---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-219988"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001959348"
company_name: "WK Kellogg Co"
filed_at: "2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:36:58.314465+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.95
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ferrero closes $23/share acquisition of WK Kellogg Co; stock delisted

## Summary
- Each share converted into $23 cash; aggregate purchase price ~$1.99B.
- Trading on NYSE halted and stock to be delisted; Form 25 to be filed.
- All eight directors resign; Merger Sub directors appointed to board.
- Credit agreement terminated and all indebtedness repaid at closing.
- Ferrero plans to invest in and grow WK Kellogg's brand portfolio.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-219988
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001959348
- company_name: WK Kellogg Co
- filed_at: 2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.95
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02, 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959348/000119312525219988/0001193125-25-219988-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959348/000119312525219988/d37512d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-219988.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WK Kellogg Co: By-laws amended and restated in their entirety following the Merger.
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  source text: the Amended and Restated By-laws of the Company were amended and restated in their entirety and replaced with the bylaws in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 3.2
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959348/000119312525219988/0001193125-25-219988-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  WK Kellogg Co: Certificate of Incorporation amended and restated in its entirety following the Merger.
  - Change: charter amendment
  source text: the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was amended and restated in its entirety and replaced with the certificate of incorporation in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959348/000119312525219988/0001193125-25-219988-index.htm

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