Sara Lee Corporation · Downers Grove, IL United States ·(NYSE: SLE)

Sara Lee chose cheesecake over clothing. Jettisoning its apparel business, Sara Lee now peddles mostly food and drink, along with some household goods. The Sara Lee Food & Beverage group is a major packaged-meat maker (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean), and a leading manufacturer of packaged sliced bread, as well as Ms. Lee's famous raid-the-refrigerator-at-midnight frozen cheesecakes. Sara Lee International oversees coffee, tea, and bakery operations in Europe, Australia, and Brazil. The Household and Body Care unit markets non-food products such as Kiwi shoe polish, Ambi Pur air fresheners, and Ridsect insecticides overseas. Its Foodservice group supplies coffee, meat, and bakery to North American foodservice operators.

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