PHOENIX, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Inventure Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNAK), a leading specialty snack food manufacturer, today announced that CEO Terry McDaniel and CFO Steve Weinberger will present to investors and analysts at the Lambert, Edwards & Associates fifth annual SMID-West Stock Conference, to be held on Dec. 10, 2009, at The Allerton Hotel in Chicago. SMID-West 2009 is an invitation-only event that will introduce professional investors from the buy-side and sell-side to the management teams of top-performing small- and mid-cap (SMID) companies in a one-on-one and small-group meeting format. For more information regarding the conference, please contact Amanda Passage at (616) 233-0500 or . Lambert, Edwards & Associates, a leading Midwest-based investor relations firm, is hosting SMID-West 2009 in partnership with PR Newswire, Cision, Roadcast(TM) and Vintage Filings. About The Inventure Group, Inc. With manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Indiana and Washington, The Inventure Group is a marketer and manufacturer of Intensely Different(TM) specialty brands in indulgent and better-for-you food categories under a variety of Company owned and licensed brand names, including T.G.I. Friday's(R), BURGER KING(TM), Rader Farms(R), Boulder Canyon(TM) Natural Foods, Poore Brothers(R), Tato Skins(R) and Bob's Texas Style(R). For further information about The Inventure Group visit http://www.inventuregroup.net/. Statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Because such statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ from the forward-looking statements contained in this press release and that may affect the Company's prospects in general include, but are not limited to, the potential need for additional financing, acquisition-related risks, significant competition, customer acceptance of new products, dependence upon major customers, dependence upon existing and future license agreements, general risks related to the food products industry, deteriorating economic conditions, and such other factors as are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. About Lambert, Edwards & Associates LE&A (http://www.lambert-edwards.com/) is a top-20 Investor Relations firm nationally and among the top Midwest-based PR firms with more than 110 clients based in 20 states and five countries. LE&A serves small- and mid-cap companies and national brands in five practice areas: Automotive, Consumer, Financial Communications, Health Care & Technology and Public Affairs. LE&A has posted 10 consecutive years of growth and earned three Silver Anvil awards - the profession's highest honor - in the past three years, including the 2007 Small-Cap IR Program of the Year. DATASOURCE: The Inventure Group, Inc. CONTACT: Steve Weinberger, Chief Financial Officer, The Inventure Group, Inc., +1-623-932-6200 Web Site: http://www.inventuregroup.net/

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