ST. LOUIS, March 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectrum
Brands, Inc. – Pet, Home & Garden Division employees rolled up
their sleeves to give back to the community recently during a
team-building exercise at the company's weeklong National Sales
& Marketing Meeting at St. Louis Union Station. More than 250
employees from across the country raced to prepare 62,000 meals for
St. Louis-area families in only 45
minutes.
As part of a Feed the Funnel program with The Pack Shack, an
organization that works with groups and businesses across the
country to organize meal-packing events to benefit their own
communities, teams formed stations to assemble, weigh, seal and box
nutritious, shelf-stable food. All of the meals will be distributed
locally through the St. Louis Area Foodbank to help feed local
families in need.
"Our Pet, Home & Garden Division is located right here in
St. Louis," said Randy Lewis, Senior Vice President and General
Manager, Spectrum Brands, Inc. – Pet, Home & Garden Division.
"Employees really valued the opportunity to spend time together and
benefit such a great local cause."
The St. Louis Area Foodbank is the largest food assistance
provider in the bi-state region. It enables more than 500 agencies,
homeless shelters and soup kitchens to serve 3 million meals per
month.
The Pack Shack Feed the Funnel parties are designed to provide
meals and promote awareness about hunger nationwide in a fun
environment for groups. The Spectrum Brands employees who
participated were encouraged to take their enthusiasm back home and
volunteer in their own communities.
About Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.
Spectrum Brands Holdings (NYSE: SPB), a member of the Russell
1000 Index, is a global and diversified consumer products company
and a leading supplier of consumer batteries, residential locksets,
residential builders' hardware, faucets, shaving and grooming
products, personal care products, small household appliances,
specialty pet supplies, lawn and garden and home pest control
products, personal insect repellents and auto care products.
For more information, visit
www.spectrumbrands.com.
About The Pack Shack
The Pack Shack brings
people together for crazy fun Feed the Funnel parties to pack
thousands of delicious, healthy meals for local nonprofits across
the country. For more information, visit
www.thepackshack.org.
About The St. Louis Area Foodbank
The St. Louis
Area Foodbank is a non-profit 501(c)(3) food distribution center
for organizations that feed hungry people in 14 counties in eastern
Missouri and 12 counties in southwestern Illinois. The foodbank
distributed roughly 35 million pounds of food in FY2016 through its
network of food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters and
senior centers.
Media Contact:
Connie
Caldwell
(314) 683-2460
connie.caldwell@spectrumbrands.com
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