Press release from Business Wire
Unilever Completes Sale of Frozen Meals Portfolio in North America
Monday, August 20, 2012
Unilever Completes Sale of Frozen Meals Portfolio in North America12:45 EDT Monday, August 20, 2012
LONDON & ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Business Wire) -- Unilever today announced that it has completed the sale of its North
America frozen meals business, conducted under the Bertolli and P.F.
Chang's brand names, to ConAgra Foods, Inc., for total cash
consideration of $267 million, subject to adjustment.
Under the terms of the transaction, Unilever licensed the Bertolli brand
name to ConAgra Foods for use in the frozen meals business and
transferred its existing license with P.F. Chang's for use of the P.F.
Chang's Home Menubrand name. Unilever will retain the Bertolli
trademark and continue manufacturing Bertolli pasta sauce at its
Owensboro, Ky., facility.
About Unilever North America:
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast moving consumer
goods with strong operations in more than 100 countries and sales in
190. With products that are used over two billion times a day around the
world, we work to create a better future every day and help people feel
good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that
are good for them and good for others. In the United States and Canada
the portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Becel, Ben & Jerry's,
Bertolli, Breyers, Caress, Clear Scalp & Hair Therapy, Consort For Men,
Country Crock, Degree, Dove personal care products, fds, Good Humor,
Hellmann's, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!, Just for Me!, Klondike,
Knorr, Lever 2000, Lipton, Magnum, Motions, Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond's,
Popsicle, Promise, Q-tips, Ragu, Simple, Skippy, Slim-Fast, Soft &
Beautiful, St. Ives, Suave, tcb, TIGI, TRESemmé, Vaseline, and
Wish-Bone. All of the preceding brand names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies. Dedicated to serving
consumers and the communities where we live, work and play, Unilever
employs more than 13,000 people across North America –generating over $9
billion in sales in 2011. For more information visit www.unileverusa.com
or www.unilever.ca.
About ConAgra Foods, Inc.:
ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG), is one of North America's leading food
companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households. Consumers
find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Hebrew National, Hunt's,
Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip,
Slim Jim, Snack Pack and many other ConAgra Foods brands in grocery,
convenience, mass merchandise and club stores. ConAgra Foods also has a
strong business-to-business presence, supplying frozen potato and sweet
potato products as well as other vegetable, spice and grain products to
a variety of well-known restaurants, foodservice operators and
commercial customers. For more information, please visit us at http://www.conagrafoods.com.
Unilever US Media Relations:Jeff Graubard, 201-894-7760MediaRelations.USA@unilever.comorUnilever
London office:Trevor Gorin, +44 207 822 6010orUnilever
Rotterdam office:Flip Dotsch, +31 10 2173715
