Phibro Animal Health Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): December 18, 2025 (
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| ITEM 5.02 | DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR PRINCIPAL OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS. |
On December 18, 2025, Phibro Animal Health Corporation (“Phibro” or the “Company”) announced that Jack C. Bendheim, the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), Chief Executive Officer and President, will resign from his position as Chief Executive Officer and President, effective July 1, 2026 (the “Effective Date”). On the Effective Date, Mr. Jack C. Bendheim will assume a new managerial role as Executive Chairman and will continue to support strategic oversight and work closely with the executive leadership team. Mr. Jack C. Bendheim will continue to serve as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company.
On the Effective Date, Daniel (Dani) Bendheim, age 53, the Company’s current Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy, will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company. Mr. Dani Bendheim brings approximately 28 years of knowledge of the Company’s business into his new role, having first joined the Company in 1997. He was appointed the Company’s Vice President of Business Development in 2001, appointed President, Performance Products in 2004, and then appointed to his current role as Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy in March 2014. He was elected as member of the Board in November 2013.
Mr. Dani Bendheim is the son of Mr. Jack C. Bendheim, and the brother of Mr. Jonathan Bendheim, a member of the Board, and, together with certain other family members, is a Manager of BFI Co., LLC (“BFI”), an investment vehicle of the Bendheim family, with respect to the economic rights pertaining to shares of Company stock owned by BFI. For a description of Mr. Dani Bendheim’s family relationships with other directors and executive officers and for related party transactions, please see his biography under the heading “Executive Officers” and “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions” in Phibro’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the SEC on September 19, 2025, which sections are incorporated by reference herein.
Each of Mr. Dani Bendheim and Mr. Jack C. Bendheim will enter into a new or amended employment agreement prior to the Effective Date.
| ITEM 7.01 | REGULATION FD DISCLOSURE. |
On December 18, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing Mr. Jack C Bendheim resigning from his role as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company, and the appointment of Mr. Dani Bendheim as his successor to such roles, effective as of July 1, 2026. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The information contained in this Item 7.01 and in the press release is being furnished and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of, or otherwise regarded as filed under, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
| ITEM 9.01 | FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS. |
(d) Exhibits
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| 99.1 | Press Release, dated December 18, 2025. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| PHIBRO ANIMAL HEALTH CORPORATION | ||
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| Date: December 18, 2025 | ||
| By: | /s/ Judith Weinstein | |
| Name: | Judith Weinstein | |
| Title: | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | |