Hillshire Farm
Hillshire Farm is a brand of meat products marketed and owned by Hillshire Brands. The company was founded in 1934, and was purchased by Sara Lee in 1971. Friedrich (Fritz) Bernegger, (February 2, 1904 – April 30, 1988) born in Austria, started the business at the facility in New London, Wisconsin.[1]
Hillshire Farm's primary products are smoked sausage and Polska kielbasa. The brand introduced smoked sausages to much of the general population of the U.S. as a supermarket food and a nationally advertised food. Hillshire Farm sausages are about two feet long and horseshoe-shaped.
Due to the popularity of the Hillshire Farms brand of meat products In 2012, the Sara Lee Corporation Spun off into two companies the "Hillshire Brands" company and "Sara Lee".[2] In 2014 Tyson Foods bought the "Hillshire Brands Company" and remains the current owner of the brand.
Other products
- "Lit'l Smokies", a line of bite-sized smoked sausages
- Packaged deli-sliced meats for sandwiches
- Summer sausage, marketed mostly during the Christmas holiday
- Traditional bone-in hams which are either unsliced or spiral sliced
- Ball park hot dogs
- State Fair corn dogs