---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-26-003934"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LWAY"
cik: "0000814586"
company_name: "Lifeway Foods, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-14T21:02:37+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-14T21:04:53.877148+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lifeway Foods prices secondary offering of 3.45M shares at $19.50; to repurchase $5M

## Summary
- Secondary offering of 3,454,756 shares by Danone USA at $19.50 per share; closing expected May 19, 2026.
- Lifeway will not receive any proceeds from the offering; all shares sold by the selling stockholder.
- Lifeway agreed to repurchase approximately $5.0 million of the shares at the same price, conditioned on offering completion.
- BTIG LLC acting as sole underwriter; offering made under effective shelf registration statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-26-003934
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LWAY
- cik: 0000814586
- company_name: Lifeway Foods, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-14T21:02:37+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316826003934/0001683168-26-003934-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316826003934/lifeway_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-26-003934.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Lifeway Foods, Inc. entered into Underwriting Agreement with BTIG, LLC and Danone USA Public Benefit Corporation (effective 2026-05-14).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: underwriting
  - Counterparty: BTIG, LLC and Danone USA Public Benefit Corporation
  - Effective: 2026-05-14
  source text: On May 14, 2026, Lifeway Foods, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with BTIG, LLC (the “Underwriter”) and Danone USA Public Benefit Corporation (the “Selling Stockholder”) in connection with a public offering of an aggregate of 3,454,756 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”), by the Selling Stockholder at a price to the public of $19.50 per share (the “Offering”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814586/000168316826003934/0001683168-26-003934-index.htm

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