Birds Eye MILITARY

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Birds Eye operates through distinct regional business perimeters: Birds Eye Limited operates the UK website under Nomad Foods Europe Limited, Nomad markets Birds Eye principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Conagra Brands separately lists Birds Eye® among its North American brands.^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}

Simplot Australia is a separate Australia/New Zealand Birds Eye perimeter. Simplot Australia identifies Birds Eye as one of its brands, states that the Simplot group acquired Birds Eye and other Australian food brands in 1995, and identifies Simplot Australia Pty. Ltd. as its site operator.^{8, 9, 10, 11, 12}

The Australian Business Register identifies Simplot Australia Pty Limited, ABN 98 070 579 609 and ACN 070 579 609, as an active Australian private company with a Victorian main business location and GST registration from 1 July 2000.¹³ The Modern Slavery Statements Register identifies Simplot Australia Pty Ltd, ACN 070 579 609, as the reporting entity for 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025 and classifies it as manufacturing, with the United States as country of headquarters.¹⁴

Simplot Australia states that it operates across Australia and New Zealand, while its current offices page identifies Australian offices as Simplot Australia Pty Ltd and a New Zealand sales-office mailing address as Simplot Pty Ltd in Penrose, Auckland.^{8, 15} Birds Eye New Zealand states that displayed Birds Eye marks are registered or licensed trademarks of Simplot Australia.¹⁶ No separate New Zealand Birds Eye operating entity, distributor, franchisee, or licensee was identified in the bounded review; the precise New Zealand product-supply and import entity remains unverified.^{15, 16}

Simplot Australia’s current materials and historical ACCC material describe it as part of the privately held, family-owned J.R. Simplot Company.^{17, 18} The reviewed materials do not provide a current complete ownership chart, immediate holding-company identification, or complete beneficial-ownership table for the Australian/New Zealand operating perimeter.^{17, 14, 13}

No public evidence identified of a Birds Eye/Nomad, Birds Eye Australia/Simplot Australia, or identified Australian/New Zealand entity contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum, end-user certificate, export licence, or physical-supply contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, Elbit, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime.^{6, 7, 19, 20, 8, 14}

The reviewed Nomad filings, Israeli Ministry of Defense vendor portal, and SIBAT directory did not identify a Birds Eye, Birds Eye Limited, Birds Eye Ireland Limited, Nomad Foods, Simplot Australia, or Birds Eye Australia contract, tender award, or framework agreement with an Israeli security body.^{6, 7, 19, 20, 8, 14} The Ministry of Defense portal describes supplier registration, procurement, request-for-proposal, order, certification, and invoice functions, but its public-facing page does not provide a searchable vendor or award register naming those entities.²⁰

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Nomad describes its portfolio as civilian frozen fish, vegetables, chicken or poultry, meals, pizza, and ice cream sold through consumer grocery-retail channels in European markets.^{6, 7} The Australian Birds Eye website markets standard frozen vegetables, potato products, and frozen fish for consumers.¹⁰

No public evidence identified of tactical, ruggedised, military-specification, contract-modified, defence-grade, or security-specific Birds Eye, Nomad, or Simplot Australia products, or of export licences or end-user certificates for Israeli military or security end users.^{6, 7, 10, 14}

Simplot Australia’s 2022 announcement states that its Bathurst facility produces Birds Eye and Edgell shelf-stable and frozen vegetable products; this identifies civilian food manufacturing in Australia, not Israeli military procurement, export, or military supply.¹²

Nomad’s 2017 annual report stated that it held national trademarks for the iglo brand in Israel, but that historic disclosure establishes intellectual-property coverage only and does not establish Israeli sales, physical operations, military procurement, or a defence relationship.²¹ The current status of that historic iglo Israel trademark reference is not established by the reviewed materials.²¹

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Nomad’s FY2025 significant-subsidiary schedule lists Birds Eye Limited and Birds Eye Ireland Limited among European group entities and does not list an Israeli or occupied-territory subsidiary.⁶ That disclosed schedule does not exclude unlisted counterparties, distributors, or secondary-market activity.⁶

No public evidence identified of Birds Eye, Nomad, Simplot Australia, or their equipment or services being used in settlement construction, demolitions, separation-barrier or checkpoint work, military installations, detention facilities, or other occupation-related physical infrastructure.^{6, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26}

Simplot Australia discloses ordinary Australian agricultural activity, including local grower contracts, harvesting and transport of agricultural inputs to Australian factories, potato storage, and Australian transportation, distribution, and cold-store providers; those disclosures do not identify an Israeli customer, military end user, defence shipment, or Israeli port.^{26, 27}

The supplied report review found no Birds Eye reference in the specified UN settlement-related materials, which is a document-scoped finding rather than a database-wide clearance.^{22, 23, 24, 25}

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of Birds Eye, Nomad, Simplot Australia, or identified Australian/New Zealand entities supplying components, raw materials, specialist manufacturing, co-production, technology transfer, licensed manufacturing, joint development, or specialist services to Elbit, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime.^{6, 7, 19, 8, 14}

A SIBAT directory result for “Bird-Eye” concerns Israel Aerospace Industries’ Bird-Eye 650 unmanned-aircraft system and does not establish any relationship with the Birds Eye food brand, Nomad Foods, or Simplot Australia.¹⁹

Nomad’s disclosed business is a consumer frozen-food portfolio, and the disclosed Australian Birds Eye offering is consumer frozen food rather than specialist manufacturing or defence technology.^{6, 7, 10}

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Birds Eye, Nomad, Simplot Australia, or Birds Eye Australia contracts for catering, food service, transport, freight, facilities, port handling, cold storage, or other sustainment services to Israeli military or security operations, IDF bases, detention facilities, security installations, or military cargo operations.^{7, 20, 15, 26}

No public evidence identified of Birds Eye, Nomad, Simplot Australia, or Birds Eye Australia service activity at installations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, or Negev.^{6, 7, 15, 26}

Simplot’s 2022 seafood-sourcing statement describes supplier risk assessment under Marine Stewardship Council criteria, but does not name Israeli suppliers, military purchasers, or Israeli security end users.²⁸ The reviewed Israeli Ministry of Defense portal remains a procurement-source lead, but its public-facing page did not identify a Birds Eye, Nomad, or Simplot supplier award.²⁰

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified that Birds Eye, Nomad, Simplot Australia, or the identified Australian/New Zealand operating entities manufacture, integrate, maintain, or supply weapons, munitions, precursor materials, strategic-platform components, targeting systems, weapons-effect software, or weapons-specific subsystems.^{6, 7, 10}

The disclosed product categories are consumer frozen foods, and the similarly named Bird-Eye 650 entry in the Israeli defence directory is unrelated to the Birds Eye food business.^{6, 7, 19, 10}

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of an export-licence decision, end-user certification, embargo or sanctions enforcement action, export-control proceeding, or court case concerning a Birds Eye, Nomad, or Simplot Australia defence-supply relationship with Israel.^{6, 7, 20, 14}

The word “Israel” produces no match in Nomad’s FY2025 Form 20-F, which is a document-scoped absence and does not establish that no relationship exists outside that filing.⁶ The 2024 Nomad filing likewise contains no occurrence of “Israel,” while identifying Birds Eye as primarily marketed in the United Kingdom and Ireland.⁷

The identified 2020 ACCC matter concerned Australian country-of-origin labelling for frozen fish products processed at Simplot’s Kelso, New South Wales facility; Simplot changed labelling for 31 products from “Made in Australia” to “Packed in Australia,” and the record does not identify an Israel or defence nexus.²⁷

The 2009 ACCC exclusive-dealing notification concerned customer rewards linked to products from Fonterra Brands or Unilever Australia and provides no Israel or security nexus.²⁹

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

The supplied deterministic full-text review found no Birds Eye reference in the UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 report, the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database updates, or the other specified report corpus.^{22, 23, 24, 25} This is a report-scoped absence finding and does not establish database-wide absence, clear individual directors or shareholders, or exclude non-public contracts, distributors, or individual-principal activity.^{22, 23, 24, 25}

AFSC describes its database as covering companies implicated in specified occupation-related human-rights violations, and Who Profits describes its company database as profiling commercial involvement in the occupation economy, but the reviewed landing pages do not themselves establish a Birds Eye profile or absence.^{30, 31}

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott or divestment campaign specifically alleging Birds Eye, Nomad, Simplot Australia, or Birds Eye Australia defence-sector activity, an institutional divestment on that ground, or a related company response within the completed search scope.^{6, 22, 23, 24, 8, 14}

Nomad’s FY2025 filing identifies Sir Martin E. Franklin and Noam Gottesman as co-chairs and Amit Pilowsky as a director, while a February 2026 Schedule 13D identifies Franklin and Gottesman as disclosed beneficial owners above five percent but below ten percent.^{6, 32} A 2012 Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Form 990 lists Martin E. Franklin as a director and describes the organisation’s support for programmes and facilities for IDF soldiers and their families, but the record does not establish a current role, donation, or Birds Eye or Nomad corporate payment.³³

Nomad’s filings state that Pilowsky served in the Israeli Air Force from July 1993 to January 2004 and retired as a Major, and that his investment firm focuses primarily on Israeli and Israeli-related growth-technology companies.^{6, 7} Those disclosures do not identify a defence-industry investment, Israeli defence-company directorship, Israeli state-security contract, or Birds Eye or Nomad supply relationship.^{6, 7}

J.R. Simplot Company’s current leadership page identifies Scott Simplot as chairman, Garrett Lofto as president and chief executive officer, and named Simplot-family and non-family directors and executive-committee members.³⁴ The reviewed official sources do not provide a complete beneficial-ownership table or percentage interests for individual family members, and do not establish a defence-industry role, Israeli military connection, settlement connection, military donation, or public co-belligerency statement by those listed persons.^{17, 34}

Birds Eye is not a single globally controlled business: Conagra Brands lists Birds Eye® among its brands in North America, so findings concerning the Nomad/Birds Eye Limited or Simplot Australia perimeters should not be attributed to separately owned North American brand activity without transaction-specific evidence.⁵