Sara Lee Corporation Announces Sally Grimes Will Become Chief Innovation Officer for Hillshire Brands Company
June 15 2012 - 12:00PM
UK Regulatory
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Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE: SLE) today announced that Sally Grimes,
41, will become chief innovation officer of Hillshire Brands
Company (Sara Lee's North American business) after the spin-off of
its International Coffee and Tea business. Grimes will have
responsibility for the company's innovation process, including
identifying strategies, business opportunities and new technologies
and then developing new capabilities with partners, new business
models and new industry structures to serve those opportunities.
She will join Hillshire Brands on July 9, 2012. Grimes will report
to Sean Connolly, chief executive officer, Hillshire Brands
Company.
"Hillshire Brands will be the most innovative meat-centric food
company in the U.S.," said Connolly. "Sally's ingenuity and
creativity as well as her ability to steward enterprise-wide
recognition of new ideas and trends make her a welcome addition to
Hillshire Brands and our leadership team."
Most recently, Grimes was global vice president, marketing,
writing and creative expression GBU at Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. She
was responsible for implementing marketing planning and filling the
innovation pipeline for the Sharpie, Paper Mate, Expo, Prismacolor
and Rolodex brands.
Before joining Newell Rubbermaid, Grimes spent ten years at
Kraft Foods, Inc. in a variety of marketing and brand management
positions, rising from associate brand manager to Senior Category
Business Director. She began her career in banking.
Grimes received her bachelor's degree in Finance from Valparaiso
University and her Master of Business Administration from the
University of Chicago. She was recognized by Fast Company as one of
The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012.
About Sara Lee Corporation
Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE: SLE) and its leading portfolio of food and
beverage brands, including Ball Park, Douwe Egberts, Hillshire
Farm, Jimmy Dean, Pickwick Teas, Sara Lee and Senseo, generate
nearly $8 billion in annual net sales from continuing operations
and employ approximately 20,000 people worldwide. In January, 2011,
Sara Lee Corp. announced that it will divide the company into two
pure -play publicly traded companies, one focused on the
international coffee and tea market and the other on North American
meats. For more information on the company, please visit
www.saralee.com.
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