date:Mar 24, 2014
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The company's long-term EPS growth rates, and multi-year synergy goals related to the Ralcorp acquisition, are unchanged from prior estimates. The company expects at least 10% annual comparable EPS growth in the fiscal 2016-2017 period, largely due to the benefit of Ralcorp-related synergies; the company continues to expect the Ralcorp transaction to generate $300 million of annual pretax cost-related synergies by the end of fiscal 2017.
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