secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Lifeway Foods, Inc. (LWAY)
CIK:        0000814586
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-12-01T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001683168-25-008776
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Lifeway appoints two directors, attacks dissident nominees as unfit; annual meeting moved to Dec 29
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- Appointed Kirk Chartier and Susie Hultquist as directors effective Nov 26, 2025; annual meeting rescheduled from Dec 16 to Dec 29.
- Company says Edward Smolyansky was terminated for cause as COO, intoxicated on duty, defaulted on $10.4M mortgage; Ludmila Smolyansky faces $2.3M tax liens.
- George Sent, former lead independent director, now aligns with dissident despite prior ISS recommendation against dissident nominees.
- Company highlights strong performance: 788% TSR over 5 years, 123% revenue growth since FY2019, record Q3 2025 net sales $57.1M (+29%).
- Board refreshment: four new independent directors appointed in Oct-Nov 2025 per cooperation agreement with Danone.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316825008776/0001683168-25-008776-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316825008776/lifeway_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-008776

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