Sara Lee Company Description
Sara Lee sliced up its portfolio and chose cheesecake over clothing. Jettisoning its apparel businesses, Sara Lee now has three business groups. The Sara Lee Food & Beverage business group is a major US packaged-meat maker (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean), and a leading US provider of fresh sliced bread as well as those famous raid-the-refrigerator-at-midnight frozen cheesecakes. The Sara Lee International group oversees non-North American beverage and bakery sales and its worldwide Household & Body Care business segment. The Sara Lee Foodservice group supplies coffee, meat, and bakery products to US foodservice companies.
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The Company Description provides a historical perspective of Sara Lee's organization from inception to current status.
Produced by Hoover's in-house editorial team, the Company Description tracks ownership transitions, company progress via mergers and acquisitions, major growth milestones, and strategic initiatives, to provide a holistic view of Sara Lee's evolution in the marketplace.
