Business Acquisition, Equity Interest Issued or Issuable, Conversion Ratio

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Business Combination, Cash Consideration Transferred, Per Share

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The amount of goodwill arising from a business combination that is expected to be deductible for tax purposes.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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This element represents the amount of earnings or loss of the acquiree since the acquisition date included in the consolidated income statement for the reporting period.

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Amount of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, that lack physical substance, having a projected indefinite period of benefit, acquired at the acquisition date.

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The amount of identifiable intangible assets recognized as of the acquisition date.

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Amount after accumulated impairment loss of an asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of a business, net of the cash acquired from the purchase.

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ACQUISITIONS (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions	1 Months Ended				6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
ACQUISITIONS (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions	Feb. 25, 2018 USD ($)	Oct. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Apr. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) $ / shares	May 27, 2018 USD ($)	May 28, 2017 USD ($)	Feb. 28, 2018 USD ($)	May 29, 2016 USD ($)
Business Acquisitions [Line Items]
Classified as goodwill						$ 4,502.5	$ 4,295.3		$ 4,315.9
Sandwich Bros. of Wisconsin
Business Acquisitions [Line Items]
Cash payment for acquisition, net of cash acquired	$ 87.3
Classified as goodwill								$ 57.8
Classified as non-amortizing intangible assets								9.7
Classified as amortizing intangible asset								$ 7.1
Angie's Artisan Treats, LLC
Business Acquisitions [Line Items]
Cash payment for acquisition, net of cash acquired		$ 249.8
Classified as goodwill		155.2
Amount deductible for income tax purposes		95.4
Classified as non-amortizing intangible assets		73.8
Classified as amortizing intangible asset		$ 10.3
Thanasi Foods, LLC and BIGS LLC
Business Acquisitions [Line Items]
Cash payment for acquisition, net of cash acquired			$ 217.6
Classified as goodwill			133.3
Amount deductible for income tax purposes			70.5
Classified as non-amortizing intangible assets			65.1
Classified as amortizing intangible asset			$ 16.1
Frontera Foods, Inc. and Red Fork LLC
Business Acquisitions [Line Items]
Cash payment for acquisition, net of cash acquired				$ 108.1
Classified as goodwill				39.5
Classified as non-amortizing intangible assets				59.5
Classified as amortizing intangible asset				$ 7.2
Frontera acquisition and Thanasi acquisition
Business Acquisitions [Line Items]
Net sales						$ 214.3	$ 36.5
Expected \| Pinnacle Foods Inc. (Pinnacle)
Business Acquisitions [Line Items]
Value of merger agreement					$ 10,900.0
Cash to be received by Pinnacle shareholders for each share (in usd per share) \| $ / shares					$ 43.11
Common stock to be received by Pinnacle shareholders for each share of Pinnacle (shares)					0.6494
Implied price per share of Pinnacle under agreement (in usd per share) \| $ / shares					$ 68.00