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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000048465-24-000013
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240313

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000048465
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MEAT PACKING PLANTS [2011]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	04 Manufacturing
		IRS NUMBER:				410319970
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1027

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1 HORMEL PL
		CITY:			AUSTIN
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55912-3680
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(507) 437-5611

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1 HORMEL PLACE
		CITY:			AUSTIN
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55912-3680

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	HORMEL GEO A & CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="ie1e023c931f741aa98d17594353d0dea_151"></div><div style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:1pt;text-align:center"><img alt="hml-20231029_g1a.jpg" src="hml-20231029_g1a.jpg" style="height:76px;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:201px"></div><div style="margin-bottom:1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">March 13, 2024</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Division of Corporation Finance</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Office of Manufacturing</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">100 F Street N.E.</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Washington, DC 20549</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Attn&#58;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Melissa Gilmore</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Kevin Woody</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Re&#58;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Hormel Foods Corporation</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended October 29, 2023 </font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Form 8-K furnished November 29, 2023</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">File No. 001-02402</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">To the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">This letter contains the responses of Hormel Foods Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Company), to your letter dated February 29, 2024, setting forth comments of the Staff (the Staff) of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) of the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the above-referenced filings. For your convenience, we have numbered and restated in italics each comment to correspond to the numbering in the Staff&#8217;s comment letter.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%;text-decoration:underline">Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended October 29, 2023</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%;text-decoration:underline">Item 3. Legal Proceedings, page 13</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%;padding-left:27.67pt">We note your disclosure that you entered into an unexpected, unfavorable arbitration ruling. Please disclose the information required by Item 103 of Regulation S-K or tell us specifically which confidentiality provisions in the applicable arbitration rules prohibit</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">you from disclosing such information.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Response&#58;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%"> The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and notes that Item 103 of Regulation S-K requires disclosure of &#8220;material </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">pending</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%"> legal proceedings&#8221; (emphasis added). As of the filing of the Company&#8217;s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 29, 2023, the binding arbitration was completed and there was no pending dispute or legal proceeding. While not directly required by Item 103, the Company nonetheless disclosed the result of the arbitration in the Form 10-K, which was the Company&#8217;s obligation to pay $59.6 million in damages, plus prejudgment interest of $5.3 million and attorneys&#8217; fees, because the Company concluded that it was helpful and transparent disclosure for the Company&#8217;s investors to explain the impact of the ruling on the Company&#8217;s reported financial results. The information reported in the Form 10-K restated the information the Company disclosed in a Form 8-K furnished on August 22, 2023, promptly following the adverse arbitration ruling. The Company&#8217;s disclosure included the impact the ruling had on its financial statements, the timing of the payment, the fact that the arbitration ruling was not subject to further appeal or judicial review and that the matter involved an isolated commercial dispute with a third party not related to the Company&#8217;s core business, which comprised the information about the arbitration ruling that the Company believed would be helpful to investors and that the Company was permitted to disclose. The Company referenced the confidential nature of the arbitration to explain why the Company would not be commenting on the substance of the ruling.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:42.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">To the extent the Staff&#8217;s comment is asking about the status of the dispute prior to the arbitration ruling while the dispute was pending, the Company advises the Staff, as stated in its Form 10-K, that the unfavorable outcome of the binding arbitration ruling was unexpected. In addition, the Company further notes that the dispute primarily involved a claim for monetary damages in an amount that was less than 10% of the Company&#8217;s current assets. Accordingly, the Company did not believe the dispute was material to the Company during its pendency.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%;text-decoration:underline">Item 7. Management&#8217;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%;text-decoration:underline">Results of Operations</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%;text-decoration:underline">Non-GAAP Financial Measures, page 21</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">2. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;We note your non-GAAP reconciliation tables on page 22 and in your earnings releases and 10-Q filings. Your presentation in these tables gives the appearance of a full non-GAAP income statement. Please note that the presentation of a full non-GAAP income statement, or a presentation that gives the appearance of one, may place undue prominence on the non-GAAP information and give the impression that the non-GAAP income statement represents a comprehensive basis of accounting. Please remove this presentation in your filings. To the extent you wish to present any of the non-GAAP measures, you could present a separate reconciliation for each non-GAAP measure and provide all disclosures required by Item 10(e)(1)(i) of Regulation S-K including quantification and description of each adjustment individually. Refer to Question 102.10(a) and (c) of the Division</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">&#8217;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">s Compliance &#38; Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Response&#58; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff's comment and advises that on pages 5-6 of the earnings release for the first quarter of fiscal 2024 that was issued on February 29, 2024 (and furnished with a Form 8-K with the SEC on the same date) and page 24 of the Form 10-Q for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 that was filed with the SEC on February 29, 2024, in each case prior to receiving the Staff's letter, the Company has modified the presentation of the reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to comply with Item 10(e)(1)(i) of Regulation S-K so the presentation of the reconciliation tables do not resemble a full non-GAAP income statement. The modified style of presentation will continue to be used for future filings to comply with Question 102.10(a) and (c) of the Division's Compliance &#38; Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures. </font></div><div style="padding-left:18pt"><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;We note the discussion of your non-GAAP financial measures which includes various adjustments. Please tell us the total amount of each adjustment for respective periods presented.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Response&#58; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and presents the tables below showing the total amount of charges and costs for each non-GAAP adjustment as discussed within the Company's Form 10-K. Furthermore, as described above in response to Comment 2, going forward the Company plans to use the style of presentation of the reconciliation tables used in the Company's earnings release and Form 10-Q for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, together with footnotes, such as footnote (1) to the tables below, to explain the adjustments where appropriate. Footnote (1) to the tables below addresses the matters discussed in Comment 4 below. The Company also intends to add a reconciliation of the tax effect of any adjustments to future filings. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:51.677%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:14.250%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.384%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:14.250%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.384%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:14.255%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="15" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Fourth Quarter Ended October 29, 2023</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">in thousands</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Pre-tax</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Tax Effect</font></div></td><td 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style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(1,671)</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">343&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(1,328)</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Transformation and Modernization Initiative</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:5.85pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;position:relative;top:-3.15pt;vertical-align:baseline">(1)</font></div></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">9,340&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(1,915)</font></td><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td 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style="background-color:#dbdbdb;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Impairment Charge - Corporate Venturing Investment</font></div></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">6,985&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(1,432)</font></td><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">5,553&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#dbdbdb;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="padding-left:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Total Non-GAAP Adjustments</font></div></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double 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style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(8,822)</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">34,216&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:42.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:51.677%"></td><td 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solid #000;padding:2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">53,482&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Transformation and Modernization Initiative</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:5.85pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;position:relative;top:-3.15pt;vertical-align:baseline">(1)</font></div></td><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font 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style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">5,553&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#dbdbdb;padding:2px 1pt 2px 7pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Total Non-GAAP Adjustments</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$</font></td><td style="background-color:#dbdbdb;border-bottom:3pt double #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 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Please tell us your basis for adjusting for these costs in your non-GAAP measures and your consideration of Questions 100.01 and 100.04 of the Non-GAAP Financial Measures Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. In particular, tell us how the excluded items do not represent standard cash expenses necessary to operate your business.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Response&#58; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and advises the Staff that the Company has considered the guidance set forth in Questions 100.01 and 100.04 of the Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures. When adjusting for costs in determining the Company&#8217;s non-GAAP financial measures, the Company evaluates the nature and effect of the excluded costs, specifically how those costs correlate to the Company&#8217;s operations, revenue generating activities, business strategy, industry and regulatory environment. Based on those evaluations, the Company considers whether a cost could be viewed as recurring and the exclusion thus misleading. The below paragraphs detail the background of the Company&#8217;s transformation and modernization initiative and how the adjustment for these costs is consistent with the guidance in Questions 100.01 and 100.04 of the Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023, the Company announced a multi-year transformation and modernization initiative. In presenting non-GAAP financial measures, the Company adjusts for (i.e., excludes) expenses for this initiative that are non-recurring, comprised primarily of project-based external consulting fees and asset write-offs related to portfolio optimization (i.e., reducing the complexity and optimizing the assortment of the product portfolio). However, the Company does not adjust for (i.e., does not exclude) certain costs related to the transformation and modernization initiative that are expected to continue after the project ends, such as software license fees and internal employee expenses, because those costs are considered ongoing in nature as a component of normal operating costs. This presentation is consistent with the information the Company&#8217;s management is using to evaluate performance and allocate resources. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">The Company believes the non-recurring costs are not reflective of the Company&#8217;s ongoing operating cost structure&#59; therefore, the Company is excluding these discrete costs related to the transformation and modernization initiative resulting in the non-GAAP financial measures. The Company believes excluding these costs in its non-GAAP financial measures is relevant to aid investors' analysis and understanding of the Company&#8217;s results and business trends relative to past performance and the Company&#8217;s competitors. The Company believes that non-GAAP financial measures excluding these non-recurring costs are not misleading due to&#58; (1) the significance of the enterprise transformation and related portfolio optimization activities and (2) the expectation for the strategic investments in this discrete and independent initiative to cease at the end of the investment period and to not recur in the foreseeable future (nor have they occurred in the last several years). </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%;text-decoration:underline">Form 8-K furnished November 29, 2023</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%;text-decoration:underline">Exhibit 99, page 7</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">5.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;We note that you present and discuss your non-GAAP measures prior to discussing your GAAP results of operations. Your presentation appears to give greater prominence to the non-GAAP measures and does not comply </font></div><div style="height:42.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">3</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">with Item 10(e)(1)(i)(A) of Regulation S-K and Question 102.10 of the Division's Compliance &#38; Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures. Please revise your presentations and discussions accordingly.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Response&#58; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff's comment and will reorganize the structure of the Form 8-K effective for its next earnings release, which will be for the second quarter ending April 28, 2024. Going forward, the Company will move the section titled </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">&#8220;Comparison of U.S. GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures&#8221;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%"> which includes the reconciliation of non-GAAP measures tables (and which will reflect the revised reconciliation presentation described in response to Comment 2 above), to follow the GAAP financial statements that are filed at the end of the earnings release to further comply with the prominence requirements of Item 10(e)(1)(i)(A) of Regulation S-K and Question 102.10 of the Division's Compliance &#38; Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">If you have any further questions or comments, or would like clarification as to any of the information provided in this letter, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned by telephone at (507) 437-5611. Thank you.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:55.625%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:42.175%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Sincerely,</font></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">&#47;s&#47; Jacinth C. Smiley</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Jacinth C. Smiley, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer</font></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:74.415%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:10.098%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:87.702%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">cc&#58;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">James P. Snee,</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer</font></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Paul R. Kuehneman,</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Vice President and Controller</font></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Brian D. Johnson,</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Vice President &#38; Corporate Secretary</font></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Mindy M. Dragisich,</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Partner, Ernst &#38; Young LLP</font></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Amy C. Seidel,</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle &#38; Reath LLP</font></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:42.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">4</font></div></div></div></body></html>
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