Seneca Foods Announces Cl A Share Offering

Seneca Foods Corporation (Nasdaq: SENEA - News, SENEB - News) today announced a secondary offering by certain of the Company's shareholders of 3,702,000 shares of Class A common stock. The offering includes an option for the underwriters to purchase up to 554,332 additional shares from the selling shareholders to cover overallotments, if any. The offering is being conducted as a public offering pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933. Merrill Lynch & Co. is sole book-running manager and Piper Jaffray & Co. is joint lead manager of the offering. Seneca Foods will not receive any of the proceeds from this offering