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Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg,
Texas, was recently honored by Jack
in the Box with two separate awards
for outstanding customer service.
Jack in the Box presented Pilgrim's
Pride with its 2005 Vendor Partnership Award, which recognizes vendors
who have consistently demonstrated
their commitment to the Jack in the
Box core values of product quality
and safety, customer service and reliability. Pilgrim's Pride was the only
poultry company to earn this honor.
In addition, the National Franchisee Purchasing Cooperative, Inc., an
independent organization representing 36 Jack in the Box franchise
operators, presented Pilgrim's Pride
with its 2005 Supplier of the Year
award. This award recognized the
company for exceptional supplier
performance and outstanding support to Jack in the Box in the areas of

reliability, dependability and overall
customer service.
In other news, Pilgrim's Pride was
named to FORTUNE magazine's
"The Hot 100," a list of the 100 fastest-growing companies. The company, which ranked 77th overall, is the
only food company to make the list.
Pilgrim's Pride was 73rd in three-year
annual revenue growth with a 34 percent increase.
In addition, Walt Shafer was promoted to executive vice president,
prepared foods and will oversee all
prepared foods operations throughout
the company. Shafer most recently
had served as senior vice president,
prepared foods regional operations.
Pilgrim's Pride also named Joe Moran executive vice president, fresh
food service. He will be responsible
for all fresh food service operations
companywide. Moran most recently

had served as senior vice president,
fresh food service, for the company's
Duluth, Ga., operation.
Lou Nieto has joined ConAgra
Foods, Inc. as its president, packaged
meats and deli. He is a veteran of the
packaged foods industry, most recently working as president and C.E.O. of
Federated Group, Inc, a privately held
national provider of private brands,
products and services to grocery industry retailers.
Patrick Cudahy, Inc., Cudahy, Wis.,
announces Ramon Aldape will lead
the sales and marketing efforts of the
company's ethnic brands. In this position, Aldape will be responsible for the
planning and direction of sales and
marketing efforts by this Smithfield
Foods unit toward the fastest growing
segment of the U.S. population.

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