Pinnacle Foods Inc. (NYSE:PF) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

Pinnacle Foods Inc.’s (the “Company”) Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer, D. Michael Wittman, informed the Company of his desire to retire and, on December 31, 2017, the Company and Mr. Wittman came to an agreement on the terms and timing of his retirement, whereby Mr. Wittman will retire during the second quarter of 2018.

The Company appointed Mr. Daniel Poland, 54, as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer, effective January 22, 2018, to replace Mr. Wittman. Mr. Wittman will assist the Company in the transition of its new Chief Supply Chain Officer.

Mr. Poland joins the Company from The DanoneWave Food Company where he was the Chief Supply Chain Officer of North America.

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About Pinnacle Foods Inc. (NYSE:PF)
Pinnacle Foods Inc. is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of branded food products in North America. The Company operates through three segments: the Birds Eye Frozen segment, the Duncan Hines Grocery segment and the Specialty Foods segment. The Birds Eye Frozen segment manages its brands in the United States retail frozen vegetables (Birds Eye), frozen complete bagged meals (Birds Eye Voila!), and frozen seafood (Van de Kamp’s and Mrs. Paul’s) categories, plant based protein frozen products (gardein), as well as its Foundation Brands in the frozen and refrigerated bagels (Lender’s), frozen pizza for one (Celeste), single-serve frozen dinners and entrees (Hungry-Man), and frozen breakfast (Aunt Jemima) categories. The Duncan Hines Grocery Segment includes cake mixes, ready-to-serve frostings, brownie mixes, muffin mixes and cookie mixes. The Specialty Foods segment consists of snack products (Tim’s Cascade and Snyder of Berlin), foodservice and private label businesses.