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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
Ruddick Corporation:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Ruddick Corporation and subsidiaries (the
Company) as of October 3, 2010 and September 27, 2009, and the related consolidated statements of operations,
shareholders’ equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended
October 3, 2010. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we also have audited the
financial statement schedule “Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves.” These consolidated financial
statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility
is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our
audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public CompanyAccounting Oversight Board
(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial
statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects,
the financial position of the Company and subsidiaries as of October 3, 2010 and September 27, 2009, and the results
of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended October 3, 2010, in
conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also in our opinion, the related financial statement
schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly,
in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of October 3, 2010, based on criteria
established in “Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
of the Treadway Commission (COSO),” and our report dated December 1, 2010 expressed an unqualified opinion
on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Charlotte, North Carolina
December 1, 2010
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