Sara Lee Corp., which plans to split into two companies next year, will do so without its North American chief executive.
The Downers Grove-based company said Monday that C.J. Fraleigh, a six-year veteran who has been credited with improved operations and increased marketing for Sara Lee's North American meats, has resigned.
"We now believe a different approach is needed," Sara Lee Chairman Jan Bennink said in a release, but did not elaborate. Expected in the first half of 2012, the split will create two stand-alone companies: an international beverage business, known as CoffeeCo, and a new company that will comprise Sara Lee's North American retail division, which makes products such as Hillshire Farm sausage and Sara Lee deli meats, and its North American food-service division, which provides food for the restaurant industry. That business, for now, is being referred to as MeatCo.
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