TreeHouse Foods selling RTE cereal business

Post Holdings to be new owner

May 2nd, 2019

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TreeHouse Foods, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its RTE cereal business to Post Holdings. The financial terms of the sale, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2019, were not disclosed.

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