The European investment group that recently bought Peet's Coffee & Tea and Caribou Coffee agreed to buy D.E. Master Blenders, a Sara Lee Coffee Spinoff, for roughly $10 billion.

Viennese-based investment company makes agreed offer for the Dutch coffee group less than a year after it was spun out of Sara Lee

CHICAGO, April 1 (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness giant CargillInc on Monday said it named Marcel Smits, the formerchief executive of packaged food maker Sara Lee Corp, as itschief financial officer effective April 15.

CHICAGO, April 1 (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill Inc on Monday said it named Marcel Smits, the former chief executive of packaged food maker Sara Lee Corp, as its chief financial officer effective April 15.

CHICAGO, April 1 (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill Inc on Monday said it named Marcel Smits, the former chief executive of packaged food maker Sara Lee Corp, as its chief financial officer effective April 15.

Mr. Levenson was an advertising executive who helped produce some of the mid-20th century’s most memorable campaigns for clients like Volkswagen, El Al and Sara Lee.

At the height of her career, Brenda Barnes famously quit her big job at Pepsi to be with her kids. Years later, a massive stroke nearly killed her--and her daughter returned the favor.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Ralph’s owner Kroger Co. and Sara Lee parent Grupo Bimbo are all said to be in the running to buy up assets from liquidating Twinkies maker Hostess, according to a report this week.

The former CEO of Sara Lee was one of the most powerful women in business before she suffered a stroke that curtailed her career - but gave her a life.

In Q2 Dan Loeb went to town to his holdings as of March 31. Of his roughly 38 different positions, Loeb cut 24 names to zero among which Cisco, Marvell Technology, Sara Lee, Google, Wells Fargo (with the Octogenarian of Omaha likely buying every shar

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Ralcorp. , the St. Louis maker of cereal, snacks, sauces and bakery products, said Wednesday its third-quarter profit rose as it absorbed the acquisitions of the Sara Lee refrigerated dough business, Petri Baking Products an

The Netherlands-based Douwe Egberts coffee business has unearthed accounting irregularities shortly after being spun out of Sara Lee

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Sara Lee spin-off Hillshire Brandsrose 2.5% to $28.70 Friday morning in its first day of trading. Sara Lee late Thursday effectively split its company into two, completing a 1-for-5 reverse stock split of its

Procter & Gamble has decided to concentrate on core markets. Others have chosen to split up into separate entities to help address specific business sub-segment or regional growth targets more effectively as Kraft Foods or Sara Lee announced in 2011.

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Monster Beverage Corp.will replace Sara Lee Corp.in the S&P 500 Index , S&P Indices said late Thursday. The change will be made after the close of regular-session trading on June 28th when Sara Lee's spinoff of its intern

Fast-growing Monster Beverage will be added to the S&P 500 index next week, replacing Sara Lee.

June 18 - Overview -- Sara Lee Corp. will spin off its coffee and tea business, D.EMaster Blenders 1753 B.V. (BBB/Stable/A-2), on June 28, 2012 -- After the spin-off Sara Lee will be...

-- U. S. consumer goods maker Sara Lee Corp. will spin off its international coffeeand tea business D.E MASTER BLENDERS 1753 B.V. (Master Blenders) and list it on theNYSE Euronext exchange in Amsterdam.

June 15 (Reuters) - Moody's lowers Sara Lee's rating to Baa2 asspinoff nears; outlook is stable

June 13 - Fitch Ratings has removed the ratings of Sara Lee Corporation (Sara Lee) and its wholly owned-subsidiary, Sara Lee/DE Global FinanceB.V. from Rating Watch Evolving. Fitch affirms the following ratings: Sara Lee Corporation--Long-term IDR at

AMSTERDAM, June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer goods makerSara Lee listed its coffee and tea unit, D.E MasterBlenders, on the Amsterdam exchange on Tuesday, givingit a market value of about 4.7 billion euros ($5.88 billion).

Sara Lee is preparing to spin off its coffee and tea business, which is attempting to go upmarket

Their old ads used to say "...but nobody doesn't like SARA LEE."?? Except, I guess, the Board. SARA LEE is gone.?? HILLSHIRE BRANDS COMPANY is in. SARA LEE does not disappear, at least. It will still identify desserts and certain meat products, and a

Food company Sara Lee is naming its North America company Hillshire Brands, including Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean and Ball Park.

As part of its ongoing corporate shakeup, Sara Lee wants to be embrace its new meat-centric identity. Executives chose the name Hillshire Brands.

Sara Lee is changing its name to Hillshire Brands, part of a broad effort to split off its Europe-based beverage business and rescue falling sales of packaged-meat products.

* Plans $100 mln in cost-savings by '15, sales and volumegrowth

* Plans $100 mln in cost-savings by '15, sales and volumegrowth

US food group Sara Lee is to spin off coffee company which is expected to have a market capitalisation of €4bn-€6bn and will begin trading on July 9

Running down corporate headlines of interest to investors early Friday.

Running down corporate headlines of interest to investors early Friday.

May 31 (Reuters) - Packaged food maker Sara Lee Corp, which is spinning off its coffee and tea business, saidthe new company will distribute a $3.00 per share specialdividend.

Food and beverage company Sara Lee, the top coffee roaster in Brazil, expects the domestic market to grow at 3-5% annually and sees significant potential to organically expand the market share of its popular brands like Pilao, Café do Ponto an

Sara Lee reported a fiscal third-quarter loss, due in part to business sales and impairment charges. The packaged-food company's sales growth was hampered by lower volumes.

May 3 (Reuters) - Packaged food maker Sara Lee Corp reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday andsaid full-year earnings would be in the middle of its forecastrange.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Sara Lee Corp.said Thursday its third-quarter profit fell 66% to $66 million, or 20 cents a share, from $194 million, or 20 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted profit totaled 20 cents a share in the latest quarte

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 19 (Reuters) - Nestle has won a case against rivals, including Sara Lee, atthe European Patent Office (EPO) concerning its fast-growingNespresso coffee machines and capsules.

April 10 (Reuters) - Sara Lee Corp : * Moodys disclosures on credit ratings of Sara Lee Corporation

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Sara Lee Corp.said Tuesday it'll pay an undisclosed price to buy Express.Coffee of Brazil. "This acquisition substantially expands the branding and consumer connection platform for our Pilao brand," the company said.Market P

* New Dutch-based coffee group to up pressure on Nestle,Kraft

In preparation for a spinoff, Sara Lee Corp. named two operating chiefs to leads its international coffee and tea division. It also said the division will be renamed D.E. Master Blenders 1753 upon the spinoff.

Smithfield Foods says it has been approached by bankers who are aggressively seeking suitors for Sara Lee’s US meat business

(Reuters) - Wall Street bankers are trying to drum up interest in Sara Lee Corp'sNorth American meat business, according to Smithfield Foods Inc , a potential suitor.

March 8 (Reuters) - Wall Street bankers are trying todrum up interest in Sara Lee Corp's North American meatbusiness, according to Smithfield Foods Inc, a potentialsuitor.

March 8 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that the long-termcorporate credit and short-term and commercial paper ratings and outlook on SaraLee Corp. (BBB/Stable/A-2) are not currently affected by itsannouncement today of anticipated ou

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Sara Lee and Wynn Resorts were among the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 on Friday.The S&P 500 fell 4.23 points, or 0.31%, on Friday to close at 1,369.86.Shares of Sara Lee rose 7.06% on Friday to $21.83. The food produc

Sara Lee plans to list its coffee and tea business on the Amsterdam stock exchange, as part of its plan to split the company into two.