Diamond Foods, Inc.

Diamond Foods, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in 2005 as the successor to Diamond Walnut Growers, Inc., a member-owned California agricultural cooperative association. In July 2005, Diamond Walnut Growers, Inc. merged with and into Diamond Foods, Inc., converted from a cooperative association to a Delaware corporation and completed an initial public offering of Diamond Foods, Inc.’s common stock. The terms “Diamond Foods,” “Company,” “Registrant,” “we,” “us” and “our” mean Diamond Foods, Inc. and its subsidiaries unless the context indicates otherwise. We are a branded food company specializing in processing, marketing and distributing culinary, snack, in-shell and ingredient nuts. Our company was founded in 1912 and has a strong heritage in the walnut market under the Diamond of California brand.