windows and glass; bath mittens, loofa straps, and kitchen cleaner spongers
Sales
Con tacts: Elie Samuel, President; Rena Samuel, Marketing Manager
JOHN B. SAN FILIPPO & SON, INC.* Nasdaq: JBSS
2299 Busse Road, Elk Grove Vil lage, IL 60007- 6057 USA
Tel: (847) 593- 2300 Fax: (847) 593- 3085
URL: www.jbssinc.com
To tal Fis cal 2007 Sales Vol ume: $540 Mil lion Per cent age of Sales in Ex clu sive Brands: 50%
Ex port Mar kets:
Europe , Asia , Oceania , Latin Amer ica, Can ada & Mex icoPro file: Es tab lished in 1922, this com pany has de vel oped into what it con sid ers to be “the most in no va tive and di ver si fied nuts, snack, and food proc es sor in the U.S.” This former, family- run busi ness con tin ued through four fam ily gen era - tions up un til 1992, when John B. San - filippo and Son went pub lic. The com pany since then has ac quired a number of com pa nies. In the past dec - ade, the com pany also has ex panded into in ter na tional sales. Its prod uct line is of fered un der sev eral bands: Fisher, Evon’s, Sun shine Country, Fla vor Tree, etc. The com pany op er ates as a proc es - sor, pack ager, mar keter, and dis tribu - tor of shelled and in- shell nuts and ses ame sticks, all of which are sold un - der its own brands and a va ri ety of pri - vate la bels. The com pany mar kets and dis trib utes other food and snack items. How ever, since 2006, this com pany has faced some fi nan cial prob lems, forc ing it to sell some of its fa cili ties, to try to re - ne goite terms with lend ers. In fis cal 2006 and 2007, the com pany suf fered sig nifi cant losses.
Prod ucts:
Snacking nuts, baking ingredient nuts, extruded snacks, peanut butter, chocolate chips, candies (hard/chocolate-covered)Sales
Con tacts: Jeff Sanfilippo, Sr. Vice-President Sales/Marketing; Jim Barker, Vice-President of Marketing
SAPUTO, INC..
6869 Met ro pol itain Est, Saint- Leonard (Que bec), H1P 1X8 CANADA
Tel: (514) 328-6662
Fax: N/A
URL: www.saputo.com
To tal Fis cal 2004 Sales Vol ume: $3 Bil lion (C$ $3.6 Bil lion) +5.1%
Per cent age of Sales in Ex clu sive Brands: N/A
Ex port Mar kets:
United States, South Amer icaPro file: Saputo is the larg est dairy proc es sor in Can ada and one of the larg est cheese proc es sors in North Amer ica, as well as the third larg est dairy proc es sor in Ar - gen tina. Over the past 50 years, this com pany has grown or gani cally and, more re cently, via ac qui si tions as well. In No vem ber 2003, the com pany ac - quired Molfino Her ma nos S.A., the third larag est dairy proc es sor in Ar gen - tina. In May 2005, the com pany pur - chased pri vately held Schnei der Cheese Inc. of Wis con sin to com pletment its U.S. Cheese busi ness (strong in cheese and chees sticks), which had sales of $40 mil lion, in clud ing branded and pri vate la bel. To day, some 95.3% of Saputo’s con soli dated reve nues are in dairy prod - ucts, while 4.7% de rives from gro cery items, pro duced in its Bak ery Di vi sion.
Prod ucts:
Cheese, cheese sticks, snack cakes, tarts, cereal bars. SalesCon tacts: N/A (U.S. Headquarters: 25 Tri-State International Office Centre, Suite 250, Lincolnshire, IL 60069. Tel:
847-267-1100, fax: 847-267-1110.
SARA LEE CORP.
3500 La cey Rd., Down ers Grove, IL 60515- 5424 USA
Tel: (630-598-6000
Fax: N/A
URL: www.saralee.com
To tal Fis cal 2008 Sales Vol ume: $13.2 Bil lion +10.3% Per cent age of Sales in Ex clu sive Brands: N/A
Ex port Mar kets:
WorldwidePro file: Since Feb ru ary 2005, Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE: SLE), has un der gone a sig nifi - cant trans for ma tion, ex it ing its non- core busi nesses and thus dis pos ing of some 40% of its com pany. This dis rup tion has af fect sales, as op era tions in clud ing di - rect sell ing, the U.S. Re tail cof fee bus - ness, and in Europe both its branded ap parel and its nuts and snacks busi - ness, all have been sold. (Its head quar -
ters also no longer is in down town Chi cago.) In Food and Bev er ages (Re - tail), the com pany main tains its pack - aged meats and fresh- frozen bak ery op era tions. But in cof fee, the com pany sold its U.S. brands and pri vate la bel busi ness to Se ga fredo Zanetti Cof fee Group of It aly (also in the SOUR CE - BOOK). Cof fee, how ever, still re mains im por tant for the com pany, which since 1978 has owned Douwe Eg bert of The Neth er lands, the world’s third larg est cof fee roaster. Sara Lee also mar kets cof fee con cen trate ma chines, in clud ing Sen seo cof fee pods. Both Douwe Eg bert and Sen seo are sup pli ers to the pri vate la bel busi ness. Sara Lee owns Su pe - rior Cof fee (also listed in the SOUR CE - BOOK) in Bensen ville, IL, which han dles pri mar ily food-s ervice busi ness, mar ket ing Sara Lee bev er age brands, spices, etc. Sara Lee Cour taulds in the UK sells pri vate la bel cloth ing. Over all, Sara Lee is a branded busi ness ( Sara Lee bread is now a $1 billion brand. Re - cently, the com pany spun off its Hanes brand busi ness.