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ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) is one of North America's largest packaged foods companies. ConAgra's products are available in supermarkets, as well as restaurants and food service establishments. Its headquarters are located in Omaha, Nebraska. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Gary Rodkin is the current CEO and President of ConAgra, one of the largest food processing companies in North America. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Largest metro area Omaha Area Ranked 16th - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 430 miles (690 km) - % water 0. ...
History ConAgra was founded in 1919 by Alva Kinney, who brought together four grain mills as Nebraska Consolidated Mills. In 1940, it began producing flour at its own mill, and in 1942 ventured into the livestock feed business. Consolidated Mills funded the establishment of Duncan Hines in 1951 as a way to market more flour by selling cake mixes. This venture was very successful, in fact now they are the third largest flour miller, but did not lead Consolidated to consider other food ventures. Instead, they sold their assets in Duncan Hines to Procter & Gamble in 1956. As American households purchased more and more prepared and instant foods in the 1950s and 1960s, Consolidated chose not to expand into the businesses that used their flour, instead turning in the opposite direction and focusing more on raw foods like poultry and expanding its livestock feed business. Founder of ConAgra Foods, formerly known as Nebraska Consolodated Mills ...
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In 1971, Consolidated Mills changed its name to ConAgra, a combination of con for consolidated and agra meaning from the earth in Latin. The 1970s brought the company to the brink of ruin as it lost money expanding into the fertilizer, catfish, and pet product industries and as commodity speculation wiped out ConAgra's margins on raw foods. In 1974, Charles M. Harper ("Mike" Harper), an experienced food industry executive, took over the firm and brought it back from the brink of bankruptcy. Nonetheless, ConAgra's business model left it at the mercy of volatile commodity prices. In response, the company set off on a two-decade-long buying spree, purchasing over one hundred prepared food brands starting with its 1980 purchase of Banquet Foods. It moved heavily into the frozen food business and the packaged meat industry, and then picked up a selection of other brands from firms like RJR Nabisco and Beatrice Foods among others, as the leveraged buyouts of the 1980s resulted in the divestiture or breakup of many major American consumer product firms. In 1993 alone it purchased $500 million in smaller firms, and in 1998 it purchased another $480 million in brands from Nabisco. Consolidated may refer to: Consolidated (band) Consolidated Aircraft (later Convair) the aircraft manufacturer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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Governance The board of directors are: Mogens Bay, Stephen Butler, John Chain, Steven Goldstone, Alice Hayes, W.G. Jurgensen, Ruth Ann Marshall, Mark Rauenhorst, Carl Reichardt, Gary Rodkin, Ronald Roskens, Andrew Schinler and Kenneth Stinson [1]. In relation to a company, a director is an officer (that is, someone who works for the company) charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ...
John T. Chain, Jr. ...
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Gary Rodkin is the current CEO and President of ConAgra, one of the largest food processing companies in North America. ...
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ConAgra produces a wide array of food products, including cooking oil, frozen dinners, hot cocoa, hot dogs, peanut butter and many others. Some of ConAgra's major brands include This article is a list of brands under the North American packaged foods company ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
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Healthy Choice is the name of a brand of refrigerated and frozen foods owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
Kid Cuisine is a brand of pre-packaged frozen dinners for children, marketed by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
Marie Callenders is a chain of 139 restaurants located in the western United States. ...
Hebrew National is a brand of kosher hot dogs and sausages made by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
Hunts is the name of a brand of tomato sauce made by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
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Peter Pan is a brand of peanut butter produced by ConAgra Foods and named after the J.M. Barrie character. ...
Swiss Miss is a brand name for cocoa powder and pudding products sold by American food giant, ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
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Social and environmental record
Environmental record ConAgra has been criticized for its lack of response to global warming. A 2006 report by CERES, a non-profit organization that works to address global climate change and other sustainability issues, titled "Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection," measures how 100 leading global companies are responding to global warming. Companies in the report were evaluated on a 0 to 100 scale. ConAgra scored a total of 4 points, the lowest of any of the food companies rated.[2] Look up Ceres in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
In 2003-2004, ConAgra participated in a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency voluntary investigation and clean-up program. Through the program, the company cleaned up a property previously used for lithium ore processing and constructed a new 80,000 square foot (7,000 m²) office/warehouse building. [3]
Labor record In May 2003, ConAgra and its subsidiary Gilroy Foods agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle charges of hiring discrimination brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The charges involved a July 1999 Teamsters strike at a plant in King City, then owned by Basic Vegetable Products LP but later purchased by ConAgra. In August 2001, the company successfully negotiated with the union to end the two-year strike with a new contract that would recall workers based on seniority. However, the recall process excluded workers who were on leave at the time of the purchase including those out due to work injury or pregnancy. Others were denied jobs due to a history of previous injury or illness, despite their having no restrictions on returning to work. According to the EEOC, most of the 39 workers who were excluded from the recall process had been working at the plant for 10 to 20 years and were primarily Hispanic and female. [4] The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, is a United States federal agency tasked with ending employment discrimination in the United States. ...
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The company's Greeley Colorado plant had been cited almost 10 times from 1999 to 2002 for violating worker safety[5]. Greeley is a city located in Weld County, Colorado. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area Ranked 8th - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²) - Width 280 miles (451 km) - Length 380 miles (612 km) - % water 0. ...
Health record In 2001, the U.S. Department of Agriculture halted operations at two ConAgra plants because of health violations. The company was threatened with shutdowns at least a half dozen more times. [citation needed] The ConAgra facility in Longmont, Colorado, had the highest rate of salmonella among all the turkey processors tested by the Department during 2001. Nearly half of the turkeys processed at ConAgra’s Longmont, Colorado, facility were contaminated with harmful Salmonella bacteria, compared with a rate of 13 percent for the industry at large.[6] The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA, is a Cabinet department of the United States Federal Government. ...
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In 2002, ConAgra, together with other major food and beverage companies including PepsiCo, General Mills, Kellogg, Sara Lee, and H.J. Heinz Co., spent heavily to defeat Oregon's measure 27, which would have required food companies to label products that contain genetically modified ingredients.[7] According to the Oregon Secretary of State, ConAgra contributed $71,000 to the campaign to defeat the ballot initiative.[8] PepsiCo, Incorporated (NYSE: PEP) is a global American beverage and snack company. ...
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Sara Lee Corporation (NYSE: SLE) is an American consumer-goods company based in Illinois. ...
H. J. Heinz Company, commonly known as just Heinz, famous for its 57 Varieties slogan, was founded in 1869 by Henry John Heinz in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. ...
Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
Ethical record In 1997 ConAgra pled guilty to federal criminal charges that its Peavey Grain unit illegally sprayed water on stored grain to increase its weight and value and also bribed Federal inspectors. The company agreed to pay $8.3 million to resolve the charges, which included a $4.4 million criminal fine, $3.45 million as compensation for illegal profits and $450,000 to reimburse the U.S. Department of Agriculture for storage and investigation expenses. ConAgra had also paid $2 million to settle a related civil case filed by a group of Indiana farmers. [9] Multinational Monitor, a corporate watchdog organization, named ConAgra one of the 'Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s'.[10] The word grain has several meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. ...
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Notable recalls ConAgra recalled 19 million pounds of ground beef in July of 2002 with bacterial contamination. It was the third-largest recall up to that time. That meat was linked to the illnesses of 19 people in six Western and Midwestern states. [1] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 425 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1834 × 2588 pixel, file size: 729 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Mmmmm!! yum! potentially salmonella contaminated jar of Peter Pan with 2111 product code. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 425 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1834 × 2588 pixel, file size: 729 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Mmmmm!! yum! potentially salmonella contaminated jar of Peter Pan with 2111 product code. ...
Species Salmonella bongori Salmonella enterica Salmonella arizonae Salmonella enteritidis Salmonella typhi Salmonella typhimurium Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria that causes typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, and foodborne illness. ...
Peter Pan is a brand of peanut butter produced by ConAgra Foods and named after the J.M. Barrie character. ...
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Image:Minced beef USDA.jpg Minced beef in industrial grinder Ground beef, beef mince or hamburger meat, is a meat product, made of beef finely chopped by a meat grinder. ...
In February of 2007, ConAgra recalled jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter with the product code "2111" on the lid; since Peter Pan (but not Great Value) is only made at one plant, this turned out to include all Peter Pan jars sold in the U.S. since May 2006. These jars were linked to a salmonella outbreak, that, as of February 15, 2007, has caused illness in 288 people in 39 states. [2] Peter Pan is a brand of peanut butter produced by ConAgra Foods and named after the J.M. Barrie character. ...
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Species Salmonella bongori Salmonella enterica Salmonella arizonae Salmonella enteritidis Salmonella typhi Salmonella typhimurium Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria that causes typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, and foodborne illness. ...
See also This article is a list of brands under the North American packaged foods company ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
References
External links - ConAgra Foods, Inc. Web site
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