Word: banqueting
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...company's products are household names: Armour packaged meats, Banquet frozen foods and Country Pride chickens. But not many consumers have heard of ConAgra, the Omaha-based company behind those labels. Unlike such food combines as General Mills and Pillsbury, which invest millions to promote their identity, ConAgra has preferred to remain the quiet, self-effacing giant of the industry...
Harper proved to be a smart shopper. After buying Banquet Foods for the bargain price of $50 million in 1980, Harper revived the frozen-dinner company by adding 90 new selections. In the Beatrice deal, Harper reportedly picked up the company for less than half the price initially sought by financiers Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Harper's management philosophy is to allow each ConAgra unit a high degree of autonomy. "We have more presidents than banks have vice presidents," he says. ConAgra's low-key style has paid off handsomely for shareholders. After ten years of record earnings, ConAgra stock that...
...move has been enthusiastically embraced by members of the two teams. Following the squads' banquets this spring--which were held separately--the captain s of the two squads requested that Piltch schedule a combined banquet next year...
...Thanks for putting up with me," Jonathan D. Springer '90 told his peers at Hillel's farewell banquet for seniors...
...several American generations, a child's first entertainment experience was a Disney cartoon, with its wrenching traumas of betrayal, abandonment, a mother's death. An animated film could thrill a child to pieces or scare him near to death. And it introduced him to the beautiful and frightening banquet of popular culture...