ConAgra Foods expanded its Healthy Choice brand with Simply Café Steamers, what is said to be the first and only line of meals that feature a special steaming basket to unlock freshness.
Banquet frozen meals experienced a product re-stage, featuring a variety of improvements, including 25% more food, better protein and improved ingredients.
ConAgra Foods, Inc., Omaha, Neb., announced plans to pursue the separation of the company into two independent public companies—one comprising its robust consumer portfolio of Marie Callender’s, Hunt’s, RO*TEL, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, PAM, Chef Boyardee, Orville Redenbacher’s, P.F. Chang’s and Healthy Choice brands and the other comprising its foodservice portfolio of frozen potato products.
ConAgra Foods, Inc., Omaha, Neb., reached a definitive agreement to sell its private label operations to TreeHouse Foods, Oak Brook, Ill., for approximately $2.7 billion in cash, excluding transaction-related expenses.
AFFI president and CEO Kraig Naasz announced his intent to resign at year’s end to become president and CEO of Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. Meanwhile, SUPERVALU's president and CEO Sam Duncan announced plans to retire, effective February 2016.