ConAgra Foods, Inc.

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ConAgra Foods Partners with Yahoo! to Show Consumers What s So Funny? [Press Release]
Business Wire | 8 days 17 hours 12 minutes ago
ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG), one of North America’s leading food makers, announced today its plan to engage consumers through the sponsorship of Yahoo!’s new online program, “What’s So Funny?” The one-year commitment will integrate ConAgra Foods brands such as Marie Callender’s®, Healthy Choice® and Orville Redenbacher’s® into the content of the online series, which premiered Nov. 9, on Yahoo! TV.


ConAgra Foods to Reduce Sodium in Products by 20 Percent by 2015 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 40 days 12 hours 37 minutes ago
ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America’s leading food makers, today announced its pledge to reduce salt across its portfolio of food products by 20 percent by 2015. Since 2006, the company has already removed more than 2 million pounds of salt from it products. Today’s pledge adds 8 million pounds of salt to the equation, with the company ultimately removing 10 million pounds of salt from American diets each year.


ConAgra Foods Kid Cuisine Brand Launches Integrated Marketing Promotion with Planet 51TM Animated Movie [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 12 hours 20 minutes ago
ConAgra Foods’ Kid Cuisine® brand announced today a new, fully integrated marketing promotion with Columbia Pictures’ “Planet 51TM”. The animated adventure comedy opens nationwide tomorrow.


ConAgra Foods to Sponsor National Grocers Association s 24th Annual Best Bagger Championships in Las Vegas [Press Release]
Business Wire | 43 days 16 hours 42 minutes ago
ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it will sponsor the 24th annual National Grocers Association Best Bagger Championship to be held Feb. 11, 2010, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas. The Best Bagger Championship is a year-long, nationwide program in which the best-of-the-best grocery baggers in the country compete for cash prizes and the title of America’s Best Bagger. Contestants are judged on speed, bag-building technique, weight distribution between bags, style, at...


ConAgra to cut sodium in food products by 20 pct
Richmond Times-Dispatch (Va.) | 40 days 9 hours 46 minutes ago
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- ConAgra Foods Inc. will cut sodium from the food it manufactures by 20 percent in the next five years, the maker of Chef Boyardee and Hebrew National said Thursday.


ConAgra Foods Executive Joins Violin Memory Industry Advisory Board [Press Release]
MarketWire | 35 days 14 hours 11 minutes ago
SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/20/09 -- Violin Memory, Inc., provider of the world's fastest and most scalable memory appliances, today announced that Gerrit Schutté, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of ConAgra Foods, Inc., is the latest executive to join the company's Industry Advisory Board. Schutté will advise Violin's executive management team in support of its goal to accelerate adoption of the company's silicon storage solutions as a fundamental technology in the...


ConAgra spreads some Parkay love with iPhone app
Boston Globe, The | 38 days 1 hour 50 minutes ago
OMAHA, Neb.ConAgra Foods wants to reinvent the classic advertising argument over how its Parkay margarine compares to butter with an iPhone application.


ConAgra Foods Parkay Table Spread Brand Unveils New, Free Talking Tub iPhone Application [Press Release]
Business Wire | 42 days 11 hours 9 minutes ago
ConAgra Foods’ Parkay® brand has launched a new, free iPhone application that uses an innovative new voice-to-animation technology to bring the brand’s iconic “Talking Tub” to life. In the just-released application, voice recognition commands the Talking Tub to say “Parkaaaay” and “moo” when the user says words like “butter” or “milk.” The first-generation application is available for free at: http://tinyurl.com/ParkayApp.


ConAgra Foods Manwich Brand Launches New TV Campaign Promoting Full Serving of Vegetables [Press Release]
Business Wire | 32 days 14 hours 34 minutes ago
ConAgra Foods’ Manwich® brand announced this week a new television advertising campaign promoting the full serving of vegetables found in each serving of Manwich. A standard quarter-cup serving of Manwich Original contains a half-cup of vegetables, making it easier for consumers to get their recommended five servings of vegetables and fruit each day.


Fitch: U.S. Packaged Foods Industry to Benefit from Value-Focused Consumers in 2010 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 17 hours 35 minutes ago
Fitch Ratings expects consumers to remain value conscious when making food purchase decisions in 2010, which will support the stable outlook for U.S. packaged foods companies. Although the economy has started to recover, unemployment has reached 10 percent and is expected to remain high, which will weigh heavily on consumer spending. This value focus provides both pros and cons for packaged foods companies, which benefit from consumers' propensity to eat at home more often, but face weaker op...


Marie Callender's Introduces New Lunch Option That Brings a Little Touch of Home to Work [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 41 days 14 hours 12 minutes ago
...more information, please visit www.madewithloveandcare.com Marie Callender's(R) is a brand of ConAgra Foods, Inc. . ConAgra Foods is one of North America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households...


New Research Shows Healthy Choice Meals Can Help Curb Pre-Diabetes [Press Release]
Business Wire | 28 days 12 hours 12 minutes ago
Over 40 percent of American adults are pre-diabetic, a condition that is the forerunner to Type 2 diabetes, the life-threatening disease that impacts more than 23 million people in the U.S. Yet pre-diabetic Americans are generally unaware of their status and health risk.1 Now, ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG), one of North America’s leading food makers, is shedding new light on the problem by sharing research that shows a specific type of healthier eating has a measurable impact on pre-diabetic cond...


Critical Alerts for AIG, Dell, Aflac, ConAgra Foods, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals Released by Seven Summits Research [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 76 days 17 hours 39 minutes ago
...Today's PriceWatch Alerts cover the following stocks: American International Group, Inc. , Dell Inc. , AFLAC Inc. , ConAgra Foods, Inc. , and Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. . In today's unsure markets these brief PriceWatch Alerts contain...


Ace Metrix Adds Analytics Software Veteran Greg Drew to Board of Directors [Press Release]
Business Wire | 1 day 20 hours 12 minutes ago
Ace Metrix™, the leader in on-demand television advertising intelligence, today announced that Greg Drew has joined its Board of Directors as an independent director.


Hebrew National(R) Makes a 'Frank' Decision: Free Hot Dogs for Fans The Next Time a Pro Football Player Eats a Sideline Dog [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 27 days 11 hours 16 minutes ago
...26, 2010. Hebrew National(R), a brand of ConAgra Foods, Inc., , began in 1905 when Isadore Pinckowitz sold...Blanket and Cocktail Franks, sidesand condiments ConAgra Foods is one of North America's largest packaged food...





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Company Overview


Company: ConAgra Foods, Inc.
Industry: Canned & Frozen Foods
Website: http://www.conagra.com

ConAgra Foods fills Americans' refrigerators, freezers, and pantries and, ultimately, their tummies. The company is a US top food producer, offering packaged and frozen foods. ConAgra's brands are a cornucopia of America's well-known foods, including Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hunt's, Jiffy, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Slim Jim, and Van Camp's. It is also one of the country's largest foodservice suppliers, offering them convenience foods and ingredients. The company has sold off its agricultural segments and a number of non-core brands in order to concentrate on branded and value-added packaged foods.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 12,731.2 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Sales 9.7 (2009)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 978.4 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Net Income 5.1 (2009)
Number of Employees 25,600 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees 2.4 (2009)
Fiscal Year-End May