Cheeseburger Produced by Fresh Foods Subsidiary Receives National Award.CLAREMONT, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 1998--The Pierre Jumbo Cheeseburger produced by Pierre Foods, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ., recently won the 1998 "Readers Choice Award" for Food Product of the Year from Automatic Merchandiser, a monthly management magazine for vending professionals. Pierre is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Fresh Foods Inc.(NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : FOOD). Fresh Foods, which operated under the name WSMP WSMP Weapon System Master Plan WSMP Weapon System Modification Process Inc. until May 8, is a North Carolina-based, fully integrated producer and marketer of fully cooked, value-added food products. These include numerous meat products as well as packaged microwaveable sandwiches for foodservice, vending, convenience store and other home meal replacement markets. The company sells its high-quality, value-added products through various distribution channels under the Pierre(TM), Fast Choice(R), and Mom'n'Pop's(R) brand names, which are widely recognized in the food industry. Fresh Foods also sells a variety of sandwiches under several national restaurant brands. Automatic Merchandiser has conducted "Readers Choice" competition in six product categories for five consecutive years. In addition to food, other categories in the competition were pastries, salted snacks, cookies, candy and beverages. Winners in these categories included M&M/Mars Snickers
Snickers is a sweet bar made by Mars, Incorporated. bar, Coke and Frito Lay Chee-tos. "It is exciting for one of our products to win this national award," said Norbert E. "Norb" Woodhams, president of Pierre Foods. "We know we produce an excellent product and its is gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see that others recognize the outstanding quality of our food. It also was very pleasing that our jumbo cheeseburger was in the top ten vote getters among all categories of products." Fresh Foods Inc. completed its acquisition of the core business of Pierre Foods on June 9. Pierre now operates plants in Cincinnati, Ohio and Claremont, N.C. "All of us are very happy about this award," said David R. Clark, Fresh Foods' president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "This type of recognition simply affirms our strong belief in our decision to acquire Pierre Foods. Everyone associated with Pierre is to be congratulated and every employee should be proud of this national award." In addition to Pierre Foods LLC, Fresh Foods is the parent company of Claremont Restaurant Group LLC, through which it owns and operates 63 restaurants and franchises an additional 40 units. Forty-three of the restaurants the company owns and operates are Sagebrush sagebrush, name for several species of Artemisia, deciduous shrubs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), particularly abundant in arid regions of W North America. The common sagebrush (A. (R) Steakhouse & Saloon restaurants. The company also owns and operates 14 Western Steer(R) units, five Prime Sirloin(R) locations and one Bennett's(TM) restaurant. The franchised locations are Western Steer, Prime Sirloin and Bennett's units.
CONTACT: Fresh Foods Inc.
James E. "Jamie" Harris, 828/459-7626
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