Country Pure Foods To Acquire The Quaker Oats Company's Ardmore Farms Business.

Quick Frozen Foods International, October, 1998

Country Pure Foods Inc. has announced that it has reached an agreement with The Quaker Oats Company (NYSE:OAT) to acquire Quaker's Ardmore Farms juice and juice drinks business. Ardmore Farms' product lines include frozen, single-serve fruit juices and Skigo smoothies, both sold to foodservice customers in the United States. Under the agreement, Country Pure Foods will purchase the formulas, trademarks And inventories of the business, as well as the Deland, FL plant. The Deland plant employs approximately 160 people. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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