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Conagra to buy Pinnacle Foods and more frozen staples

Jun 29, 2018
Conagra already owned frozen food aisle staples Healthy Choice and Marie Callender’s. Now with the acquisition of Pinnacle Foods for $8.2 billion, it’ll own other frozen food staples like Hungry Man dinners and Birds Eye vegetables. Together, all those foods will create a conglomerate worth an estimated $11 billion in annual sales. But as customers […]

ConAgra buys into private label's success

Nov 27, 2012
Food giant sees Ralcorp purchase as a way to enter the growing store brand market.

ConAgra to buy Ralcorp for $4.95 billion

Nov 27, 2012
Giant food company ConAgra is getting a little more giant. It's agreed to buy private-label food producer Ralcorp for about $4.95 billion.