---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001530950-23-000114"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "POST"
cik: "0001530950"
company_name: "Post Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T06:25:11.399548+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Post Holdings completes $700M+stock acquisition of Smucker's pet food brands (Rachael Ray Nutrish, etc.)

## Summary
- Acquired Rachael Ray Nutrish, Nature's Recipe, 9Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits, Gravy Train brands and private label pet food assets.
- Consideration: $700M cash plus ~5.4M newly issued POST shares (5,390,254) to Smucker.
- Acquired manufacturing facilities in Bloomsburg PA (distribution+manufacturing), Meadville PA, and Lawrence KS.
- Registration Rights Agreement grants Smucker resale rights and restricts further share purchases until April 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001530950-23-000114
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: POST
- cik: 0001530950
- company_name: Post Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 3.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530950/000153095023000114/0001530950-23-000114-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530950/000153095023000114/post-20230428.htm

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## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  Post Holdings, Inc. completed an acquisition involving The J. M. Smucker Company for $700.0 million, subject to inventory adjustments, in cash, and issued to Smucker the Smucker Shares (closed 2023-04-28).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: The J. M. Smucker Company
  - Consideration: $700.0 million, subject to inventory adjustments, in cash, and issued to Smucker the Smucker Shares
  - Closing: 2023-04-28
  source text: located in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and manufacturing facilities located in Meadville, Pennsylvania and Lawrence, Kansas. Upon completion of the Transaction, Post paid Smucker $700.0 million, subject to inventory adjustments, in cash, and issued to Smucker the Smucker Shares. Also, in connection with the consummation of the Transaction, the parties entered into
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530950/000153095023000114/0001530950-23-000114-index.htm

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