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Bridgford Foods Corporation and its subsidiaries manufacture and/or distribute refrigerated, frozen and snack food products. The Company markets its products throughout the United States. The Company sells its products through wholesale outlets, restaurants and institutions. The products are sold by the Company’s own sales force, brokers, cooperatives, wholesalers and independent distributors. Products are currently sold through approximately 25,700 retail food stores in forty-eight states within the continental United States, Hawaii and Canada that are serviced by Company-owned service routes. Company products are also sold throughout the country to approximately another 18,000 retail outlets and 19,000 restaurants and institutions.

The following summary represents the approximate percentage of net sales by class of product for each of the last five fiscal years:

The common stock of the Company is traded in the national over-the-counter market and is authorized for quotation on The Nasdaq National Market under the symbol “BRID”. The following table reflects the high and low closing prices and cash dividends paid as quoted by Nasdaq for each of the last eight fiscal quarters adjusted for the 10% stock dividend declared November 10, 1997.

ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS MEETING

The 1998 annual shareholders meeting will be held at the Four Points Sheraton (formerly Days Inn), 1500 South Raymond Avenue, Fullerton, California at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11, 1998.

RECENT HISTORICAL TRENDS