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Sara Lee Corporation 41Sara Lee Corporation 41
AN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
We are building an organizational
structure that will support our desire
to improve the quality and speed of
marketplace innovation. Our goal is to
create independent country operations
that work around a centralized and sup-
portive core. We are eliminating excess
layers in our organizational structure
and encouraging employees at every
level to think creatively, find solutions
and openly share ideas with senior
management. In order to accelerate our
innovation efforts, we’ve launched a
program called Energy in Motion. This
program takes teams of our highest
potential employees and empowers
them to reignite our innovation pipeline
as we set ourselves up for success as
a focused pure play coffee & tea com-
pany. This is proving to be a win-win,
as the company is benefiting from a
wealth of new and exciting initiatives
while employees are more motivated
than ever. We have embraced their
ideas and we are in the process of
bringing the ideas to fruition for fiscal
2013. We have adjusted our organi-
zation to harness the full innovation
power of our people on an ongoing
basis. As a nimble pure play company,
we will bring new ideas to the market
quickly and capitalize on fast moving
consumer trends.