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The initial product line featured 26 items, including 18 cuts of frozen meat, spinach and peas, a variety of fruits and berries, blue point oysters, and fish fillets. Consumers liked the new products, and today this is considered the birth of retail frozen foods. The "Birds Eye" name remains a leading frozen-food brand.
Birds Eye is an international brand of frozen foods [1] founded in the United States and now owned by Conagra Brands in the United States, by Nomad Foods in Europe, and Simplot in Australia. The former Birds Eye Company Ltd., originally named "Birdseye Seafood, Inc." had been established in the United States by Clarence Birdseye in 1922 to ...
Agway also owned a significant share of Curtice-Burns Foods of Rochester, New York, from 1966 to 1994, part of the holding company Pro-Fac Cooperative from nearby Pittsford, New York, which included the Birds Eye frozen foods brand. [5] In 1999, Agway sold or closed all its retail outlets and sold its warehouse system to Southern States ...
In May 2014, Hillshire Brands announced it was buying Pinnacle Foods for US$4.23 billion in a cash and stock deal. Pinnacle Foods brands include Birds Eye, Duncan Hines, Hungry-Man and Swanson frozen TV dinners, among many others. [6] Days later, Pilgrim's Pride threatened the deal with its own bid for Hillshire Brands for $6.4 billion. [7]
Nomad Foods is an [3] American-British frozen foods company, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The company's jurisdiction of incorporation is the British Virgin Islands. [2] In 2015, Nomad acquired the Iglo Group. Five countries – the UK, Italy, Germany, France and Sweden – accounted for a combined 75% of its total sales in 2016.
United States stock market 2025 holiday schedule. U.S. stock markets will be closed on the following days in 2025: Good Friday: Friday, April 18. Memorial Day: Monday, May 26. Juneteenth: Thursday ...
Conagra Brands, the maker of Slim Jim beef jerky and Healthy Choice frozen meals, is looking to sell its popular canned pasta brand Chef Boyardee, according to people familiar with the matter. The ...
Birds Eye, a multinational frozen foods company Captain Birdseye, also known as Captain Iglo, the advertising mascot for the Birds Eye frozen food brand in Europe; Birdseye cloth, frequently used in diapers; Birdseye maple, a pattern in certain kinds of timber; Bird's eye maple (mineral property), an effect observed in mica and other crystals