Marzetti(R) uDip Sweepstakes Offers Five Ways to Win iTunes(R) Gift Cards, iPods(R), iMacs(R) and Other Exceptional Prizes

Visit uDipSweepstakes.com through November 30 for five different contests and games, including the newly launched packaging design contest

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Marzetti® is pleased to launch the packaging design contest portion of its uDip Sweepstakes, which encourages people of all ages to dip into their creativity and design the packaging for Marzetti® Old Fashioned Caramel Apple Dip Singles. One winner will have his or her winning design printed on the Fall 2010 Marzetti® Old Fashioned Caramel Apple Dip Singles packaging and win an iMac computer, among other prizes.

In addition to the design contest, uDipSweepstakes.com offers a daily Instant Win Sweepstakes, uDip On-line Bakery Game, a Recipe Contest and Photo and Video Contest. All activities generate entries for a grand prize drawing for a 20-inch iMac® computer with software and many accessories, an Apple iPod music device and iTunes gift cards.

"At Marzetti, we listen to consumers and their opinions of our product. For the second year in a row, we decided to give them a chance to create the 'billboard' element of our product - the packaging," said Irena Castle, a senior marketing manager at T. Marzetti Company. "The packaging design contest gives our consumers a chance to enjoy the product from a new perspective."

Seventeen-year-old Jaime Ostrom of Chippewa Falls, Wis. won the packaging design contest in 2008. Her design is featured on Marzetti® Old Fashioned Caramel Apple Dip singles packaging currently in stores.

After seeing an ad for the contest in her mom's magazine, Ostrom dipped into her creativity to create her award-winning design. "I chose bright, eye-popping colors and imagined the caramel drips and apples I drew as if they were three-dimensional, having fun and brainstorming what I thought would really make the design exciting and my own," she said. "Entering the contest gave me a great opportunity to be thoughtful, creative and artistic. I think everyone should take the opportunity to enter the 2009 design contest. They can express themselves, gain personal insight - and they might even become this year's lucky winner."

The packaging design contest is open to all ages. Entrants can draw on existing Marzetti® Caramel Apple Dip singles packaging or on a template available online. Twelve finalists (three from each age category: 0-8, 8-14, 15-18, 18+) will receive $25 iTunes gift cards and coupons. One winner will have his or her winning design printed on Marzetti® Old Fashioned Caramel Apple Dip packaging and also receive a 20-inch iMac® computer and a Wacom® Bamboo Tablet. The winner's school of choice will receive 10 Wacom® Bamboo Tablets, a computer accessory that allows users to design sketches, handwrite notes and mark up digital documents, among other unique features.

The contest is open to U.S. residents and ends November 30, 2009. For official rules, entry forms and lists of prizes visit www.uDipSweepstakes.com.

About T. Marzetti:

The T. Marzetti Company, the specialty food division of Lancaster Colony Corporation (Nasdaq: LANC), markets a wide variety of foods for both the retail and foodservice markets. Brands include Marzetti, New York, and Sister Schubert's. More information about the company is available at www.Marzetti.com.

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