date:Feb 24, 2014
Hormel Foods Corp. hopes to reheat sales for its Compleats line of shelf-stable microwave meals, which dragged down an otherwise strong quarter for the company.
It has been a little bit of a puzzle even internally, said Jeff Ettinger, chairman, president and chief executive officer, during a Feb. 20 earnings call with financial analysts. We had a couple of really pretty strong quarters with Compleats heading into Q4 and kind of later in the year, it was a little softer, and then Q1 clearly did