Pinnacle Foods Inc Fund Company Profile

Description

Pinnacle Foods Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and distributes branded convenience food products in North America. It operates through three segments: Birds Eye Frozen, Duncan Hines Grocery, and Specialty Foods. The Birds Eye Frozen segment offers frozen vegetables, frozen complete bagged meals, frozen meat/poultry substitutes, frozen prepared seafood, frozen and refrigerated bagels, frozen pizza for one, full-calorie single-serve frozen dinners and entrées, and frozen pancakes/waffles/French toast under the Birds Eye, Birds Eye Voila!, Van de Kamp's, gardein, Mrs. Paul's, Lender's, Celeste, Hungry-Man, and Aunt Jemima brand names. The Duncan Hines Grocery segment provides cake/brownie mixes and frostings, muffin and cookie mixes, shelf-stable pickles and salad dressings, table syrup, canned meat, pie/pastry fruit fillings, and barbecue sauces under the Duncan Hines, Vlasic, Wish-Bone, Western, Mrs. Butterworth's, Log Cabin, Armour, Brooks, Nalley, Comstock, Wilderness, Bernstein's, and Open Pit brand names. The Specialty Foods segment offers snack products under the Hawaiian kettle style chips, Tim’s Cascade, Snyder of Berlin, and Husman’s brand names; and is involved in food service and private label businesses. The company sells its products through supermarkets, grocery wholesalers and distributors, mass merchandisers, super centers, convenience stores, dollar stores, natural and organic food stores, drug stores, and warehouse clubs in the United States and Canada, as well as in military channels and foodservice locations. Pinnacle Foods Inc. is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.