Article: HEINZ KETCHUP SIGN LIGHTS UP NORTH SIDE

PITTSBURGH, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Light-Up Night in June? On Pittsburgh's North Shore, Light-Up Night came five months early as the H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ) brightened this evening's sky with a colorful new animated neon sign atop its North Side plant.

Anthony J.F. O'Reilly, Heinz's chairman, president and chief executive officer, flipped the switch for the 42-foot-tall Heinz sign in a ceremony that began at 8:57 p.m., during a cruise with 600 Heinz employees aboard the Gateway Clipper Fleet's "Majestic." The countdown started as the boat stopped on the Allegheny River just offshore from the Heinz facility. As the sign began its inaugural glow, fireworks erupted ...

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