Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) September 3, 2025
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On September 3, 2025, Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Distribution Agreement (the “Agreement”) with KeHE Distributors, LLC (“KeHE”), the Company’s primary distributor of dry grocery and frozen food products. The Agreement has a ten-year term and replaces the Company’s prior distribution agreement dated July 18, 2018 with KeHE. The Agreement includes terms relating to KeHE’s distribution of products to the Company, including product pricing, service level arrangements, product management and distribution procedures, and other ordinary course operational terms governing the Company’s distribution relationship with KeHE. The foregoing is only a summary description of the terms of the Agreement, does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Agreement, which will be filed in a redacted form as an exhibit to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending September 28, 2025.
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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 hereunto duly authorized.
| SPROUTS FARMERS MARKET, INC. | ||||||||
| Date: September 8, 2025 | By: | /s/ Brandon F. Lombardi | ||||||
| Name: | Brandon F. Lombardi | |||||||
| Title: | Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary | |||||||