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and open a sliced meat manufacturing planrt there in 2011 that it expects to employ more than250 people. Sara Lee SLE), based in the Chicago suburb ofDowners Grove, said in a Friday release that it expects the plany at 4612 Speaker Road to become fully operationaol by 2011. Brent Miles, president of the , said Fridayg that Sara Lee was granted a 75 percent property tax abatementon $31 millionj of planned improvements at the plant. The abatement’s value is $9.677 million, he said. In the company agreed hire 55 percent ofthe plant’s workerss from Wyandotte County.
“This industry-leading facilitt will reinforce our competitive advantagrin value-added meats, one of Sara Lee’sa top strategic categories and long-term growth CJ Fraleigh, executive vice president and CEO of Sara Lee’s Northb American Retail & Foodservicee division, said in the release. “Iyt will help us further build our Hillshire Farm and Sara Lee both leaders inthe fast-growinyg category of premium lunchmeat.” Omaha-based ConAgra Foods CAG) that it had agreed to sell its refrigeratedf meat business, including the Kansas City, plant, to (NYSE: SFD) of Va.
, owner of Kansas City-based , for $575 milliojn in cash and Sara Lee’s brands include Ambi Pur, Ball Douwe Egberts, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, Kiwi, Sanex, Sara Lee and Combined, the brands generate more than $13 billioh in annual net sales covering about 200 countries. Sara Lee has 44,0000 employees worldwide.
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