---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-23-001803"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LWAY"
cik: "0000814586"
company_name: "Lifeway Foods, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T16:01:40.539081+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lifeway Foods amends bylaws to require committee compliance with exchange listing rules

## Summary
- Board approved Second Amended and Restated Bylaws effective March 24, 2023.
- Amendment consolidates prior amendments and revises Article III, Section 3.14.1.
- Now mandates audit, compensation, and nominating committees meet exchange listing requirements.
- No other material changes to governance or operations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-23-001803
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LWAY
- cik: 0000814586
- company_name: Lifeway Foods, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316823001803/0001683168-23-001803-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316823001803/lifeway_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-23-001803.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Lifeway Foods, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to consolidate prior versions and amend Article III, Section 3.14.1 to require audit, compensation, and nominating committees meeting exchange listing requirements (effective 2023-03-24).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-24
  source text: Effective March 24, 2023, the board of directors (the "Board") of Lifeway Foods, Inc. (the "Company") approved the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “2 nd Amended and Restated Bylaws”) which, among other things, consolidates the Amended and Restated Bylaws with the amended thereto and amends Article III, Section 3.14.1 to require that the Company maintains an audit committee, compensation committee and nominating committee that meet any securities exchange listing requirements to which the Company is subject.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316823001803/0001683168-23-001803-index.htm

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