date:Jul 03, 2012
Offering Hillshire Farms meats, Jimmy Dean sausages and Ball Park Franks, the new company began trading last Thursday after officially splitting from Sara Lee Corp., which is separating into a US meat business and global coffee and tea company. We see enormous potential for growth. Meat-centric meals is a $68 billion business and we have $3 billion of it, Connolly said.
The companys meat business is No. 1 in its core US markets: Hillshire Farm, an almost $1 billion brand, is the dinner-sausage