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Duncan Hines' innovation for
2020 to include Oreo co-branding
CHICAGO - Duncan Hines' innovation in 2020 will feature refreshed
packaging, keto-friendly cakes and cobranding with Oreo.
"We're also making great progress
on our work to reframe Duncan Hines
as a sweet treat to unlock significant
growing demand spaces," said Sean
M. Connolly, president and chief executive officer of Conagra Brands, in a
Dec. 19 earnings call to discuss secondquarter financial results. "Our strategy includes refreshed packaging, fun
and novel flavors, and new shelf-stable

Conagra Brands' acquisition of Pinnacle Foods completed in October 2018.
Net sales for Chicago-based Conagra
Brands in the second quarter ended
Nov. 24, 2019, increased 18% to $2,820.8
and frozen snacking platforms."
million, which compared with
Work on shelf-stable baking
$2,383.7 million in the second
mixes in the first half of the
quarter of the previous year.
fiscal year resulted in share
Pinnacle Foods accounted
gains as the holiday baking
for a 20% sales increase, but
season kicked off, he said.
a 2.9% net decrease came from
"We're building on this
business divestitures. Organic
momentum by introducing
net sales increased 1.6%. Net
more innovation in the second
income of $260.5 million, or 53c
half, including on-trend, ketoper share on the common stock,
friendly cakes and co-branded
was up 98% from $131.6 million,
Oreo cake cups," Mr. Connolly DUNCAN HINES
or 31c per share, in the second quarter
said.
The Duncan Hines brand was part of of the previous year. MBN

National Day Calendar certifies
March 20 as World Flour Day
WITTENBURG, GERMANY - The
National Day Calendar has officially
certified March 20 as World Flour Day.
The day falls in the middle of the solstice, which varies between March 1921. In the northern hemisphere it marks
the beginning of spring and planting
while in the southern hemisphere, it
represents autumn and harvesting.
"At last we have one day in the year
that reminds us to appreciate our daily
flour - the white gold of life," said

been for thousands of years.
Established in Wittenburg in 2008,
the museum houses the world's biggest collection of flour sacks. According to the museum, the motifs on the
3,500 sacks from 140 countries testify

to the pride of the millers and tell
surprising, moving and sometimes
incredible stories of what corn, flour
and bread mean to people all over
the world. In a cultural and historical tour, the FlourWorld Museum
illuminates the effects flour had on
mankind between the Neolithic and
the Industrial Revolution and will
continue to have in the future. MBN

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WOLRD FLOUR DAY

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Carsten Blum of FlourWorld Museum,
which initiated creation of the day.
Millers, bakers, confectioners and
pasta manufacturers will use this day
to draw attention to the significance
and diversity of flour products with
their creative activities.
With the new World Flour Day, the
FlourWorld Museum draws attention
to the civilizing power flour has.
"Flour has secured man's survival
for thousands of years," said Volkmar
Wywiol, founder of the FlourWorld
Museum.
Products made from flour are the
daily food of billions of people. All over
the world, flour is made into foods like
bread, biscuits, cake, pasta and many
other goods. It is one of mankind's
most important staple foods and has
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