Jimmy Dean Foods is a food company that was founded in 1969 by country singer and actor Jimmy Dean. It was purchased by Sara Lee, which then divested as part of a unit known as Hillshire Brands, which was later purchased by Tyson Foods.
Dean founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage brand of breakfast sausage, which was originally called "Pure Pork Sausage." The Jimmy Dean Sausage company did well, in part due to Dean's own extemporized, good-humored commercials.[1]
Dean sold the company to the Sara Lee Corporation in 1984 for $80 million.[2] He remained involved as the company spokesman after the takeover, though Sara Lee, under the leadership of John Bryan, immediately began phasing him out of management duties. By 2002, he was no longer acting as spokesman. In 2018, after Bryan's death, the company resumed an advertising campaign featuring Dean,[3] who had died in 2010.[4]
Full cooked bacon, sausage links, and sausage patties
Breakfast bowls
Sandwiches
Jimmy Dean Skillets
Pancake and sausage on a stick
Omelettes
Heat 'N Serve microwavable sausage
Jimmy D's Breakfast
Jimmy Dean Delights (sandwiches, bowls, and sausage)
Jimmy Dean Biscuit Roll-Ups
References
^Calhoun, Fryar (August 1983). "Hi! I'm Jimmy Dean and I'd like you to try my pure pork sausage". Texas Monthly. Vol. 11, no. 8. Emmis Communications. pp. 121–123 198–200, 206. ISSN 0148-7736.
^Tomkies, Kelly Kagamas (2010). Food Services. Infobase Publishing. p. 22. ISBN978-1-4381-3205-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^. iSpot.tv. Archived from the original on April 7, 2018.
^Potter, Dena (June 13, 2010). . Huffington Post. Archived from the original on June 14, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
External links
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