Company: GEF
Filing Date: 2025-08-28
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000043920-25-000048
Chunk: 133

Company: GREIF, INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-28
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 133
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board business, including our CorrChoice sheet feeder system (the “Containerboard Business”), for a purchase price of $1,800.0 million, subject to certain adjustments. The transaction is expected to close effective as of August 31, 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. As a result, the Containerboard Business is presented as discontinued operations beginning in the third quarter of 2025. Our allocation of corporate expenses was updated to reflect how management measures performance and allocates resources with the Containerboard Business being excluded from continuing operations. We have recast data from prior periods to reflect this change to conform to the current year presentation. Unless otherwise noted, the discussion below relates only to our continuing operations.

On August 5, 2025, we entered into a definitive agreement to sell our Soterra land management business, including approximately 173,000 acres of timberland (the “Soterra Business”), for a purchase price of approximately $462.0 million, subject to certain adjustments. The transaction is expected to close October 1, 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. The intended Soterra Business divestiture does not qualify as discontinued operations.

BUSINESS SEGMENTS

As previously announced, effective November 1, 2024, we implemented changes to our reporting structure, moving to a material solution-based structure. We realigned our organizational structure to operate in four reportable business segments: Customized Polymer Solutions; Durable Metal Solutions; Sustainable Fiber Solutions; and Integrated Solutions.

In the Customized Polymer Solutions reportable segment, we produce and sell a comprehensive line of polymer based packaging products, such as plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers and small plastics. Our polymer-based packaging products and services are sold on a global basis to customers in industries such as chemicals, food and beverage, agricultural, pharmaceutical and mineral products, among others.

In the Durable Metal Solutions reportable segment, we produce and sell metal-based packaging products, including a wide variety of steel drums. Our metal-based packaging products are sold on a global basis to customers in industries such as chemicals, petroleum, agriculture and paints and coatings, among others.

In the Sustainable Fiber Solutions reportable segment, we produce and sell fiber-based packaging products, including fibre drums, uncoated recycled board, coated recycled board, tubes and cores and specialty partitions made from containerboard, uncoated recycled board and coated recycled board. Our fiber-based packaging products are sold in North America in industries such as packaging, automotive, construction, food and