Smucker Foods Completes Milling Sales

TORONTO - Sep 26/06 - SNS -- S,mucker Foods of Canada Co. has completed the sale of its grain-based foodservice and industrial businesses in Canada to Horizon Milling G.P., a partnership formed by Cargill and CHS Inc.

The business in Canada operates under the name Horizon Milling G.P. and includes three milling operations in Montreal, Quebec; Port Colborne, Ontario; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and three dry baking mixing facilities in Montreal, Saskatoon, and Burlington, Ontario. It also includes a research and development center and new Horizon Milling G.P. company headquarters in Rexdale, Ontario.

Horizon Milling G.P. serves Canada's foodservice, bakery and food manufacturing markets with quality flour, oats and baking mixes. Horizon Milling G.P. also licenses rights to Robin Hood(R) brands in the Canadian, U.S. and Caribbean Basin foodservice and industrial markets. Through a co-packing agreement, Horizon Milling G.P. provides branded retail baking products, including Robin Hood(R) flour, to the The J.M. Smucker Company.