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La Choy (stylized La Choy 東) is a brand name of canned and prepackaged American Chinese food ingredients. The brand was purchased in 1990 from Beatrice Foods by ConAgra Foods during the LBO firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ' dismantling of the company and is still currently a property of ConAgra.
Beatrice Foods Company was a major American food conglomerate founded in 1894. [1] [2] One of the best-known food processing companies in the U.S., Beatrice owned many well-known brands such as Tropicana, Krispy Kreme, Jolly Rancher, Orville Redenbacher's, Swiss Miss, Peter Pan, Avis, Milk Duds, Samsonite, Playtex, La Choy and Dannon.
RJR Nabisco had previously sold the Chun King line of frozen foods to ConAgra Foods in 1986. After losing market share, Yeo Hiap Seng sold Chun King in 1995 to Hunt-Wesson, owner of rival La Choy. [3] [4] Hunt-Wesson's parent, ConAgra, eventually closed Chun King's manufacturing facilities in 1995 and discontinued the brand. [5] [6]
"Basically, all food bought in bulk saves not only money because so much is spent on packaging (the popularity of places like Costco and BJ's support this theory)," said Jon Roesser, the general ...
Honey Nut Cheerios. Price: $8.19 Start the morning off right with this breakfast favorite. Each two-box package of Honey Nut Cheerios is now $2.80 off its original online price of $10.99.
Conagra Brands, Inc. (formerly ConAgra Foods) is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.Conagra makes and sells products under various brand names that are available in supermarkets, restaurants, and food service establishments.
Jan-U-Wine was the first canned American Chinese food business in Los Angeles. [1] The proprietor was Peter S. Hyun, a Korean born in 1903. [2] Hyun’s ambition was to become the “Henry Ford of Chinese foods”, with chop suey and chow mein as familiar menu items on American tables as is pork and beans.
The food business of Dial, including Armour Star canned meats, was sold to Pinnacle Foods in March 2006. [17] In 2007 Pinnacle Foods was acquired by the Blackstone Group, a New York City-based private equity firm. [18] Conagra acquired Pinnacle Foods for $10.9 billion in 2018. [19] [20]