It is also a major supplier to the foodservice industry. Behind the brands is a corporate track record tainted with numerous food and workplace safety controversies as well as other scandals. In it jumped to the number two position behind General Foods with the purchase of food giant Beatrice. ConAgra continued the buying spree, taking on companies such as chicken processor Seaboard Farms and International Home Foods, but it also embarked on a restructuring that involved thousands of layoffs.
In ConAgra had to restate its financial results for three years because its United Agri Products subsidiary had recorded fictitious and deferred revenue.
In the s ConAgra sold off many of its meat and poultry processing operations, its cheese business and the Bumble Bee tuna brand. In ConAgra announced plans to split into two companies through the spinoff of its frozen potato business, Lamb Weston. In ConAgra pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges that its Peavey Grain unit illegally sprayed water on grain stored in elevators in three states to increase its weight and value and also bribed federal inspectors.
In DuCoa L. In the U. Department of Agriculture announced a recall of 19 million pounds of ground beef produced by ConAgra after an outbreak of E. Nineteen people had become ill, and several were hospitalized. In , Nebraska Consolidated Mills changed its name to ConAgra , a combination of con for consolidated and agra , similarly short in English foragriculture. In , C. In response, the company set off on a two-decade-long buying spree, purchasing over one hundred prepared food brands, starting with its 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 s resulted in the divestiture or breakup of many major American consumer product firms.
On May 23, , ConAgra Foods Inc said it would restate its earnings for , and , due to accounting and conduct matters at its United Agri Products Cos unit. Stockholders of Ralcorp Holdings Inc.
The deal is expected to be finished by the end of March, When done, it will make ConAgra the largest private-label packaged food business in the United States. Ajinomoto Co. Its operations are carried out through Almarai Co. Its principal business activities involve manufacturing and trading of dairy and juice products under The Jobbers Canyon district was adjacent to another historic district, the Old Market , which has proved to be an important center of cultural, tourist, and residential development in Omaha.
Omaha's then-planning director, Marty Shukert, said it was more important to keep the city's downtown core healthy than to keep the historic district. Others noted that the district was in disrepair and ConAgra's new headquarters have been an aesthetic and economic improvement for the city. In , Conagra announced the relocation of its headquarters to Chicago in spite of Omaha's demolition of jobbers canyon.
Heinz Co. Although the Proposition was defeated, there was strong consumer backlash against the Coalition's opposition. Consumer advocates encouraged nationwide boycotts of coalition members, and movements were started in several other states to enact similar labeling requirements.
As a result, ConAgra and others in the Coalition met with Walmart the largest food retailer in the US to seek a nationwide labeling system for genetically modified foods, instead of trying to defeat the measures in every state. ConAgra recalled 19 million pounds of ground beef in July with E.
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. In February , ConAgra recalled jars of Peter Pan and Great Value brand peanut butter with the product code "" on the lid, because they were linked to a Salmonella outbreak. Ultimately, the Centers for Disease Control CDC documented more than individuals who were stricken with salmonella poisoning in 47 states that could be traced back to Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter.
On September 4, , the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association recommended reduction of diacetyl in butter-like flavorings, such as those used in popcorn, due to cases of the potentially fatal disease bronchiolitis obliterans or "Popcorn Workers's Lung" appearing among plant workers exposed to diacetyl fumes, as well as in one case that involved a popcorn consumer. On October 11, , ConAgra asked stores to pull the Banquet and generic brand chicken and turkey pot pies due to cases of Salmonella poisoning in 31 states being linked to the consumption of ConAgra pot pies, with 20 people hospitalized.
ConAgra said the issue stemmed from pies not being cooked thoroughly in older microwaves, and that the package's heating instructions would be changed to reflect different microwaves.
The recalled pot pies included all varieties in 7-oz. Public interest groups criticized ConAgra for the delay in issuing the recall, a decision which ConAgra defended by saying the recall was a precaution. At the time of the recall, the USDA had still not identified the source of the salmonella contamination. On June 9, at am ET, an explosion rocked the Slim Jim manufacturing plant in Garner , North Carolina resulting in the collapse of a section of the facility's roof and wall.
Four workers were killed while 67 others — including three firefighters — were hospitalized for burns and exposure to ammonia gases. The explosion happened when natural gas was purged into the interior of the building during commissioning of a new, gas-fired water heater. On March 3, , ConAgra announced that the Garner plant would close in approximately 18 months, and Slim Jim production would be moved to a plant located in Troy , Ohio. From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core.
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