| Sara Lee Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of a range of branded packaged meat products, fresh and frozen bakery products, roast and ground coffee, and household and body care products worldwide. Its packaged meat products include hot dogs and corn dogs, breakfast sausages and sandwiches, smoked and dinner sausages, premium deli and luncheon meats, bacon, and cooked and dry hams. The company sells these products under Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee, Bryan, State Fair, and Kahns brands. It offers fresh and frozen baked products, which comprise bread, buns, bagels, rolls, muffins, specialty bread, frozen pies, cakes, cheesecakes, and other desserts under Sara Lee, Earth Grains, Grants Farm, Colonial, Rainbo, Holsum, IronKids, Mothers, Sunbeam, Healthy Choice, Heiners, Bimbo, CroustiPate, Ortiz, and BonGateaux brands. Sara Lee also provides roast, ground, and liquid coffee, cappuccinos, lattes, and teas under Douwe Egberts, Senseo, Maison du Cafe, Marcilla, Merrild, and Pickwick brands, as well as various sauces, dressings, and condiments. Further, the company offers household and body care products, such as soaps, shampoos, bath and shower products, deodorants, shaving creams, and toothpastes under Sanex, Duschdas, Radox, Monsavon, and Zendium brands; air care products, including air fresheners under the Ambi Pur brand; shoe care products comprising polishes, cleaners, and wax under the Kiwi brand; and insecticides under brands, such as Vapona, Catch, GoodKnight, Bloom, and Ridsect. It sells its products to mass retailers, supermarkets, mass merchandisers, distributors, restaurants, hospitals, warehouse clubs, national chains, and other large institutions through direct sales force and outside brokers. The company, formerly known as Consolidated Foods Corporation, was founded in 1939 and is based in Downers Grove, Illinois. |