit facility.
- Termination fee of $1,025,300 payable by TBHC to BBBY under certain termination scenarios.
- BBBY increased delayed draw term loan commitments to TBHC by $10M to $30M; TBHC borrowed $10M concurrently.
- Merger expected to close by May 24, 2026, subject to extensions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-043247
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBBY
- cik: 0001130713
- company_name: BED BATH & BEYOND, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-11-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/000114036125043247/0001140361-25-043247-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/000114036125043247/ef20059982_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  BED BATH & BEYOND, INC. incurred credit facility.
  - Instrument: credit facility
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: The foregoing disclosure under " Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement " in Item 1.01 hereof is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/000114036125043247/0001140361-25-043247-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  BED BATH & BEYOND, INC. entered into "Merger Agreement" with The Brand House Collective, Inc. (effective 2025-11-24).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: The Brand House Collective, Inc.
  - Effective: 2025-11-24
  source text: On November 24, 2025, Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement ”), by and among the Company, Knight Merger Sub II, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and The Brand House Collective, Inc., a Tennessee corporation (“ TBHC ”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/000114036125043247/0001140361-25-043247-index.htm

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