United Natural Foods to Release Fiscal 2008 Fourth Quarter Results on September 3, 2008

    DAYVILLE, Conn., Aug. 14 /EMWNews/ -- United Natural

Foods, Inc., (Nasdaq: UNFI) announced today that it intends to release its

financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, ended August 2,

2008, before the market opens on Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Management

will conduct a conference call and audio webcast at 11:00 a.m. ET September

3, 2008 to review the Company's quarterly results, market trends and future

outlook.



    The conference call dial-in number is 303-262-2193. An audio webcast of

the conference call will be available to the public, on a listen-only

basis, via the internet at http://www.earnings.com or at the Investor Relations

section of the Company's website at http://www.unfi.com. Please allow extra time,

prior to the call, to visit the site and download the necessary software to

listen to the Internet broadcast. The online archive of the webcast will be

available for 30 days.

    About United Natural Foods



    United Natural Foods, Inc. carries and distributes more than 60,000

products to more than 17,000 customers nationwide. The Company serves a

wide variety of retail formats including conventional supermarket chains,

natural product superstores, independent retail operators and the food

service channel. United Natural Foods, Inc. was ranked by Forbes in 2005 as

one of the "Best Managed Companies in America," ranked by Fortune in 2006

and 2007 as one of its "Most Admired Companies," and ranked by Business

Ethics as one of its "100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2006." For more

information on United Natural Foods, Inc., visit the Company's website at

http://www.unfi.com.



    "Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform

Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding the Company's

business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements"

that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and

uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those

contained in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to

general business conditions, the impact of competition and our dependence

on principal customers, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's quarterly

report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on

June 5, 2008, and its other filings under the Securities Exchange Act of

1934, as amended. Any forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the

Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and, as such, speak only

as of the date made. The Company is not undertaking to update any

information in the foregoing reports until the effective date of its future

reports required by applicable laws. Any projections of future results of

operations should not be construed in any manner as a guarantee that such

results will in fact occur. These projections are subject to change and

could differ materially from final reported results. The Company may from

time to time update these publicly announced projections, but it is not

obligated to do so.