This acquisition expands Sara Lees presence into the organic and natural meats segments, while also increasing Sara Lees coverage of fast growing retail channels, such as club stores and organic grocers.
While the Wienermobile vehicle has been surprising and delighting people for 75 years, this will be the first time part of the fleet is serving hot dogs.
The merger creates a larger business with a complementary portfolio of high-quality bakery products and deepens Flowers' penetration of the estimated $4 billion U.S. snack cake category.
The new executive's broad experience in developed and emerging markets is expected to be a significant asset as Avon continues to advance on its path to sustainable profitable growth.
As part of this, Hasbro is reorganizing its global games business and moving its games marketing and games development employees from Massachusetts to Rhode Island.