this was after hain told
"barron's" to watch the free
cash flow.
so "barron's" is saying listen,
gotcha here.
>> i started this company 20
years ago and we had $2 billion
in sales and $4 billion market
cap.
i built this company on big
acquisitions.
earth's best is the largest
brand.
when i bought it was a $14
million and today it's 200
million.
listen, there's so much growth
out there.
we spent 300 million, 400
million in acquisitions.
unfortunately, "barron's" come
back and said our free cash flow
has a hole in it.
we earned close to $200 million
last year.
maybe i should be a tech company
and not earn and money and get
some of the valuation out there.
we came back and grew high
single digits.
there's not many companies out
there in the food industry
growing like that.
in the last neilsen numbers we
were up over 11% consumption and
he also mentions that hey, how