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Check out sales of Spam staying strong in the recession, as consumers eat more meals at home rather than going to restaurants.
Hormel Foods, maker of the iconic canned ham, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday and sprinkled a bit more optimism on its full-year forecast.
Spam said it expects its full-year profit to be near the upper end of its previously announced range of $2.15 to $2.25 per share. In the second quarter, which ended April 26, the company earned 59 cents per share, topping analysts’ average estimate of 50 cents.
But the company did say it had some issues with exports, since the H1N1 flu virus prompted some countries to ban imports of U.S. pork products.
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OK…maybe a little sarcastic here, but shouldn’t common sense tell folks not to fear a flu bug living in a tin of food that’s been industrially processed?
@ Brian Foulkrod
Would you follow that common sense if the tin was coming from China or any other Asian nation?