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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 Containerboard Divestiture). The Containerboard Business was previously reported under the Sustainable Fiber Solutions segment. The Containerboard Divestiture qualifies as discontinued operations because it represents a strategic shift that will have a major impact on our operations and financial results. As a result, the Containerboard Business was presented as discontinued operations beginning in the third quarter of 2025. We have recast data from prior periods to reflect this change to conform to the current year presentation.

During fiscal year 2025, we operated our Soterra land management business, which included approximately 173,000 acres of timberland (the “Soterra Business”). On August 5, 2025, we entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Soterra Business. The transaction closed subsequent to year end on October 1, 2025. The Soterra Business was reported under the Sustainable Fiber Solutions segment through the end of fiscal 2025. The Soterra Business divestiture did not qualify as discontinued operations.

As used in this Form 10-KT, the terms “Greif,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Greif, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

#### Change in Fiscal Year
Through October 31, 2024, our fiscal years began on November 1 and ended on October 31 of the following year. Any references in this Form 10-KT to fiscal 2024 or any prior fiscal years, or to any quarter of those fiscal years, relates to the fiscal year or quarter, as the case may be, ended in that year, unless otherwise stated.

We changed our fiscal year end to September 30, effective for the 2025 fiscal year. Our 2025 fiscal year began on November 1, 2024 and ended on September 30, 2025, and accordingly, consisted of eleven months (“fiscal 2025”). Our fourth fiscal quarter of 2025 was a two-month period ended September 30, 2025. Thereafter, our fiscal year will begin on October 1 and end on September 30 of the following year.

### Financial Information about Segments
Effective November 1, 2024, we implemented changes to our reporting structure starting in fiscal 2025. We now operate in four operating segments and four reportable segments: Customized Polymer Solutions; Durable Metal Solutions; Sustainable Fiber Solutions; and Integrated Solutions. Information related to our reportable segments is included in Note 13 of the