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980801 Fresh Foods' Cheeseburger Receives National Award

July 28, 1998

Claremont, NC - The Pierre Jumbo Cheeseburger produced by Pierre Foods, LLC., recently won the 1998 "Readers Choice Award" for Food Product of the Year from Automatic Merchandiser, a monthly management magazine for vending professionals.

Pierre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresh Foods Inc., Fresh Foods, which operated under the name WSMP Inc. until May 8, is a North Carolina-based, fully integrated producer and marketer of fully cooked, value - added food products. These include numerous meat products as well as packaged microwaveable sandwiches for foodservice, vending, convenience store and other home meal replacement markets.

The company sells its products through various distribution channels under the Pierre, Fast Choice, and Mom'n'Pop's brand names, which are widely recognized in the food industry. Fresh Foods also sells a variety of sandwiches under several national restaurant brands.

In addition to Pierre Foods LLC, Fresh Foods is the parent company of Claremont Restaurant Group LLC, through which it owns and operates 63 restaurants and franchises an additional 40 units. Forty-three of the restaurants the company owns and operates are Sagebrush Steakhouse & Saloon restaurants. The company also owns and operates 14 Western Steer units, five Prime Sirloin locations and one Bennett's restaurant. The franchised locations are Western Steer, Prime Sirloin and Bennett's units.

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Iotron Technology Inc.

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