Video Interview: Gary Steele, President & CEO, and Chairman of Landec Corporation

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• Press Release
• Source: NASDAQ CEO Signature Series; Landec Corporation
• On 11:00 am EDT, Tuesday June 16, 2009

NEW YORK, June 16, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veteran business journalist Sasha Salama joins Gary Steele President, CEO and Chairman of Landec Corporation (LNDC) to discuss the company's industry, strategy, financials and positioning.

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Gary Steele is the President, CEO and Chairman of Landec Corporation, a publicly traded materials science company in Menlo Park, California since 1991. Landec Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and sells temperature-activated and other specialty polymer products for a variety of food, agricultural and licensed partner applications. Landec had revenues of over $235 million in fiscal year 2008 and the Company has been profitable since 2003.

Prior to his employment at Landec, Gary was President and CEO of Molecular Devices Corporation in Sunnyvale, California from 1985 to 1991 and before that he was Vice President of Product Development at Genentech Corp., a biotechnology company in So. San Francisco, California from 1981 to 1985. After graduation from Stanford University in 1975, Gary worked as Senior Manager at McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm in San Francisco, California.

About Landec Corporation (LNDC)

Landec is a materials science company that designs, develops, manufactures and sells temperature-activated and other specialty polymer products for a variety of food, agricultural and licensed partner applications. Landec's core polymer products are based on its patented proprietary Intelimer(r) polymers which differ from other polymers in that they can be customized to abruptly change their physical characteristics when heated or cooled through a pre-set temperature switch. These proprietary polymers are tailored for specific changes at specific temperatures, enabling unique and differentiating product advantages for targeted growth market applications. For more information visit Landec's website at www.landec.com.

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