Maple Leaf Foods Annual Meeting of Shareholders

    TSX: MFI
    www.mapleleaf.com

TORONTO, April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held:

    When:     Thursday, April 29, 2010
    Time:     11:00 a.m.
    Where:    Toronto Board of Trade
              1 First Canadian Place, 2nd Floor Ballroom
              77 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, ON

Access live via webcast at http://events.startcast.com/events6/91/C0017/Default.aspx

If you are unable to participate, playback of the webcast will be archived and available on the Company's website under the Presentations & Webcasts section at www.mapleleaf.com shortly after the close of the Annual Meeting.

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a leading food processing company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The Company employs approximately 23,500 people at its operations across Canada and in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia. The Company had sales of $5.2 billion in 2009.

SOURCE Maple Leaf Foods Inc.