Webcast Alert - Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Second Quarter Results Live on the Web

    TSX: MFI
    www.mapleleaf.com

    TORONTO, July 14 /CNW/ - Maple Leaf Foods Inc. will report its financial
results for the second quarter on July 24, 2008. The financial results will be
released by CNW newswire service.

    
    What:  Maple Leaf Foods' 2008 Second Quarter Results Conference Call

    Who:   Michael H. McCain, President & Chief Executive Officer
           Michael Vels, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
           Lynda J. Kuhn, Senior Vice President Communications & Consumer
           Affairs

    When:  July 24, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern

    Where: Go to http://investor.mapleleaf.ca for webcast link
           Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the above link.

           To participate via conference call, please call 416-641-6143/
           866-542-4241

           For those unable to participate, playback will be made available
           an hour after the event at 416-695-5800/800-408-3053 (Passcode
           3265946 followed by the number sign).
    

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

    Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a leading Canadian food processing company.
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the Company employs approximately 23,000
people at its operations across Canada and in the United States, United
Kingdom and Asia. The Company had sales of $5.2 billion in 2007.

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For further information: Jeanette Jones, (416) 926-2013