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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001679273-25-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LW"
cik: "0001679273"
company_name: "Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T13:22:29.926029+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lamb Weston reaches cooperation agreement with JANA, Continental Grain; adds 6 directors, names new chairman

## Summary
- Six new directors: Bradley Alford (Chairman), Ruth Kimmelshue, Timothy McLevish, Scott Ostfeld, Lawrence Kurzius, Paul Maass.
- Four directors resign: Charles Blixt, W.G. Jurgensen, Robert Niblock, Maria Renna Sharpe; effective by July 11, 2025.
- Board expands from 11 to 13 directors; 12 independent. Alford named Chairman.
- JANA and Continental Grain get board seats; voting agreement for 2025 annual meeting and customary cooperation provisions.
- Committees reconstituted: Audit, Compensation, Nominating; Alford chairs Board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001679273-25-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LW
- cik: 0001679273
- company_name: Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679273/000167927325000041/0001679273-25-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679273/000167927325000041/lw-20250629.htm

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