When Unilever finally unloaded its Birds Eye and Iglo frozen foods business last fall to private equity firm Permira for €1.7 billion ($2.2 billion), investors and analysts praised the Anglo-Dutch giant and sent its share price shooting up.

The low-margin, money-draining albatross hanging around Unilever's neck finally was shed. Clearly, not everyone saw it that way.

Among the optimists was Martin Glenn, new CEO of Birds Eye Iglo and the architect of the company's new strategy.

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