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UNITED STATES ---------------------
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OMB APPROVAL
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 ---------------------
OMB Number: 3235-0101
FORM 144 Expires: May 31, 2000
Estimated average
NOTICE OF PROPOSED SALE OF SECURITIES burden hours per
response ........ 2.0
PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ---------------------
ACT OF 1933 S.E.C. USE ONLY
ATTENTION: TRANSMIT FOR FILING 3 COPIES ---------------------
OF THIS FORM CONCURRENTLY WITH DOCUMENT SEQUENCE NO.
EITHER PLACING AN ORDER WITH A BROKER TO
EXECUTE SALE OR EXECUTING A SALE ---------------------
DIRECTLY WITH A MARKET MAKER. CUSIP NUMBER
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WORK LOCATION
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1(a) Name of Issuer (b) I.R.S. Ident. No. (c) S.E.C. File No.
Keebler Foods Company 36-383-9556 001-13705
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1(d) Address of Issuer Street City State Zip Code (e) Telephone No.
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677 Larch Ave Elmhurst, IL 60126 Area Code Number
630 833-2900
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2(a) Name of Person For Whose Account (b) Social Security (c) Relationship (d) Address Street City State Zip Code
the Securities are to be Sold No. or I.R.S. to Issuer
Ident. No.
E. Nichol McCully ###-##-#### Officer 312 Briargate Hinsdale, IL 60521
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INSTRUCTION: THE PERSON FILING THIS NOTICE SHOULD CONTACT THE ISSUER TO OBTAIN
THE I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NUMBER
AND THE S.E.C. FILE NUMBER
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3(a) (b) (c) (d)
Title of the Name and Address of Each Broker S.E.C. USE ONLY Number of Shares Aggregate
Class of Through Whom the Securities Are to be --------------- or Other Units Market
Securities Offered or Each Market Maker Who is Broker-Dealer to be Sold Value
to be Sold Acquiring the Securities File Number (See Instr. 3(c)) (See Instr. 3(d))
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Keebler Foods Company 15,000 555,000
Common
(KBL:NYSE)
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(e) (f) (g)
Number of Shares Approximate Name of Each
or Other Units Date of Sale Securities
Outstanding (See Instr. 3(f)) Exchange
(See Instr. 3(e)) (Mo., Day, Yr.) (See Instr. 3(g))
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84,076,609 12/29/98
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. (a) Name of issuer
(b) Issuer's I.R.S. Identification Number
(c) Issuer's S.E.C. file number, if any
(d) Issuer's address, including zip code
(e) Issuer's telephone number, including area code
2. (a) Name of person for whose account the securities are
to be sold
(b) Such person's Social Security or I.R.S.
Identification number
(c) Such person's relationship to the issuer (e.g.,
officer, director, 10 percent stockholder, or member
of immediate family of any of the foregoing)
(d) Such person's address, including zip code
3. (a) Title of the class of securities to be sold
(b) Name and address of each broker through whom the
securities are intended to be sold
(c) Number of shares or other units to be sold (if debt
securities, give the aggregate face amount)
(d) Aggregate market value of the securities to be sold
as of a specified date within 10 days prior to the
filing of this notice
(e) Number of shares or other units of the class
outstanding, or if debt securities the face amount
thereof outstanding, as shown by the most recent
report or statement published by the issuer
(f) Approximate date on which the securities are to be
sold
(g) Name of each securities exchange, if any, on which
the securities are intended to be sold
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TABLE I--SECURITIES TO BE SOLD
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO THE ACQUISITION OF THE
SECURITIES TO BE SOLD AND WITH
RESPECT TO THE PAYMENT OF ALL OR ANY PART OF THE PURCHASE PRICE OR OTHER
CONSIDERATION THEREFOR:
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Title of Date You Nature of Acquisition Name of Person From Amount of Date of Nature of Payment
the Class Acquired Transaction Whom Acquired Securities Payment
(If gift, also give Acquired
date donor acquired)
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Keebler Foods Dec. 29, Option Exercise Keebler Foods Company Dec. 29,
Company Common 1998 (Issuer) 15,000 1998 Cash
(KBL)
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. If the securities were purchased and full payment therefor was not made in
cash at the time of purchase, explain in the tables or in a note thereto the
nature of the consideration given. If the consideration consisted of any
note or other obligation, or if payment was made in installments describe
the arrangement and state when the note or other obligation was discharged
in full or the last installment paid.
2. If within two years after the acquisition of the securities the person for
whose account they are to be sold had any short positions, put or other
option to dispose of securities referred to in paragraph (d)(3) of Rule 144,
furnish full information with respect thereto.
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TABLE II--SECURITIES SOLD DURING THE PAST THREE MONTHS
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO ALL SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER
SOLD DURING THE PAST THREE
MONTHS BY THE PERSON FOR WHOSE ACCOUNT THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE SOLD:
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Name and Address of Seller Title of Securities Sold Date of Sale Amount of Gross Proceeds
Securities
Sold
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E. Nichol McCully Keebler Foods Company. Common 10/2/98 20,000 551,875
312 Briargate Ter. (KBL)
Hinsdale, IL 60521 Keebler Foods Company. Common 12/15/98 3,520 119,680
(KBL)
Keebler Foods Company. Common 11/24/98 31,480 1,000,000
(KBL)
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REMARKS:
INSTRUCTIONS:
See the definition of "person" in paragraph (a) of Rule 144. Information is to
be given not only as to the person for whose account the securities are to be
sold but also as to all other persons included in that definition. In addition,
information shall be given as to sales by all persons whose sales are required
by paragraph (e) of Rule 144 to be aggregated with sales for the account of the
person filing this notice.
December 29, 1998
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(Date of Notice)
ATTENTION:
The person for whose account the securities to which this notice relates are to
be sold hereby represents by signing this notice that he does not know any
material adverse information in regard to the current and prospective
operations of the issuer of the securities to be sold which has not been
publicly disclosed.
E. Nichol McCully
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(Signature)
The notice shall be signed by the person for whose account the securities are
to be sold. At least one copy
of the notice shall be manually signed. Any copies not manually signed shall
bear typed or printed signatures.
ATTENTION: INTERNATIONAL MISSTATEMENTS OR OMISSION OF FACTS CONSTITUTE FEDERAL
CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS (SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001)
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