Blue Bird Corporation BLBD Lump sum distribution

During the latter part of fiscal 2025, the Company initiated actions to terminate its Defined Benefit Pension Plan (the "Plan"). While such actions continued during the first two quarters of fiscal 2026, none of them resulted in a significant financial impact for the Plan or Company. However, during the third quarter of fiscal 2026, the pension benefits earned by the majority of Plan participants were settled via (i) lump-sum cash payments and (ii) the purchase of group annuity contracts from Pacific Life Insurance Company and Pacific Life & Annuity Company (collectively, “Pacific Life”) that irrevocably transferred the future benefit obligations and annuity administration for 2,044 Plan participants or their beneficiaries (“Transferred Participants”) to Pacific Life. This transfer did not affect the amount of the (i) future benefit obligations or (ii) monthly benefit payments for the Transferred Participants, both of which are irrevocably guaranteed by Pacific Life, with Pacific Life assuming responsibility for disbursing monthly benefit payments effective August 1, 2026. The $92.1 million total amount paid for the lump-sum distributions and purchase of the group annuity contracts was funded entirely from Plan assets, with no additional funding required by the Company as part of these transactions.