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Exhibit 99.2
Contacts:
Sherman Miller, President and CEO
Max P. Bowman,
 
Vice President and CFO
(601) 948-6813
CAL-MAINE FOODS, INC. APPOINTS KEIRA LOMBARDO AS
 
COMPANY’S FIRST CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER
RIDGELAND, Miss.(August 11, 2025)
 
—
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALM (“Cal-Maine Foods” or
the “Company”),today announced the appointment of Keira Lombardo as the Company’s
 
first-ever Chief
Strategy Officer (CSO), effective today.
The creation of this role underscores Cal-Maine Food’s
 
commitment to delivering long-term value
through operational excellence, innovation,
 
and deeper stakeholder
 
engagement. As CSO,
 
Lombardo will
work with
 
the senior
 
leadership team
 
to further
 
accelerate and
 
shape enterprise
 
priorities—building on
 
Cal-
Maine Food’s leadership role in a rapidly changing marketplace.
Lombardo is a
 
seasoned food and
 
agriculture executive
 
with over two
 
decades of experience
 
leading
transformation and
 
growth
 
across complex,
 
multi-stakeholder food
 
systems. She
 
brings
 
a
 
performance-
driven mindset
 
grounded in
 
purpose and
 
a deep
 
commitment to
 
the people
 
and principles
 
that power
 
a
resilient,
 
sustainable
 
food
 
supply—today
 
and
 
for
 
the
 
future.
 
Lombardo
 
most
 
recently
 
served
 
as
 
Chief
Executive Officer
 
of Dairy MAX,
 
a leading
 
dairy organization
 
representing 700 dairy
 
farmers and
 
15% of
the
 
U.S. milk
 
supply. Under
 
her
 
leadership, Dairy
 
MAX
 
implemented an
 
ROI-focused operating
 
model,
aligned its structure, talent, and strategic focus, and elevated
 
dairy as a smart, affordable choice rooted in
wellness,
 
trust,
 
and
 
sustainability.
 
Before
 
joining
 
Dairy
 
MAX,
 
she
 
was
 
a
 
senior
 
executive
 
at
 
Smithfield
Foods, where she played a key role in repositioning the company from a commodity protein producer to a
branded, purpose-driven
 
CPG business—leading
 
functions across
 
corporate affairs,
 
people and
 
culture, and
stakeholder strategy.
Lombardo’s
 
responsibilities
 
at
 
Cal-Maine
 
Foods
 
will
 
include
 
partnering
 
on
 
enterprise
 
strategy,
stakeholder engagement, corporate affairs, public relations, and digital integration.
 
She will work to align
the
 
Company’s internal
 
vision
 
with
 
external priorities,
 
ensuring that
 
purpose, performance,
 
and culture
reinforce one another.
 
“Keira
 
brings
 
a
 
rare
 
combination
 
of
 
strategic
 
discipline,
 
stakeholder
 
fluency,
 
and
 
food
 
system
insight to
 
Cal-Maine Foods,”
 
said Sherman
 
Miller, president
 
and chief
 
executive officer
 
of Cal-Maine
 
Foods.
“Her
 
leadership
 
will
 
support
 
our
 
ability
 
to
 
continue to
 
execute
 
our
 
long-term strategy
 
and
 
leverage
 
our
disciplined capital allocation
 
into meaningful
 
stakeholder returns—partnering
 
with the team
 
to unlock
 
new
growth opportunities,
 
navigate complexity, and strengthen our performance in a dynamic
 
environment.”
Lombardo stated,
 
“Cal-Maine Foods
 
leads with
 
scale and
 
operational strength—and
 
continues to
evolve
 
through
 
innovation,
 
discipline,
 
and
 
strategic
 
focus.
 
I
 
look
 
forward
 
to
 
collaborating
 
with
 
the
leadership team to build on that momentum and help drive long-term
 
value across the business.”
About Cal-Maine Foods
Cal-Maine
 
Foods,
 
Inc.
 
is
 
primarily
 
engaged
 
in
 
the
 
production,
 
packaging,
 
marketing
 
and
distribution
 
of
 
fresh
 
shell
 
eggs,
 
including
 
conventional,
 
cage-free,
 
organic,
 
brown,
 
free-range,
 
pasture-
raised
 
and
 
nutritionally
 
enhanced
 
eggs,
 
as
 
well
 
as
 
a
 
variety
 
of
 
egg
 
products
 
and
 
prepared
 
foods.
 
The
Company, which
 
is headquartered
 
in Ridgeland,
 
Mississippi, is
 
the largest
 
producer and
 
distributor of
 
fresh
shell eggs in the nation and sells most of its shell eggs throughout the majority of the United
 
States.
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