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Exhibit 99.4
For Release:
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Immediate | |||
Contact:
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Scott Monette | Matt Pudlowski | ||
314/877-7113 | 314/877-7091 |
RALCORP HOLDINGS ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF NORTH AMERICAN
BAKING LTD. AND J.T. BAKERIES INC.
BAKING LTD. AND J.T. BAKERIES INC.
St. Louis, MO, June 21, 2010 . . . Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: RAH) announced today that it
has acquired North American Baking Ltd., formerly known as PL Foods Ltd., a leading manufacturer of
premium private label specialty crackers in North America with annual net sales of approximately
US$56.7 million. North American Baking will continue its operations in Georgetown, Ontario (near
Toronto).
In a separate transaction, Ralcorp acquired J.T. Bakeries Inc., a leading manufacturer of high
quality private label and co-branded gourmet crackers in North America for customers in the U.S.,
Canada and Great Britain with annual net sales of approximately US$38.5 million. J.T. will continue
its operations in Kitchener, Ontario (South West Ontario).
Both of these transactions were completed on May 31, 2010 and are part of the
companys Snacks, Sauces & Spreads segment.
Ralcorp anticipates the transactions will be slightly accretive during the remainder of its
2010 fiscal year. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
Kevin J. Hunt, Co-Chief Executive Officer and President of Ralcorp Holdings, Inc., said, We
welcome the North American Baking and J.T. Bakeries management teams and employees to the Ralcorp
family. We believe the products manufactured by both of these companies will enhance Ralcorps
premium and gourmet cracker offerings. These transactions will allow us to continue Ralcorps
growth strategy on our existing private-label cracker platform.
Conference Call
Ralcorp will host a conference call today at 9:00 a.m. EDT to discuss the transaction. For
access to the call via live audio webcast, please visit the investors section of Ralcorps website
at www.ralcorp.com. Analysts and investors may access the call by dialing 1-866-610-1072; outside
the U.S., dial 1-973-935-2840.
A rebroadcast will be posted as soon as it is available and will remain posted until July 5,
2010 by calling 1-800-642-1687 in the U.S. and 1-706-645-9291 outside the U.S. The PIN number for
both the conference call and the rebroadcast is 83096717. An archive of the webcast will be posted
as soon as it is available and will remain posted for 30 days in the investor relations section on
Ralcorps website at www.ralcorp.com.
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About Ralcorp
Ralcorp produces Post branded cereals, a variety of value brand and store brand foods sold
under the individual labels of various grocery, mass merchandise and drugstore retailers, and
frozen bakery products sold to in-store bakeries, restaurants and other foodservice customers.
Ralcorps diversified product mix includes: ready-to-eat and hot cereals; nutritional and cereal
bars; snack mixes, corn-based chips and extruded corn snack products; crackers and
cookies; snack nuts; chocolate candy; salad dressings; mayonnaise; peanut butter; jams and jellies;
syrups; sauces; frozen griddle products including pancakes, waffles, and French toast; frozen
biscuits and other frozen pre-baked products such as breads and muffins; and frozen dough for
cookies, Danishes, bagels and doughnuts.
Forward Looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements which are within the safe harbor provisions
for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These forward-looking statements are sometimes identified by their use of terms and phrases such as
will, believes, intends, anticipates, plans, expects, or similar expressions. All
forward-looking statements are subject to a number of important factors, risks, uncertainties and
assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in any
forward-looking statements. These factors and risks include, but are not limited to (1) changes in
estimates of future earnings and cash flows; (2) integration problems, delays or other related
costs; (3) an increase in costs of packaging materials, ingredients, or raw materials; (4)
competitive pressures among branded and private label manufacturers increasing significantly; (5)
general economic and business conditions that adversely affect the companies or their suppliers,
distributors or customers; (6) expected synergies and cost savings are not achieved or achieved at
a slower pace than expected; (7) retention of customers and critical employees; (8) unanticipated
changes in laws, regulations, or other industry standards affecting the companies; and (9) those
referenced in Item 1A of Ralcorps Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30,
2009, under the heading Risk Factors.