Is it time to Nationalize 'Big Ketchup'?

Heinz profit up more-than-expected

CHICAGO (Reuters) — Heinz (HNZ) on Thursday posted a greater-than-expected 23% rise in quarterly profit, lifted by increased prices and sales of new ketchup and soup products.
But the company also stuck by its full-year forecast, rather than raising it after the strong quarterly results.

The company, fresh from a battle with dissident investor Nelson Peltz over seats on the Heinz board, posted profit of $194.1 million, or 58 cents a share, in the fiscal first quarter ended Aug. 2, compared with $157.3 million, or 45 cents a share, a year earlier.

Analysts on average forecast 53 cents a share, according to Reuters Estimates.

Sales rose 8.4% to $2.06 billion, beating the average analyst estimate of $2.03 billion. Volume, a measure that factors out currency and price fluctuations, rose 5.1% on growth in all the company's segments, Heinz said.

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Sales revenue of $2.06 Billion!?!? All this while gay people die of Aids, the working poor are without healthcare, the kitties and doggies are dieing on the street and all those tomato plants are fermenting and creating greenhouse gasses... contributing to the church of GLOBAL WARMING!

Is it time to strip John Kerry-Heinz of his mommies stock position and make Heinz a government held company?

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Hillary, " I`m going to take those profits..."