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  • SARA LEE CORP Profile

    Sara Lee sliced up its portfolio and chose cheesecake over clothing. Jettisoning its apparel businesses, Sara Lee now has three business groups. The Sara Lee Food & Beverage business group is a major US packaged-meat maker (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean), and a leading US provider of fresh sliced bread as well as those famous raid-the-refrigerator-at-midnight frozen cheesecakes. The Sara Lee International group oversees non-North American beverage and bakery sales and its worldwide Household & Body Care business segment. The Sara Lee Foodservice group supplies coffee, meat, and bakery products to US foodservice companies.
    Brenda C. Barnes
    CEO
    3500 Lacey Rd.

    Downers Grove, IL 60515-5424

    http://www.saralee.com

    Phone: 630-598-8100

    Fax: 630-598-8482
    Sector: Consumer Goods Industry: Food & Beverage
  • 2007 Sales 2007 Sales Growth 2007 Net Income 2007 Employees
    $12,278,000,000 -23.0% $504,000,000 52,400
  • Key Executives: SLE

    Name Title Officer Since
    Brenda C. Barnes CEO 7/1/04
    L.M. (Theo) de Kool CFO -
    Roderick A. Palmore General Counsel -
    James W. Nolan Executive VP -
    Christopher J. (CJ) Fraleigh Executive VP -
    Adriaan Nühn Executive VP -
    Diana S. Ferguson Senior VP -
    Frank van Oers Senior VP -
  • Top Competitors: SLE

  • Insider Trends: SLE

    Sentiment for SLE is NEGATIVE

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    • 2M
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    • 6M
    • Market Value of Insider Sales
    • Market Value of Insider Purchases
    Total dollar value of all insider purchases and sales over 12 months
  • Insider Transactions: SLE

    Date Name Shares Transaction Type Market Value
    06/03/08 JANSSEN VINCENT H A M 4,000 Planned Sale $54,560.00
    06/03/08 JANSSEN VINCENT H A M 4,000 Sale $54,600.00
    03/14/08 CROWN JAMES S 1.06 M Purchase $13.65 M
  • Ownership Breakdown : SLE

    Large Block Holder Type Number  
    Institutions 622.00
     
    Mutual Fund 974.00
    Other Major 18.00
  • Short Interest Volume: SLE

    Data as of 6/25/08
    Current Short Interest Shares 301.99 M
    Current Short Interest Ratio 3.00
    Float 703.86 M
    Short Interest as % of Float 2.10
    Average Daily Volume 5.42 M
    Outstanding Shares 706.31 M