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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-007957"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LWAY"
cik: "0000814586"
company_name: "Lifeway Foods, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:46:40.593306+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lifeway Foods appoints Andee Harris and Rachel Drori as directors; board size set at 8

## Summary
- Appointed Andee Harris and Rachel Drori to board effective October 29, 2025.
- Harris will serve on Audit and Corporate Governance Committee.
- Board amended bylaws to allow 5-10 directors; set size at 8.
- New directors will receive standard non-employee director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-007957
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LWAY
- cik: 0000814586
- company_name: Lifeway Foods, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316825007957/0001683168-25-007957-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316825007957/lway_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Lifeway Foods, Inc.: Board approved an amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws providing for a board size range of five to ten directors, with the specific number set by Board resolution, effective immediately on October 29, 2025 (effective 2025-10-29).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-10-29
  source text: In connection with the appointments discussed under Item 5.02 above, on October 29, 2025, the Board approved an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “By-laws”), effective immediately, which provides for a range of Board size of between five (5) and ten (10) directors, which number within that range shall be set from time to time by resolution of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316825007957/0001683168-25-007957-index.htm

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