Exhibit 10.1

 

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August 2, 2018

Sean M. Connolly

c/o Conagra Brands, Inc.

222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1300

Chicago, Illinois 60654

 

  Re:

Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) Letter of Agreement

Dear Sean,

The purpose of this letter of agreement (“Letter Agreement”) is to memorialize
certain terms and conditions pursuant to which you will continue to serve, after
the expiration on August 1, 2018 of the Employment Agreement, dated as of
February 12, 2015, between Sean M. Connolly (“you” or similar words) and ConAgra
Foods, Inc. (n/k/a Conagra Brands, Inc., the “Company”), as amended (the
“Employment Agreement”), as the President and CEO of the Company.

The Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) has determined that it is in
the best interests of the Company to obtain and retain your services under this
Letter Agreement as the President and CEO of the Company on the following terms
and conditions:

 

  1.

Term of Employment. Your term of employment with the Company will continue in
accordance with the terms hereof until your employment ends in accordance with
Section 4 below.

 

  2.

Position, Location and Duties. You will continue as President and CEO of the
Company and a member of the Board as described in this Letter Agreement. You
will be re-nominated to the Board while you are a Company employee. Your primary
work location shall be the Company’s headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. As
President and CEO, you will devote your full working time and efforts to the
performance of the duties of President and CEO of the Company, but you may,
consistent with such duties, engage in charitable and community affairs, manage
your personal investments and, subject to the prior approval of the Board, serve
on the boards of directors of other companies.

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  3.

Compensation and Benefits.

 

  3.1

Base Salary. The Company will pay you a base salary (“Base Salary”) at not less
than the rate of $1,200,000 per annum in accordance with the ordinary payroll
practices of the Company. The Base Salary shall be reviewed for possible
increases by the Board’s Human Resources Committee (the “Committee”) and the
Board’s independent directors at least annually, and any such increased amount
shall become the Base Salary hereunder.

 

  3.2

Annual Cash Incentive Awards. You will be eligible to participate in the
Company’s annual cash incentive program (“Annual Incentive Program”) as approved
by the Board or the Committee for employees generally. Your Annual Incentive
Program award opportunity each year, at target, will be no less than 150% of
your Base Salary, and your maximum Annual Incentive Program award opportunity
each year will be equal to 200% of the target Annual Incentive Program award
opportunity. The performance goals with respect to your Annual Incentive Program
award opportunity in any year will be established by the Committee on a basis
consistent with the establishment of such performance goals for other senior
executive officers of the Company.

 

  3.3

Long-Term Equity-Based Incentive Awards. You will be eligible to receive
equity-based incentive award opportunities under the Company’s 2014 Stock Plan
and/or any other or successor incentive plan or program available from time to
time to senior executive officers at levels determined by the Committee and
commensurate with your position (collectively, the “LTI Program”). Your LTI
Program award opportunity for any routine three-year performance period award
approved by the Committee will be, at target, no less than $7.5 million. The
translation of such target LTI Program award opportunity in any three-year
performance period into (a) specific award vehicles and (b) a number of equity
awards per vehicle, will be completed in a manner consistent with the
methodology approved by the Committee for use with other senior executive
officers of Company. As long as restricted stock units and performance shares
are included in the LTI Program, the Company shall use award agreements and/or
operational rules for your grants that contain normal and early retirement
provisions substantially no less favorable to retirees than those set forth in
the form of agreements used by the Company for its July 2018 grants. If the
Company shall use non-qualified stock options in the LTI Program in the future,
the Company shall use a form of award agreement for your grants that contain
normal and early retirement provisions substantially no less favorable to
retirees than those set forth in the form of agreement used in your August 28,
2015 grant, provided that any requirement to accelerate (either pro-rata or in
full, as applicable) vesting upon a retirement event shall be replaced with an
obligation to continue vesting (either pro-rata or in full, as applicable) on
the original vesting schedule.

 

  3.4

Employee Benefit Plans. The Company will provide you and your eligible
dependents with coverage under all employee benefit programs, plans and
practices, in accordance with the terms thereof, that the Company makes
available to senior executive officers (including qualified and non-qualified
plans, provided that such plans are open to new participants as of the date
first written above) in accordance with Company policies. This will include
vacation benefits pursuant to the standard Company vacation policy, but not less
than four weeks per calendar year.

 

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  3.5

Expenses and Other Benefits. You are authorized to incur reasonable expenses in
carrying out your duties under this Agreement, including expenses for travel and
similar items related to such duties. The Company will reimburse you for all
such expenses, subject to established Company policies. Additionally, the
Company will reimburse you for professional fees incurred in the negotiation and
preparation of this Letter Agreement (and related documents), up to a maximum of
$20,000. Further, the Company’s senior executive security policy will apply to
you (on a basis no less favorable than exists on the date hereof), including
your use of corporate aircraft and appropriate home security in the form
recommended by the Company’s security personnel.

 

  3.6

Stock Ownership. You will comply with the Company’s executive stock ownership
guidelines as they exist from time to time.

 

  3.7

Reimbursement and In-Kind Benefit Rules. Any reimbursements or in-kind benefits
to be provided pursuant to this Letter Agreement (including but not limited to
Sections 3.5, 4.6 and 6) that are taxable to you will be subject to the
following restrictions: (a) each reimbursement or in-kind benefit must be paid
or provided, as applicable, no later than the last day of the calendar year
following a tax year of yours during which the expense was incurred as the case
may be; (b) the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in kind
benefits provided, during any one of your tax years may not affect the expenses
eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other of
your tax years; (c) the period during which any reimbursement may be paid or
in-kind benefit may be provided is the later of ten years after termination of
this Letter Agreement or in the case of reimbursements related to expenses, the
expiration of all applicable statutes of limitation for the collection of such
expenses; and (d) the right to reimbursement or in-kind benefits is not subject
to liquidation or exchange for another benefit.

 

  4.

Separation from Service. The term of this Letter Agreement will commence on the
Effective Date and continue until your employment is terminated in accordance
with the terms of this Section 4 (the “Term”). In the event this Letter
Agreement is terminated by either you or the Company, Sections 6, 9, 10 and 11
will survive and Section 3.5 will survive in accordance with its terms. During
the Term, the Company may terminate your employment at any time for any reason,
and you may terminate your employment at any time with or without Good Reason,
subject to the terms of this Section 4.

 

  4.1

For purposes of this Section 4, the following terms will have the following
meanings:

 

  (a)

“Cause” will be limited to (i) your willful and continued failure to
substantially perform your duties with the Company (other than any such failure
resulting from your termination of your employment for Good Reason) after a
demand for substantial performance is delivered to you that specifically
identifies the manner in which the Company believes that you have not
substantially performed your duties, and you have failed to resume substantial
performance of your duties on a continuous basis within five (5) days of
receiving such demand, (ii) your willful engagement in conduct that is
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  Company, monetarily or otherwise, or (iii) your conviction of a felony or
conviction of a misdemeanor that impairs your ability substantially to perform
your duties to the Company. For purposes of this subsection, no act, or failure
to act, on your part will be deemed “willful” unless done, or omitted to be
done, by you not in good faith and without reasonable belief that your action or
omission was in the best interest of the Company.

 

  (b)

“Good Reason” will mean a termination of employment initiated by you upon one or
more of the following occurrences: (i) any failure of the Company to comply with
and satisfy any of the terms of this Letter Agreement; (ii) any significant
involuntary reduction of your authority, duties or responsibilities as President
and CEO; (iii) any involuntary removal of you from the position of President and
CEO or involuntary removal of you from (or failure to re-nominate you to) the
Board; (iv) any involuntary reduction in your aggregate compensation level
including, but not limited to, Base Salary, annual and long term incentive
opportunity, and retirement plans, as in effect as of the date first written
above; (v) requiring you to become based at any office or location more than 50
miles from the Company’s Chicago, Illinois headquarters, except for travel
reasonably required in the performance of your responsibilities; and (vi) you
being required to undertake business travel to an extent substantially greater
than your business travel obligations as of when you became President and CEO;
provided, however, that no termination will be deemed to be for Good Reason
unless (A) you provide the Company with written notice setting forth the
specific facts or circumstances constituting Good Reason within ninety days
after your knowledge of the initial existence of the occurrence of such facts or
circumstances, and (B) the Company has failed to cure such facts or
circumstances within thirty days of its receipt of such written notice.

 

  (c)

“Permanent Disability” will mean you are, by reason of any medically
determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in
death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve
(12) months, receiving income replacement benefits for a period of not less than
three (3) months under the Company’s long-term disability plan.

 

  (d)

“Retirement” will mean your “Early Retirement” or “Normal Retirement.”

 

  (e)

“Early Retirement” will mean your termination of employment with the Company
upon or after attaining age 55, but prior to attaining age 57.

 

  (f)

“Normal Retirement” will mean your termination of employment with the Company
upon or after attaining age 57.

 

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  (g)

“Separation from Service”, “termination of employment” and similar references
will mean the date that your employment with the Company terminates under
circumstances that constitute a separation from service within the meaning of
Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 409A and the Treasury Regulations
relating thereto (“Section 409A”). Generally, you will incur a Separation from
Service if you die, retire, or otherwise have a termination of employment with
the Company, determined in accordance with the following:

 

  (i)

Termination of Employment. Whether Separation from Service has occurred is
determined based on whether the facts and circumstances indicate that the
Company and you reasonably anticipated that no further services would be
performed after a certain date or that the level of bona fide services you would
perform after such date would permanently decrease to no more than twenty
(20) percent of the average level of bona fide services performed over the
immediately preceding thirty six (36) month period (or the full period of
services to the Company if you have been providing services to the Company less
than thirty six (36) months). For periods during which you are on a paid “bona
fide leave of absence” (as described under Section 409A) and have not otherwise
terminated employment, for purposes of this subsection you are treated as
providing bona fide services at a level equal to the level of services that you
would have been required to perform to receive the compensation paid with
respect to such leave of absence. Periods during which you are on an unpaid bona
fide leave of absence and have not otherwise terminated employment are
disregarded for purposes of this subsection (including for purposes of
determining the applicable thirty six (36) month (or shorter) period).

 

  (ii)

Service with Related Companies. For purposes of determining whether a Separation
from Service has occurred under the above provisions, the “Company” shall
include the Company and all Related Companies. “Related Companies” shall mean:
(A) any corporation that is a member of a controlled group of corporations (as
defined in Code Section 414(b)) that includes the Company; and (B) any trade or
business (whether or not incorporated) that is under common control (as defined
in Code Section 414(c)) with the Company. For purposes of applying Code Sections
414(b) and (c), 25% is substituted for the 80% ownership level.

 

  4.2

Termination Upon Death or Permanent Disability. In the event of a Separation
from Service during the Term by reason of your death or Permanent Disability,
(a) your Base Salary will be paid to you or your estate (as applicable) through
the month of Separation from Service, together with any accrued, but unused,
vacation pay and any unreimbursed business expenses incurred through the date of
Separation from Service and substantiated in accordance with Section 3.5, (b)
you will be paid an Annual Incentive Program award payout consistent with the
disability provisions of the Annual Incentive Program in place at the time of
the Separation from Service, but in an amount in no case less than a pro rata
Annual Incentive Program award payout for the fiscal year in which the
Separation from Service occurs based on (i) the number of days employed during
the fiscal year and (ii) the actual achievement of applicable financial
performance targets (determined without any exercise of negative discretion
inconsistent with any such exercise respecting other executives), which amount
(if any) will be paid when Annual Incentive Program award payouts for such year
are paid to other executives; (c) all deferred compensation (not including
retirement

 

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  benefits) will be paid to you, your estate, or your designated beneficiary (as
applicable) in accordance with the terms of such deferred compensation (the
items in (a), (b), and (c) above are collectively referred to as the “Accrued
Benefits”), and (d) you, your estate, or your designated beneficiary (as
applicable) will receive unpaid vested benefits in accordance with the relevant
terms of any retirement, equity compensation, or other employee benefit plan or
program in which you were a participant.

 

  4.3

Termination Without Cause or for Good Reason During Term. If there is a
Separation from Service during the Term initiated by the Company without Cause,
or resulting from you initiating a Separation from Service with Good Reason:
(a) you will receive all Accrued Benefits, except that the pro-rata Annual
Incentive Program award payout will be without regard to the disability
provisions of the Annual Incentive Program in place at the time of the
Separation from Service; (b) you will receive a payment in lump sum in an amount
equal to two times (2x) the sum of your (i) Base Salary plus (ii) an amount
equal to the value of your target Annual Incentive Program award opportunity for
the year in which the Separation from Service occurs; (c) the stock options
granted by the Company to you on April 1, 2015 will remain exercisable until the
later of July 31, 2021 and as otherwise provided for under the terms of the
nonqualified stock option agreement; (d) the unvested portion of stock options
granted by the Company to you on August 28, 2015 will become vested and
exercisable on a pro-rata basis, based on the number of days employed during the
applicable vesting period relative to the total number of days constituting the
vesting period; (e) if you elect continuation coverage under Company’s medical,
dental and vision benefits pursuant to Part 6 of Subtitle B of Title I of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“COBRA”), the
Company shall pay your monthly COBRA premium (which payments shall be taxable to
you), until the earlier of (i) your eligibility for any such coverage under
another employer’s medical plans or (ii) the date that is 24 months after the
Separation from Service and your participation in such benefits plan shall be
extended for such portion of the 24-month period not otherwise covered by COBRA;
and (f) you will receive unpaid vested benefits in accordance with the relevant
terms of any retirement, equity compensation or other employee benefit plan or
program in which you were a participant. Except as otherwise provided in the
preceding sentence, any equity awards granted to you will remain subject to the
terms and conditions of the applicable Award Agreements and the equity or
incentive compensation plans under which they were granted.

 

  4.4

Termination With Cause or Without Good Reason. If during the Term there is a
Separation from Service initiated by the Company with Cause, or resulting from
you voluntarily initiating a Separation from Service without Good Reason, then:
(a) you will be paid Base Salary through the month of termination, together with
any accrued, but unused, vacation pay and any unreimbursed business expenses
incurred through the date of Separation from Service and substantiated in
accordance with Section 3.5 and (b) you will receive unpaid vested benefits in
accordance with the relevant terms of any retirement, equity compensation, or
other employee benefit plan or program in which you were a participant.

 

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  4.5

Termination Upon Retirement. If during the Term there is a Retirement, then,
subject to the last sentence of Section 4.6: (a) you will be paid Base Salary
through the month of termination, together with any accrued but unused vacation
pay and any unreimbursed business expenses incurred through the date of
Separation from Service and substantiated in accordance with Section 3.5, (b)
subject to Section 4.5(c), you will receive unpaid vested benefits in accordance
with the relevant terms of any retirement, equity compensation or other benefit
plan or program in which you were a participant, and (c) notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in the LTI Program (including the Conagra Brands, Inc.
2008 Performance Share Plan, as amended) or the Annual Incentive Program to the
contrary, for purposes of your awards granted on or after July 17, 2018 and
outstanding as of the date of the Separation from Service (if any) under the LTI
Program and the Annual Incentive Program: (A) any definition of “Early
Retirement” (or substantially similar definition, as determined by the
Committee) that is less favorable to you than the definition of Early Retirement
in this Letter Agreement shall be deemed to be amended by this Letter Agreement
so that the applicable requirement is replaced by the requirement that you
attain at least age 55 but have not yet attained age 57; (B) any definition of
“Normal Retirement” (or substantially similar definition, as determined by the
Committee) that is less favorable to you than the definition of Normal
Retirement in this Letter Agreement shall be deemed to be amended by this Letter
Agreement so that the applicable requirement is replaced by the requirement that
you attain at least age 57; and (C) if any restricted stock unit or performance
share award or agreement with you under the LTI Program for an award outstanding
at the time of the Separation from Service provides for immediate vesting
(either pro-rata or in full, as applicable) in the event of Normal Retirement or
Early Retirement (as such terms are defined in the restricted stock unit or
performance share award or agreement), and such Normal Retirement or Early
Retirement is not within two years of a Change of Control (as such term is
defined in the restricted stock unit or performance share award or agreement)
such restricted stock unit or performance share award or agreement shall be
deemed to be amended by this Letter Agreement so that it provides for continued
vesting after the Retirement Separation from Service in accordance with the
normal vesting schedule for such award (either pro-rata or in full, as
applicable).

 

  4.6

Impact of Multiple Separation Events. For the avoidance of doubt, you may
receive benefits under multiple sections of this Letter Agreement if multiple
Separation from Service events apply at the time of your termination (e.g., the
full benefits of a termination under Section 4.3 together with, if Normal
Retirement-eligible or Early Retirement-eligible, the benefits of LTI Program
award vesting under Section 4.5). However, there shall be no duplication of
payments or benefits under Sections 4.5, 4.2, or 4.3, as applicable, and in no
event shall you receive the Retirement benefits contemplated by Section 4.5 if
your Separation from Service is initiated by the Company for Cause or is due to
your death.

 

  4.7

Timing of Payments. Subject to Section 4.8 below and any applicable deferral
election, all cash payments required hereunder following death, Permanent
Disability or any other Separation from Service will be made on the sixty-first
day following such Separation from Service, unless otherwise provided in an
applicable retirement,

 

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  equity compensation or other benefit plan or program of the Company. Any
payments made pursuant to a Separation from Service upon Permanent Disability
under Section 4.2 or pursuant to Section 4.3 not required by law in the absence
of this Letter Agreement are conditioned on you having first signed a release
agreement in a form provided by the Company (and not imposing any
post-termination restrictive covenants on you other than an affirmation of those
such covenants entered into by you and the Company prior to the date thereof)
and the release becoming irrevocable by its terms within sixty (60) calendar
days following the date of your Separation from Service.

 

  4.8

Six-Month Wait. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Letter Agreement to
the contrary, to the extent necessary to comply with Code
Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i), if you are a “specified employee” (determined in
accordance with Code Section 409A and Treasury Regulation
Section 1.409A-3(i)(2)) as of the date of Separation from Service (other than a
Separation from Service due to death), then any payment, benefit or entitlement
provided for in this Letter Agreement that is payable by reference to the date
of your Separation from Service during the first six months following the date
of Separation from Service will be paid or provided to you in a lump sum cash
payment to be made on the earlier of (a) your death or (b) the first business
day (or within 30 days after such first business day) of the seventh calendar
month immediately following the month in which the date of Separation from
Service occurs. If any payment is delayed pursuant to this Section 4.8, the
Company shall pay interest at the rate described below on the postponed payments
from the date the payment would have been due but for this Section 4.8 to the
date on which such amounts are paid. Interest will be credited at an annual rate
equal to the rate announced by Wells Fargo & Company (or its successor) as its
“prime rate” as of the date the payment would have been due but for this
Section 4.8, plus one hundred (100) basis points, compounded annually.

 

  4.9

Code Section 409A. It is intended by the Company and you that all compensation
and benefits payable or provided to you under this Agreement or otherwise will
fully comply with or be exempt from the provisions of Section 409A so as not to
subject you to additional tax, interest or penalties that may be imposed under
Section 409A. You and the Company acknowledge that Section 409A is ambiguous in
certain respects. The Company agrees that it will attempt in good faith not to
take any action, or refrain from taking any action, that would result in the
imposition of tax, interest and/or penalties upon you under Section 409A. To the
extent the Company has acted or refrained from acting in good faith as required
by this Section, it will not be responsible for any consequences of failure to
comply with Section 409A.

 

  5.

Offsets. In the event of a termination of your employment pursuant to
Section 4.3 above or a Company breach of this Letter Agreement, you shall not be
required to mitigate damages nor will the payments due to you hereunder be
reduced or offset by reason of any payments you may receive from any other
source or by any amounts owing by you to the Company.

 

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  6.

Separability; Legal Fees. If any provision of this Letter Agreement will be
declared to be invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, such invalidity or
unenforceability will not affect the remaining provisions hereof that will
remain in full force and effect. In addition, the Company shall reimburse you
for all legal and accounting fees and expenses incurred by you in seeking to
obtain or enforce any right or benefit provided by this Letter Agreement or any
other compensation-related plan, agreement or arrangement of the Company upon
presentation by you of an itemized account of such expenditures, unless your
claim is found by the arbitration panel to have been frivolous.

 

  7.

Assignment. This Letter Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit
of your heirs and representatives and the assigns and successors of the Company,
but neither this Letter Agreement nor any rights hereunder will be assignable or
otherwise subject to hypothecation by you (except by will or by operation of the
laws of intestate succession) or the Company, except that the Company shall
assign this Letter Agreement to any successor (whether by merger, purchase or
otherwise) to all or substantially of the stock, assets or businesses of the
Company.

 

  8.

Amendment. This Letter Agreement may only be amended by mutual written agreement
between the Company and you.

 

  9.

Governing Law. This Letter Agreement will be construed, interpreted and governed
in accordance with the laws of Delaware without reference to such state’s rules
relating to conflicts of law.

 

  10.

Arbitration. Any controversy or claim arising out of this Letter Agreement or
any breach will be resolved by arbitration pursuant to this Section 10 and the
then current rules of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitration will
be held in Chicago, Illinois before three arbitrators who are knowledgeable as
to employment and employee benefits law. If the parties cannot agree on the
appointment, one arbitrator shall be appointed by the Company, one by you, and
the third shall be appointed by the first two arbitrators. The arbitrators’
decision and award will be final and binding and may be entered in any court
having jurisdiction thereof. The arbitrators shall not have the power to award
punitive or exemplary damages. Each party shall bear its own attorneys’ fees
associated with the arbitration and other costs and expenses of the arbitration
will be borne as provided by the rules of the American Arbitration Association;
provided, however, that unless the arbitrators determine your position was
frivolous, you shall be entitled to reimbursement for reasonable attorneys’ fees
and expenses and arbitration expenses incurred in connection with the dispute.
If any portion of this Section 10 is held to be unenforceable, it will be
severed and will not affect either the duty to arbitrate or any other part of
this Section 10. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may seek interim
injunctive relief to enforce restrictive covenants pending resolution of any
arbitration.

 

  11.

Entire Agreement. This Letter Agreement supersedes any unwritten agreements or
understandings by and between you and the Company and any of its affiliates or
their respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, attorneys,
agents, or representatives, and, together with the agreements, plans and
programs referred to herein.

 

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  This Letter Agreement, together with the time sharing agreement in existence
as of the date first written above between the Company and you, and the change
in control agreement in existence as of the date first written above between the
Company and you, constitute the entire agreement between the parties, respecting
the subject matter hereof and there are no representations, warranties or other
commitments other than those expressed herein; provided, however, that, you and
the Company acknowledge that, upon termination of the Employment Agreement,
Sections 6, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14 thereof survive and Sections 4.3, 4.5 and 4.7
thereof survive in accordance with their terms. If there is a conflict between
any provision of this Letter Agreement and any provision of any of your stock
option or other award agreements, this Letter Agreement will control. You
acknowledge that certain plans maintained by the Company must comply with ERISA,
the Code and the terms and conditions of the plans (“Qualified Plans”). Nothing
contained in this Letter Agreement will require the Company to provide any
benefit contrary to the terms and conditions of the Qualified Plans or in
violation of ERISA or the Code. To the extent any benefit to be provided
hereunder to you cannot be provided through a Qualified Plan, the Company will
provide the benefit on a non-qualified basis. Notwithstanding anything in this
Letter Agreement to the contrary, nothing in this Letter Agreement or the
Employment Agreement prevents (or prevented) you from providing, without prior
notice to the Company, information to governmental authorities regarding
possible legal violations or otherwise testifying or participating in any
investigation or proceeding by any governmental authorities regarding possible
legal violations, and for purpose of clarity you are not (and were not)
prohibited from providing information voluntarily to the Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to Section 21F of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

On behalf of the Company, we thank you for your leadership and dedicated service
to the Company.

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Very truly yours, CONAGRA BRANDS, INC. By:  

/s/ Richard H. Lenny

Name:   Richard H. Lenny Title:   Chairman of the Board of Directors

 

Acknowledged and Agreed to by: SEAN M. CONNOLLY

/s/ Sean M. Connolly

Date:   August 2, 2018

 

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