International Home Foods

International Home Foods, was an American manufacturer, distributor and marketer of food products, acquired in June 2000 by ConAgra Foods in a $2.9 Billion dollar deal.^[1] Its best known brands were Chef Boyardee pasta products, PAM cooking spray, Bumble Bee Seafood, and Gulden's mustard. International Home Foods was formed in Nov. 1996 when American Home Products spun off its food business, which was acquired by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co.. The latter paid $1.2 Billion to acquire 80% of International Home Foods, and grew it to annual sales of about $2.2 billion before the ConAgra acquisition.^[2]

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ConAgra Foods

Brands and divisions	Act II American Italian Pasta Company Mrs. Grass Mueller's Andy Capp's Banquet Bertolli (frozen foods only) Blue Bonnet Chef Boyardee Crunch 'n Munch David Sunflower Seeds Del Monte (Canada and Mexico) Egg Beaters Fiddle Faddle Fleischmann's Yeast Gulden's Healthy Choice Hebrew National Hunt's Hunt's Snack Pack Jiffy Pop Kid Cuisine La Choy Libby's Manwich Marie Callender's Orville Redenbacher's P. F. Chang's Home Menu PAM Parkay Peter Pan Poppycock Reddi-wip Ro-Tel Ry-Krisp Slim Jim Swiss Miss Van Camp's Wesson Wolf Brand Chili

Acquisitions	Beatrice Foods International Home Foods Lincoln Snacks Company Ralcorp

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