AUSTIN, Minn., Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Hormel Meals Company (NYSE: NYSE:), a Fortune 500 international branded meals firm, right now introduced that James P. Snee, chairman of the board, president and chief government officer, will retire on the finish of fiscal 2025, following a distinguished 36-year profession with the corporate.

The Board has fashioned a search committee and can profit from its present CEO-succession course of to establish Snee’s successor. Inside and exterior candidates are being thought-about. Snee has agreed that when his successor is called, he’ll function a strategic advisor to the Board by the top of fiscal yr 2025 and for 18 months thereafter.

Invoice Newlands, the Board’s unbiased lead director, stated, “On behalf of the entire board of directors, we extend our gratitude to Jim for his dedication to Hormel Foods, its stockholders, its employees and its communities. We congratulate him on an impactful career and look forward to working with him in the months ahead to execute an effective transition and deliver on our business imperatives.”

Snee stated, “As CEO of Hormel Foods for the last eight years, I have been blessed to work alongside the most talented and committed team in the industry. I am proud of the impactful, innovative and transformational work we have accomplished during my tenure, which has been a period of rapid and significant change. My heartfelt gratitude goes to the leaders who came before me and to all the dedicated colleagues I’ve worked with during my 36-year career. As we begin this transition, I’m confident in the bright future that lies ahead for Hormel Foods.”

Beneath Snee’s management, the corporate grew its roster of protein-centric manufacturers with acquisitions in its Retail, Foodservice and Worldwide segments: the PLANTERS ^® snacking portfolio, the FONTANINI ^® branded foodservice enterprise and the South America-focused CERATTI ^®  model. Snee additionally launched vital initiatives designed to place the corporate for long-term success, together with the reorganization of its working mannequin for higher client and buyer focus and, most lately, the Rework & Modernize for development initiative. Throughout Snee’s tenure, the corporate continued its legacy of dividend development. In November 2024, Hormel Meals introduced its 59^th consecutive yr of annual dividend will increase.

Snee continues to be a candidate for election to the Board at its 2025 Annual Assembly of Stockholders, which is scheduled for January 28, 2025. If elected, Snee is predicted to function a director till a successor assumes his government roles.

The corporate’s fiscal 2025 efficiency outlook stays unchanged.

About Hormel Meals ” Impressed Individuals. Impressed Meals.^™  
Hormel Meals Company, based mostly in Austin, Minnesota, is a world branded meals firm with  roughly $12 billion in annual income throughout greater than 80 international locations worldwide. Its manufacturers embody  PLANTERS ^®, SKIPPY ^®, SPAM ^®, HORMEL ^® NATURAL CHOICE ^®, APPLEGATE ^®, JUSTIN’S ^®, WHOLLY ^®, HORMEL ^® BLACK LABEL ^®, COLUMBUS ^®, JENNIE-O ^® and greater than 30 different beloved manufacturers. The corporate is a member of the and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named among the best firms to work for by U.S. Information & World Report, certainly one of America’s most accountable firms by Newsweek, acknowledged by TIME journal as one of many World’s Greatest Corporations and has obtained quite a few different awards and accolades for its company accountability and neighborhood service efforts. The corporate lives by its function assertion ” Impressed Individuals. Impressed Meals.^™ ” to deliver a few of the world’s most trusted and iconic manufacturers to tables throughout the globe. For extra info, go to hormelfoods.com.

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