ConAgra Foods Acquires Brand Trademarks for Marie Callender's for $57.5M

ConAgra Foods, Inc.,

today announced the purchase, effective June 9, 2011, of the Marie Callender's® brand trademarks from Marie Callender Pie Shops, Inc., for a price of $57.5 million. Marie Callender Pie Shops, Inc. operates the Marie Callender's® Restaurant & Bakery chain in California and the southwestern U.S.