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TORONTO, August 11 /CNW/ - (TSX: MEW.UN): Menu Foods Income Fund announced today its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2004.  

A conference call to review these results will take place tomorrow morning on Thursday, August 12, 2004 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 1-800-814-4861. A replay will be available from approximately one hour after the end of the conference call until August 26, 2004 by dialing 416-640-1917 or 1-877-289-8525, using passcode 21057671#. 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.

The Fund also announced that Menu Foods GenPar Limited (the general partner of Menu Foods Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of the Fund ("MFLP")) determined a previously declared distribution to holders of Class B Exchangeable Units in MFLP for the second quarter of 2004 to be 31.50 cents per Class B Exchangeable Unit payable on or before August 12, 2004.

Download full details on the Menu Foods Income Fund 2004 second quarter results.

Menu is the leading North American private-label/contract manufacturer of wet pet food products sold by supermarket retailers, mass merchandisers, pet specialty retailers and other retail and wholesale outlets and currently produces more than one billion containers per year.

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