Sara Lee Corporation

Sara Lee Corporation
Company type	Private
Traded as	NYSE: SLE
Industry	Consumer goods
Founded	1939; 86 years ago
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] The Sara Lee name was used 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".

In 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.^[3] On July 4, 2012, Sara Lee Corporation was split into two companies: one for North American operations renamed Hillshire Brands, which continued to use the Sara Lee name on bakery and certain deli products, and the other for international beverage and bakery businesses that was named D.E Master Blenders 1753.^[4] Hillshire Brands was acquired by Tyson Foods in 2014.

In 2018, Tyson Foods sold the Sara Lee brand and product line to private investment firm Kohlberg & Company.^[5]

^ "Investor Contacts". Sara Lee Corporation. Archived from the original on February 2, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2011. Sara Lee Corporation Investor Relations Department 3500 Lacey Road Downers Grove, Illinois 60515-5424
^ "About Sara Lee". Sara Lee Corporation. Retrieved January 31, 2011. Based in Downers Grove, Ill.,[...]
^ Sara Lee 2005 Annual Report (Report). Sara Lee Corporation. Archived from the original on July 9, 2007.
^ Cite error: The named reference Split was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ https://www.kohlberg.com/investments/

[1] "Investor Contacts". Sara Lee Corporation. Archived from the original on February 2, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2011. Sara Lee Corporation Investor Relations Department 3500 Lacey Road Downers Grove, Illinois 60515-5424

[2] "About Sara Lee". Sara Lee Corporation. Retrieved January 31, 2011. Based in Downers Grove, Ill.,[...]

[annual-3] Sara Lee 2005 Annual Report (Report). Sara Lee Corporation. Archived from the original on July 9, 2007.

[Split-4] Cite error: The named reference Split was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] ttps://www.kohlberg.com/investments/

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