"Sara Lee" redirects here. For other uses, see Sara Lee (disambiguation).
Sara Lee Corporation
Company type
Private
Traded as
NYSE: SLE
Industry
Consumer goods
Founded
1939
Defunct
2012
Fate
Split
Successors
Hillshire Brands
D.E Master Blenders 1753
Grupo Bimbo
Headquarters
Downers Grove, Illinois, U.S.
Key people
Jan Bennink (chairman) Marcel Smits (CEO)
Products
Food, beverage, and household and body care products
The Sara Lee Corporation was an American consumer-goods company based in Downers Grove, Illinois.[1][2] On July 4, 2012, Sara Lee Corporation was split into two companies: one for North American operations renamed Hillshire Brands (the Sara Lee name continued to be used on bakery and certain deli products distributed by Hillshire Brands), the other for international beverage and bakery businesses named D.E Master Blenders 1753.[3]
It had operations in more than 40 countries and sold its products in over 180 countries. Its international operations were headquartered in Utrecht, The Netherlands. As of 2020 the Sara Lee brand is owned by Kohlberg & Company, making frozen cakes, etc. at its present facility in Illinois, United States.
Sara Lee is also the brand name of a number of frozen and packaged foods, often known for the long-running slogan "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee," often incorrectly reported as "Nobody does it like Sara Lee".[citation needed]
As of 2005, Sara Lee Corporation had operations in more than 40 countries; sold food, beverage, and household products in over 180 countries; and had some 137,000 employees worldwide.[4]
^"Investor Contacts." Sara Lee Corporation. Retrieved on January 31, 2011. "Sara Lee Corporation Investor Relations Department 3500 Lacey Road Downers Grove, Illinois 60515-5424 ."
^"About Sara Lee." Sara Lee Corporation. Retrieved on January 31, 2011. "Based in Downers Grove, Ill.,[...]"
^Cite error: The named reference Split was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Sara Lee 2005 Annual Report". Sara Lee Corporation. Archived from the original on July 9, 2007.
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