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TORONTO, November 12 /CNW/ - (TSX: MEW.UN): Menu Foods Income Fund announced today that it will release its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2003 on Wednesday, November 19, 2003.

A conference call to review those results will take place the next morning on Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 8:30 a.m. EST (Toronto time). The conference call will be chaired by Serge Darkazanli, Menu's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Serge will be joined on the call by Paul Henderson, Menu's Chief Operating Officer and Mark Wiens, Menu's Chief Financial Officer.

To access the conference call in real time, please call 416-640-4127 or 1-800-814-4859. A replay will be available from approximately one hour after the end of the conference call to until December 4, 2003 by dialing 416-640-1917 or 1-877-289-8525, using passcode 21025276#. A live audio webcast of the conference call is also available, it can be accessed by entering www.newswire.ca/webcast on an Internet browser. A replay of the webcast will be available for 90 days, it can be accessed by entering www.newswire.ca/webcast on an Internet browser.

Menu is a leading North American manufacturer of private-label wet pet food products, selling its products to supermarket retailers, mass merchandisers, pet specialty retailers and other retail and wholesale outlets. Menu currently produces more than one billion containers of wet pet food per year and is focused on the manufacture and sale of premium private-label wet pet food products.

For further information: Mark Wiens, Chief Financial Officer, Menu Foods GenPar Limited, (905) 826-3870