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 tea 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 ham. The company sells these products under Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee, and State Fair 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, and regional and local brand names. Sara Lee also provides roast, ground, and liquid coffee; cappuccinos; and lattes, as well as hot and iced teas under Douwe Egberts, Senseo, Maison du Cafe, Marcilla, Merrild, and Pickwick brands. The company sells its products to mass retailers, supermarkets, mass merchandisers, distributors, restaurants, hospitals, warehouse clubs, national chains, and other institutions through direct sales force and outside brokers. The company was formerly known as Consolidated Foods Corporation and changed its name to Sara Lee Corporation in 1985. Sara Lee Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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