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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-001028"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LWAY"
cik: "0000814586"
company_name: "Lifeway Foods, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T21:48:52.348470+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lifeway Foods refutes Smolyansky family misstatements regarding CEO, board, share sale

## Summary
- Julie Smolyansky did not attend board vote on her retention bonus; independent directors voted only.
- Special committee reaffirmed independence of directors Scher, Sikar after 2021 investigation.
- Edward Smolyansky's failed share sale was due to incomplete documentation, not company interference.
- Ludmila Smolyansky sold shares successfully after providing required documents to transfer agent.
- Letter demands cease and desist of defamatory statements about CEO and Company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-001028
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LWAY
- cik: 0000814586
- company_name: Lifeway Foods, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316825001028/0001683168-25-001028-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316825001028/lifeway_8k.htm

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