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U.S. market continues to challenge
Hain Celestial Group

Kellogg looking beyond cereal,
seeking growth in snacks
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aim to stabilize it," he said, adding, "You
shouldn't look at U.S. Morning Foods and
say this is going to be the growth engine
for the Kellogg Co."
Cereal sales have struggled in recent
years as American consumers opt for
protein bars and other portable items for
breakfast. In the recent quarter, Kellogg
introduced Special K with probiotics to
tap into consumer interest in digestive
health. The company also rolled out
Chocolate Frosted Flakes. Meanwhile,
net sales of the company's U.S. Morning
Foods segment fell 5% on a currency-neutral basis in the fourth quarter
and full year. Brand building and "constant innovation" are needed to reverse

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told investment analysts during a Feb. 8
earnings call.
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November aaveraged $4.73 a bu, up
and up 85c from
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Agricultural Prices report. Durum
$6.53 a bu, up 12c from
averaged $6
October and up 53c from November
2016. Spring wheat other than durum
$5.78 a bu, up 23c from
averaged $5
October and up $1.30 from a year
earlier, with hard red spring at $5.89 a
bu, up 16c and
an up $1.35, respectively.
wheat averaged $4.07 a bu,
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Stephens, Inc., New York; Kevin V. Dreyer, co-chief investment officer, value,
Gabelli Funds, New York; and Nicholas
Fereday, senior analyst, consumer foods,
Rabobank, New York.
Each of the analysts cited changes in
food retailing as a key market influence
in 2017, notably the acquisition last year
of Whole Foods Market, Austin, Texas,
by Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle.
"A lot of (the food sector weakness)
has to do with the upheaval in retail -
Aldi /Lidl and Whole Foods/Amazon,"
Mr. Hundley said.
Food companies and retailers will adjust

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MINNEAPOLIS - Although scanner
data suggest the overall ready-to-eat
cereal category is down 2% to 3% yearover-year, General Mills, Inc. likes the
way it's competing in the sector right
now, said Jonathon J. Nudi, senior
vice-president and group president of
North America Retail.

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR

"When you look at our performance
through the first half, our change in
trend is pretty significant, and nearly
70% of that change is from baseline
sales," Mr. Nudi explained during a Dec.
20 conference call with analysts to discuss second-quarter results. "So again,
it's really better innovation and better
marketing that's driving our results in
the category. And that's really been the
recipe for success in the category over
the long term."
Mr. Nudi said General Mills is committed to continuing to build strong brands
and is focused on innovating more aggressively. He said the company is

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Reversal of fortune seen in food-sector
share prices going into 2018
KANSAS CITY - After years of food
industry share outperformance relative
to the broader stock market, the sector's
reversal in 2017 was extraordinarily severe, said Brett M. Hundley, Vertical
Group, Richmond, Va.
As a result, Mr. Hundley said food
sector shares are valued far differently
at the start of 2018 than was the case
a year ago or several years earlier. Mr.
Hundley was one of several food sector
analysts interviewed by Milling & Baking
News about the stock market outlook for
the new year in the food sector generally
and grain-based foods in particular.
"Since 2006, the packaged foods subindex has always traded at a premium
to the market," Mr. Hundley said. "Over
the past two to three years the multiple
has been 1.4 to 1.5 times. Now it is sub1. I'd never seen that. It just shows the
rotation toward industrials and tech and
away from these staple names."
Other analysts offering a market outlook were Farha Aslam, managing director,

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Hearthside Food may
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bevy of reports from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture on
Jan. 12 laid the initial groundwork
for grain and oilseed markets in 2018,
and at this point, it looks like more of the
same with abundant domestic and global

supplies the overarching theme.
Combined data from the U.S.D.A.'s
annual Winter Wheat and Canola
Seedings, annual Crop Production 2017
Summary, quarterly Grain Stocks and
monthly World Agricultural Supply and
Demand Estimates reports indicated more
corn and wheat than expected and less
soybeans, which moved futures sharply
lower for wheat, modestly lower for corn
and higher for the oilseed market.
Although wheat numbers were
bearish all around, probably the biggest
surprise was winter wheat seedings. Area
planted to all wheat for harvest in 2018
at 32,608,000 acres was down 88,000
acres, or 0.3%, from 2017, down 10%
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NEW YORK - Hearthside Food
Solutions L.L.C., the nation's largest and fastest-growing independent
bakery and full-service contract manufacturer of grain-based food and
snack products, has been an active
acquirer of several bar makers over
the past year. Now, Hearthside itself
may be on the block, according to a
report from Bloomberg. Bloomberg on
Jan. 11 reported that Goldman Sachs
Group Inc.'s private equity arm and
Vestar Capital Partners are exploring
a sale of Downers Grove, Ill.-based
Hearthside Food Solutions. If the
groups go through with the sale, the
transaction could fetch about $2.5
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KANSAS CITY - In a year in which the
overall stock market roared to new record highs, the Grain-Based Foods Share
Index in 2017 barely squeaked out a fractional gain. Still, the index calculated by
Milling & Baking News managed to end
in the black for a ninth consecutive year.
At 0.7%, the advance was the smallest of the nine-year streak and followed
advances of 14.2% in 2016, 4.3% in 2015,
17.4% in 2014 and 22.7% in 2013.
While ending at the highest yearly close ever, the 24413.16 close was
below an all-time intra-year peak
of 25137.46 reached in December
2016 and the 2017 intra-year high of
25568.38 reached in June.
The 0.7% gain fell far short of advances
scored by major stock market indexes -
25.1% for the Dow Jones average of industrial shares, 21.7% for the S.&P.500 and
26.9% for the Nasdaq composite index.
Versus the 10 S.&P.500 sectors, the
grain-based shares significantly underperformed each with the sole exception

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of energy, which declined 1%. Disappointingly, the grain-based index fell
more than 12 percentage points shy
of the 13% gain scored by the S.&P.500
consumer staples sector. The consumer
discretionary index was up 23% in 2017.
Gains from other sectors of the S.&P.500
ranged from a low of 12% for utilities to
a high of 34% for technology.
Two companies included in the
Grain-Based Foods Share Index in 2016
were acquired in 2017. In June, Tyson
Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., completed an acquisition of AdvancePierre
Foods Holdings, Inc., Cincinnati, for
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Urgency, optimism after checkoff
steering committee convenes
WASHINGTON - Broad outlines of a
potential checkoff program for the flourbased foods industry took shape last week
with the inaugural meeting of a Grain
Foods Foundation steering committee responsible for assessing, developing and
potentially launching such a program.
Christine Cochran, executive director

of the G.F.F., called the Oct. 10 meeting a
success and described a sense of urgency
among the group of milling and baking executives to take steps to reverse declining
trends in grain-based foods consumption.
"There was real momentum to build
a commitment toward a checkoff," she
said. "Many details are still up for consideration, but there was consensus that
we should pursue a program. These folks
are ready to move. If we could launch tomorrow, they would be happy."
Notwithstanding this enthusiasm,
numerous steps remain to be completed and decisions to be made before
a launch will be possible, Ms. Cochran

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