Company: GEF
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-KT
Source: 0001628280-25-053146
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Company: GREIF, INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-KT
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 Executive Officers and Corporate Governance                                                           |     |   98 |
|          |     | 11 |     | Executive Compensation                                                                                           |     |   98 |
|          |     | 12 |     | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters                   |     |   99 |
|          |     | 13 |     | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence                                        |     |  100 |
|          |     | 14 |     | Principal Accountant Fees and Services                                                                           |     |  100 |

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| Part IV |     | 15 |     | Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules |     | 101 |
|         |     | 16 |     | Form 10-KSummary                           |     | 106 |
|         |     |    |     | Signatures                                 |     | 106 |

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# PART I

## ITEM 1. BUSINESS

### General Development of Business
We are a leading global producer of industrial packaging products and services that operates in over 35 countries. We offer a comprehensive line of rigid industrial packaging products, such as steel, fibre and plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers, jerrycans and other small plastics, closure systems for industrial packaging products, water bottles and remanufactured and reconditioned industrial containers, and services, such as container life cycle management, logistics, warehousing and other packaging services. We also produce and sell coated recycled paperboard and uncoated recycled paperboard, some of which are used to produce and sell industrial products (tubes and cores, construction products and protective packaging). We also produce and sell bulk and specialty partitions made from uncoated recycled paperboard and containerboard. In addition, we purchase and sell recycled fiber, produce and sell adhesives used in our paperboard products and produce and sell paints and linings used in our steel drum products. Our customers range from Fortune 500 companies to medium and small-sized companies in a cross section of industries.

On June 30, 2025, we entered into a definitive agreement to sell our containerboard business, including our CorrChoice sheet feeder system (the “Containerboard Business”), and the equity interests in our subsidiaries that directly owned the Containerboard Business on the date of closing. The transaction was completed effective as of August 31, 2025 (“the