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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): February 25, 2010

H.J. HEINZ COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Pennsylvania

1-3385

25-0542520

(State of Incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

1 PPG Place, Suite 3100
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

15222

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

412-456-5700
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)


Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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GENERAL

ITEM 2.02. RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL CONDITION

Attached is H. J. Heinz Company’s press release dated February 25, 2010 furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1.

This press release presents the business measure of organic sales growth, which is defined as either volume plus price or total sales growth excluding the impact of foreign exchange and acquisitions and divestitures. This measure is utilized by senior management to provide investors with a more complete understanding of underlying sales trends by providing sales growth on a consistent basis.

This press release also presents the business measure of operating free cash flow, which is defined as cash flow from operations less capital expenditures net of proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment.  This measure is utilized by senior management and the board of directors to gauge our business operating performance, including the progress of management to profitably monetize low return assets.

The limitation of operating free cash flow is that it adjusts for cash used for capital expenditures and cash received from disposals of property, plant and equipment, the net of which is no longer available to the Company for other purposes. Management compensates for this limitation by using the GAAP operating cash flow number as well. Operating free cash flow does not represent residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures and does not provide insight to the entire scope of the historical cash inflows or outflows of our operations that are captured in the other cash flow measures reported in the statement of cash flows.

This press release also presents certain reported amounts and certain outlook on a constant currency basis. Constant currency is defined as the reported amount adjusted for translation (the effect of changes in average foreign exchange rates between the current period and the corresponding prior year), the impact of the fluctuation in the British Pound versus the Euro and U.S. Dollar cross rates on U.K. transaction costs (impact of currency on particular transactions such as raw material sourcing), and the impact of current and prior year foreign currency translation hedges.  Management refers to growth rates at constant currency so that results can be viewed without the impact of changing foreign currency exchange rates, thereby facilitating period-to-period comparisons of financial results. Management provides outlook on a constant currency basis because of the volatility of foreign exchange rates and because it believes that such presentation facilitates a period to period comparison.   However, a limitation of the use of the constant currency results as a performance measure is that it does not reflect the unfavorable impact of exchange rates on financial results when comparing to the prior period. These results should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, results reported in accordance with GAAP.   

Disclosed on Exhibit 99.1 is supplemental information regarding reconciliation and calculation of the non-GAAP measures discussed above in connection with the financial results for the third quarters and nine months ended January 27, 2010 and January 28, 2009, respectively.

Consolidated Balance Sheet information as of January 27, 2010, and the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the nine months ended January 27, 2010, are incorporated by reference from the unaudited Summary of Financial Statements furnished under Item 7.01 of this Report.

ITEM 7.01  REGULATION FD

Attached and furnished as Exhibit 99.2 is a five-year unaudited Summary of Financial Statements that is also being posted in connection with the Company’s investor and analyst call on February 25, 2010.  This five-year summary reflects recast financial information which reports the operating results of the Kabobs frozen hors d'oeuvres business which was sold during the second quarter of Fiscal 2010 as well as the Appetizers And, Inc. frozen hors d’oeuvres business and a private label frozen desserts business in the U.K., which were sold during the third quarter of Fiscal 2010, in discontinued operations for all periods presented.


ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

(d)         Exhibits

Exhibit Number

 

(Referenced to

 

Item 601 of

 

Regulation S-K)

Description of Exhibit

99.1 H. J. Heinz Company Press Release dated February 25, 2010
99.2 H. J. Heinz Company Summary of Financial Results dated February 25, 2010

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

H.J. HEINZ COMPANY

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Arthur B. Winkleblack

Arthur B. Winkleblack

Executive Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer

 
 
 

Dated:

February 25, 2010


EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.

 

Description

 

99.1

H. J. Heinz Company Press Release dated February 25, 2010

 

99.2

H. J. Heinz Company Summary of Financial Results dated February 25, 2010