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By 2009, Sara Lee was pursuing the sale of its household and body care business in their continuing effort to focus on core business. [14] In April, Sara Lee launched a state-of-the-art research and development center named The Kitchens of Sara Lee, a 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m 2) campus at the company's headquarters in Downers Grove. [15]
Consolidated Foods, now Sara Lee Corporation, acquired Fuller Brush in 1968; [9] Avard Fuller retired a year later. [7] Office operations moved initially to Niles, Illinois, then relocated along with manufacturing and research to Great Bend, Kansas in 1973. [4] As of 1985, all of the company's sales were still generated door-to-door. [9]
Sara Lee Corp. acquired its fresh-baked division in 2001 with the acquisition of Earthgrains for a then industry record of US$2.8 billion. This sale represents a 66% discount. In November 2011, Sara Lee Corporation completed the sale of its North American fresh bakery business to Grupo Bimbo for $709 million. [17]
Champion (also stylized as Champion U.S.A.) is a brand of clothing, specializing in sportswear owned and marketed by American apparel company Hanesbrands (based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina), which was spun off by the Sara Lee Corporation in 2006.
Sara Lee's sale of its North American Bakery business is now fully baked. The company announced today that it's selling the unit to Mexico's Grupo Bimbo for $959 Million. The deal follows earlier ...
Under the terms of the deal, Sara Lee's stock underwent a one-for-five reverse split. As of June 27, 2012, all Sara Lee shareholders saw their holdings transform into Hillshire Brands shares and shrink by a factor of five. In addition, each former Sara Lee shareholder received shares in D.E. Master Blenders 1753 on a one-to-one basis. The ...
Sara Lee reportedly is close to cutting a deal to sell its North American bakery business to Grupo Bimbo for a sticker price of $900 million to $1 billion, according to a Bloomberg report. That ...
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