Abstract

ConAgra Foods (ConAgra) is the top US food producer. The company owns several famous brands like Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice, and Van Camp’s. ConAgra faces various financial risks: foreign exchange risk, commodity price risk and currency risk. This case outlines these risks and the mechanisms ConAgra employs to deal with them.

Learning Objectives

The case is structured to achieve the following Learning Objectives:

• 0

Keywords

ConAgra Foods, Financial risk, Financial risk management, Food producer, Meat processing, Packaged foods, Food ingredients, Market risk, Commodity price risk, Interest rate risk, Currency risk, Financial instruments, US GAAP, generally accepted accounting principles, Fair value hedges, Cashflow hedge