ConAgra Foods to Sponsor National Grocers Association’s 24th Annual Best Bagger Championships in Las Vegas

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it will sponsor the 24th annual National Grocers Association Best Bagger Championship to be held Feb. 11, 2010, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas. The Best Bagger Championship is a year-long, nationwide program in which the best-of-the-best grocery baggers in the country compete for cash prizes and the title of America’s Best Bagger. Contestants are judged on speed, bag-building technique, weight distribution between bags, style, attitude and appearance.

With ConAgra Foods’ sponsorship, N.G.A. has increased the prize money for contestants. This year, the winning bagger will receive a grand prize of $10,000, the second place contestant will earn $5,000 and third through fifth place winners will receive $1,000 each. Best Bagger 2010 also features a new logo that will be displayed on new, reusable bags contestants will fill as they race against time and display their bagging technique. The environmentally friendly bags replace paper and plastic bags used in previous contests.

“N.G.A. looks forward to teaming up with ConAgra Foods for the National Best Bagger Championship,” said Frank DiPasquale, executive vice president, N.G.A. “This new partnership will enable N.G.A. and our members to further promote a long-standing program that represents an important element in providing outstanding customer service in an area where independent community-focused retailers excel.”

The Best Bagger contest has showcased the importance of supermarket customer service for 24 years by creating excitement and enthusiasm for bagging. “We think this is a perfect partnership for us, because millions of ConAgra Foods products are bagged at supermarkets across America each day, and many of our customers are N.G.A. members,” said Teresa Paulsen, vice president of Corporate Communication, ConAgra Foods. “Whether it’s Hunt’s, Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice, Orville Redenbacher’s or one of our other famous brands, a ConAgra Foods product is likely to be in the bag, and we want to strengthen the connection between our company name and the food people love.”

About ConAgra Foods

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) is one of North America’s leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America’s households. Consumers find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt’s, Marie Callender’s, Orville Redenbacher’s, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip and many ConAgra Foods brands in grocery, convenience, mass merchandise and club stores. ConAgra Foods also has a strong business-to-business presence, supplying potato, other vegetable, spice and grain products to a variety of well-known restaurants, foodservice operators and commercial customers. For more information, please visit us at www.conagrafoods.com.

About The National Grocers Association (N.G.A.)

N.G.A. is the national trade association representing the retail and wholesale grocers that comprise the independent sector of the food distribution industry. An independent retailer is a privately owned or controlled food retail company operating a variety of formats. Most independent operators are serviced by wholesale distributors, while others may be partially or fully self-distributing. Some are publicly traded but with controlling shares held by the family and others are employee owned. Independents are the true "entrepreneurs" of the grocery industry and dedicated to their customers, associates, and communities. N.G.A. members include retail and wholesale grocers, state grocers associations, as well as manufacturers and service suppliers. For more information about N.G.A. and the independent sector of the industry, see the N.G.A. website: www.NationalGrocers.org.

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