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Exhibit
99.1
Seneca
Foods Corporation
October
30, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Contact:
Roland E. Breunig, CFO
(608-757-6000)
PRESS
RELEASE
Seneca
Foods Corporation Announces Addition to Board of Directors
Seneca
Foods Corporation (SENEA, SENEB) today announced that it has increased the size
of its Board of Directors from eight to nine members and has appointed John P.
Gaylord to fill the newly created independent director position on the Board and
to serve until the 2010 annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor
is elected and qualified. Mr. Gaylord has served since 1992 as
President of Jacintoport Terminal Company, a Houston, Texas-based energy storage
and development company. Mr. Gaylord joined Jacintoport Terminal
Company in 1989 as Vice President of Finance. Mr. Gaylord also serves
as a Director of Martin Midstream GP LLC, the general partner of Martin
Midstream Partners LP, a publicly traded partnership, as an Advisory Director to
Post Oak Bank, Houston, Texas and as a Director on several charitable
boards. Mr. Gaylord holds a bachelor of business administration
degree from Texas Christian University and a master of business administration
from Southern Methodist University.
About
Seneca Foods Corporation
Seneca
Foods is one of the country’s largest processors of canned fruits and vegetables
with manufacturing facilities located throughout the United
States. Its products are sold under the Libby’s®, Aunt
Nellie’s Farm Kitchen®,
Stokely’s®,
READ®, and
Seneca®
labels as well as through the private label and industrial
markets. In addition, under an alliance with General Mills
Operations, LLC, a successor to The Pillsbury Company and a subsidiary of
General Mills, Inc., Seneca Foods produces canned and frozen vegetables, which
are sold by General Mills Operations, LLC under the Green Giant®
label. Seneca Foods’ common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global
Stock Market under the symbols “SENEA” and “SENEB”.