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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-031398"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FLO"
cik: "0001128928"
company_name: "FLOWERS FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T06:47:17.543655+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Flowers Foods completes $795M cash acquisition of Simple Mills

## Summary
- Acquired Simple Mills for $795M cash, subject to post-closing adjustments.
- Simple Mills offers premium crackers, cookies, snack bars, and baking mixes.
- CEO says deal boosts presence in better-for-you segments and enhances growth/margin prospects.
- Director C. Martin Wood III not standing for re-election; board to shrink from 12 to 11.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-031398
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FLO
- cik: 0001128928
- company_name: FLOWERS FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1128928/000119312525031398/0001193125-25-031398-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1128928/000119312525031398/d904899d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-031398
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-031398.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-031398.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  C. Martin Wood III retired as Director at FLOWERS FOODS INC.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 14, 2025, C. Martin Wood III notified the board of directors (the “Board”) of Flowers Foods, Inc. (the “Company”) that he does not wish to stand for re-election as a director and will retire from the Board at the end of his current term at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1128928/000119312525031398/0001193125-25-031398-index.htm

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