ConAgra Foods, Inc.

Type	Public
Founded	Omaha, NE (1919)
Location	Omaha, NE
Key people	Gary Rodkin, President & CEO
Industry	Food processing
Slogan	The right kind of food company
Products	Raw and prepared foods
Revenue	$14.522 billion USD (2004)
Operating income	{{{operating_income}}}
Net income	{{{net_income}}}
Employees	39,000
Website	www.conagra.com

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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, 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. 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Founder of ConAgra Foods, formerly known as Nebraska Consolodated Mills ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Look up flour on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the year. ... Duncan Hines (March 26, 1880 - March 15, 1959) was a U.S. food critic, born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

In 1971, Consolidated Mills changed its name to ConAgra, short for Consolidate Agriculture. 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 100 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 gutted and sold off 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. 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Banquet Foods was a company that sold food products - primarily frozen chicken - and still exists as the brand name on many prepared chicken products sold by ConAgra Foods. ... RJR Nabisco, Inc. ... The Beatrice Foods Company was a major American food processing company and household name, until it was taken over by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ... A leveraged buyout (or LBO, or highly-leveraged transaction (HLT), or bootstrap transaction) occurs when a financial sponsor gains control of a majority of a target companys equity through the use of borrowed money or debt. ... The 1980s (sometimes refered to as the geighties) in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Nabisco logo Nabisco is a U.S.-based manufacturer of cookies and snacks, including brands such as Chips Ahoy!, Fig Newtons, Mallomars, Oreos, Ritz Crackers, Teddy Grahams, Triscuits, and Wheat Thins. ...

Subsidiaries

• ConAgra Foods Seafood - Institutional seafood sales
  • Louis Kemp - Surimi vendor
  • Meridian - Seafood importer
  • Singleton - Shrimp vendor
• ConAgra Foodservice - Institutional food services
  • Angela Mia - Italian-style food services
  • Award - Comfort foods and side dishes
  • Fernando's - Mexican-style food services
  • Longmont - food services
  • The Max - Pizza ingredients for school cafeterias
• ConAgra Food Ingredients - High volume basic foods
  • Gilroy Foods - Garlic, onion, and peppers
  • ConAgra Mills - Flour and grains
  • Spicetec -Spices and flavouring agents
• ConAgra Packaged Meats and Deli - meats division, based partially on formerly independent, Chicago-based companies
  • Armour
  • Butterball
• J. M. Swank Company - Bulk food distribution and warehousing
• Lamb Weston - Institutional sales of potato products

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Brands

Here is a list of ConAgra's consumer brands as of 2005, according to their website: 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Act II is a brand of popcorn in the United States and Canada that is based on the look and taste of movie theatre popcorn. ... Popcorn popped Popcorn or popping corn is a type of maize which puffs up when it is heated in oil or by dry heat. ... Andy Capps is a brand of flavoured corn and potato snack made to look like french fries. ... French fries (also, less controversially simply fries or chips) are pieces of potato that have been deep-fried. ... Chips is also a name for French fries in Great Britain and Ireland. ... Armour & Co. ... Meat is animal tissue (mainly muscle) used as food. ... Banquet Foods was a company that sold food products - primarily frozen chicken - and still exists as the brand name on many prepared chicken products sold by ConAgra Foods. ... Binomial name Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. ... Big Mama Sausage and Tijuana Mama are brand names of smoked snack sausages, originally owned by Goodmark Foods, but acquired by ConAgra in 1998 when they purchased Goodmark. ... Chinese pork sausages A sausage consists of ground meat (and sometimes other animal parts), herbs and spices, and possibly other ingredients, generally packed in a casing (traditionally the intestines of the animal, though now often synthetic), and preserved in some way, often by curing or smoking. ... Blue Bonnet is a brand of margarine and other bread spreads and baking fats, owned by ConAgra Foods. ... Margarine is a generic term used to indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes. ... Butterball is a brand of turkey and other poultry products produced by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Duck amongst other poultry The Poultry-dealer, after Cesare Vecellio. ... Chef Boyardee in an early television commercial. ... Pasta is a type of food made from flour, water, and sometimes eggs, which is mixed, kneaded and formed into various shapes, and boiled prior to consumption. ... Cooks Ham is a brand of ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Ham with cloves Technically, ham is the thigh and buttock of any animal that is slaughtered for meat, but the term is usually restricted to a cut of pork, the haunch of a pig or boar. ... County Line is a brand of cheese owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of cows, goats, sheep, or other mammals. ... The sunflower seed is the seed of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). ... Cold Cuts was the third live album by English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands. ... Dennisons is a brand of canned chili sold by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... A pot of chili with beans Not quite a soup, Chili con carne (or simply chili) is a spicy stew-like dish, the essential ingredients of which are beef, pork, venison, or other mature meat, and chile peppers. ... Eckrich is a prepared meat brand owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Beef A salt beef with mustard bagel Beef is meat obtained from a bovine. ... Egg Beaters is a product sold as a substitute for whole chicken eggs. ... Tejano is also the name of Texans of Spanish origin. ... For the plant and spice of the same name, see the article on mustard. ... ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... The circled U indicates that this can of tuna is certified kosher by the Union of Orthodox Congregations. ... Cold Cuts was the third live album by English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands. ... Hunts is the name of a brand of tomato sauce made by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Canning is a method of preserving food by first heating it to a temperature that destroys contaminating micro-organisms, and then sealing it in air-tight jars or cans. ... Binomial name Solanum lycopersicum L. The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to Central and South America, from Mexico to Peru. ... Organic Ketchup, a 21st century condiment Ketchup (or catsup) is a popular condiment, usually made with ripened tomatoes. ... Barbecue sauce is a type of sauce which is frequently poured onto meat while being grilled or barbecued and/or used as a dipping condiment afterwards. ... Kickass tasting Snack Pack Hunts Snack Pack Pudding is little pudding cups that come in chocolate, Oreo, Double chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and more. ... Pudding is either of two general types of food, the second deriving from the first. ... WINKY DESSERTS!!!!!! ... Popcorn popped Popcorn or popping corn is a type of maize which puffs up when it is heated in oil or by dry heat. ... Kid Cuisine is a brand of prepared frozen foods for children, marketed by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Knotts Berry Farm is a theme park in Buena Park, California, and a manufacturer of food specialty products (primarily jams and preserves) based in Placentia, California. ... Jam from berries Jam is a type of fruit preserve made by boiling fruit with sugar to make an unfiltered jelly. ... Jelly is a sweet or savoury food gel, usually made through the addition of gelatin or pectin. ... Canning is a method of preserving food by first heating it to a temperature that destroys contaminating micro-organisms, and then sealing it in air-tight jars or cans. ... Binomial name Glycine max Soybeans (US) or soya beans (UK) (Glycine max) are a high-protein legume (Family Fabaceae) grown as food for both humans and livestock. ... Surimi (擂り身, lit. ... Baked beans on scrambled egg on toast. ... A Pizza Margherita made in Naples (Napoli), Italy. ... A brand name canned Sloppy joe product produced by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Sloppy joes are often served with potato chips In the United States, a sloppy joe is a sandwich, typically comprised of ground beef cooked in a skillet with seasoned tomato sauce or tomato paste and spread between two sides of a bun or two slices of bread. ... Marie Callenders is a chain of about 160 restaurants located in the western United States. ... Margarine is a generic term used to indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes. ... Orville Redenbachers is a brand of popcorn founded by Orville Redenbacher in 1971. ... Popcorn popped Popcorn or popping corn is a type of maize which puffs up when it is heated in oil or by dry heat. ... Cooking oil is purified fat of plant or animal origin, which is liquid at room temperature. ... Tex-Mex is a highly spiced and vibrant style of cooking that developed as an evolution of Northern Mexican cuisine in Texas. ... The word jerky comes from the Quechua term charki, meaning dried meat. ... Pickling is the process of preparing a food by soaking and storing it in a brine containing salt, acid (usually vinegar), or both, a process which can preserve otherwise perishable foods for months. ... Peter Pan is the name of a brand of peanut butter produced by ConAgra Foods, and is named after J.M. Barries Peter Pan character. ... Peanut Butter in jar Peanut butter is a food product usually consisting of roasted and ground peanuts, usually salted and sometimes sweetened. ... Baked beans on scrambled egg on toast. ... Refried beans (frijoles refritos) are a Mexican dish of cooked beans, typically black or pinto beans, reheated in cooking oil, traditionally lard but recently vegetable oil. ... Bacon is any of certain cuts of meat taken from the sides or back or belly of a pig, cured and possibly smoked. ... This article is about cream, the food item. ... Ro*tel is the brand name of a line of canned sauces made of tomatoes and green chiles. ... Tomato sauce is a condiment made with tomatoes, and sometimes also ham, onions, basil, salt, oil, garlic, vodka and various spices. ... Slim Jim is a popular brand of beef snack made by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Swiss Miss is a brand name for cocoa powder and pudding products sold by American food giant, ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. ... Hot Chocolate was a British band of the 1960s and 1970s formed by Errol Brown (a Briton born in Jamaica). ... Pudding is either of two general types of food, the second deriving from the first. ... Pudding is either of two general types of food, the second deriving from the first. ... Van Camps is a brand of canned beans owned by ConAgra. ... Wesson cooking oil is a brand of vegetable oil sold by ConAgra Foods. ... Cooking oil is purified fat of plant or animal origin, which is liquid at room temperature. ... A pot of chili with beans Not quite a soup, Chili con carne (or simply chili) is a spicy stew-like dish, the essential ingredients of which are beef, pork, venison, or other mature meat, and chile peppers. ... Wolfgang Puck (born 8 January 1949 in St. ... Wolfgang Puck (born 8 January 1949 in St. ...

External link

• ConAgra Foods, Inc. Web site