UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C.  20549
 
FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 28, 2013


MGP Ingredients, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
KANSAS
0-17196
45-4082531
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
(Commission
File Number)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 
Cray Business Plaza
100 Commercial Street
Box 130
Atchison, Kansas 66002
 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)


(913) 367-1480
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)


Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)


Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
 
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Item 5.05 Amendments to the Registrant’s Code of Ethics, or Waiver of a Provision of the Code of Ethics.
 
On May 23, 2013 the Board of Directors of MGP Ingredients, Inc. (the “Company”) approved amendments to the Company’s Code of Conduct, which such Code of Conduct is attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 14 and incorporated into this Item 5.05 by reference. The amendments (a) reserve the Company’s right to implement random drug testing of employees and (b) prohibit executive management from having employment other than with the Company, subject to certain limited exceptions.
 
Item 8.01. Other Events.
 
Attached as Exhibit 99.1, and incorporated into this Item 8.01 by reference, is the Company’s Press Release dated May 28, 2013.
 
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
(d) Exhibits.
 
 
14*
Code of Conduct, adopted on May 23, 2013.
 
 
99.1*
Press Release dated May 28, 2013, furnished solely for the purpose of incorporation by reference into Item 8.01 and 9.01.
 
*Filed herewith
 
 
 
 
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 hereunto duly authorized.

 
  MGP INGREDIENTS, INC.
     
     
     
Date:  May 28, 2013 By: /s/Timothy W. Newkirk 
   
Timothy W. Newkirk, Chief Executive Officer