Conagra Brands

American packaged food company that owns major frozen food, snacking, and grocery brands including Healthy Choice, Birds Eye, Slim Jim, and Hunt's.

Conagra traces its origins to 1919, when Nebraska Consolidated Mills was founded to process flour in Grand Island, Nebraska. The company grew by acquiring grain milling and processing operations across the Midwest throughout the twentieth century.

The company renamed itself ConAgra, Inc. in 1971 and began its transformation from a grain processing business into a diversified food company through aggressive acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s, including Banquet Foods (1980), Armour Food Company (1983), and Hunt-Wesson (1990).

In the 2000s, ConAgra divested many of its commodity ingredients businesses to focus on branded consumer food. The company rebranded as Conagra Brands in 2018 following the Pinnacle Foods acquisition, signaling its new identity as a brand-focused consumer packaged goods company.

The Healthy Choice brand has a notable origin: it was created in 1989 following a heart attack suffered by CEO Charles Harper, who directed the company to develop a line of nutritionally improved frozen meals. The brand became one of the best-selling better-for-you frozen meal lines in the United States.

Conagra has set commitments to reduce packaging, source sustainable ingredients, and reduce food waste across its operations. The company participates in the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Coalition and has committed to sourcing cage-free eggs for applicable products by a target date.