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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): August 31, 2010

H.J. HEINZ COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Pennsylvania

1-3385

25-0542520

(State of Incorporation) (Commission File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

1 PPG Place, Suite 3100, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania

15222

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

412-456-5700
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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GENERAL

ITEM 2.02.   RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL CONDITION

Attached is H. J. Heinz Company’s press release dated August 31, 2010 furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1.

This press release presents the business measure of organic sales growth, which is defined as either volume plus price or total sales growth excluding the impact of foreign exchange and acquisitions and divestitures. This measure is utilized by senior management to provide investors with a more complete understanding of underlying sales trends by providing sales growth on a consistent basis.

This press release also presents the business measure of operating free cash flow, which is defined as cash flow from operations less capital expenditures net of proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment.  This measure is utilized by senior management and the board of directors to gauge our business operating performance, including the progress of management to profitably monetize low return assets.

The limitation of operating free cash flow is that it adjusts for cash used for capital expenditures and cash received from disposals of property, plant and equipment, the net of which is no longer available to the Company for other purposes. Management compensates for this limitation by using the GAAP operating cash flow number as well. Operating free cash flow does not represent residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures and does not provide insight to the entire scope of the historical cash inflows or outflows of our operations that are captured in the other cash flow measures reported in the statement of cash flows.

Disclosed on Exhibit 99.1 is supplemental information regarding reconciliation and calculation of the non-GAAP measures discussed above in connection with the financial results for fiscal years ended April 28, 2010 and April 29, 2009 and the expected financial results for the first quarter ended July 28, 2010 and the financial results for the first quarter ended July 29, 2009.


ITEM 9.01.   FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

(d)           Exhibits

Exhibit Number

(Referenced to
Item 601 of

Regulation S-K)

Description of Exhibit

99.1 H.J. Heinz Company Press Release dated August 31, 2010


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

H.J. HEINZ COMPANY

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Edward J. McMenamin

Edward J. McMenamin

Senior Vice President – Finance

 
 

Dated:

August 31, 2010


EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.

Description

99.1

H. J. Heinz Company Press Release dated August 31, 2010