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Fitch Ratings will host a 'Sector Spotlight' webcast, for its U.S. 2009 Outlook for the Food, Beverage, Tobacco, Restaurants and Consumer Products sectors on Tuesday, November 18 at 9:00 am EST. According to Fitch, economic uncertainty combined with the recent financial crisis and volatility in the commodities marketplace has presented many challenges for consumers worldwide. Wesley Moultrie, Senior Director, Tom

Razukas, Managing Director and a team of Fitch analysts, will cover both broad trends as well as specific outlooks for individual sectors. Fitch's European Food & Beverage analyst will be available to answer questions sent in prior to the webcast.
There will be a slide presentation during the webcast, along with a Q&A session immediately after the prepared remarks. If you have specific questions you want addressed during the webcast, please forward them to mailto:questions@fitchratings.com prior to the morning of November 18.
Interested parties can access the web cast directly at cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww ...
Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww ... Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.

Fitch Ratings, New York

Danielle Riles, +1-212-908-0756

Cindy Stoller, +1-212-908-0526 (Media Relations)

mailto:cindy.stoller@fitchratings.com