Jimmy Dean (brand)
Jimmy Dean Foods is a food company that was founded in 1969 by the late country singer and actor Jimmy Dean who died in the summer of 2010. It was purchased by Consolidated Foods, later renamed Sara Lee Corporation.
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[edit] History
Dean founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage brand of breakfast sausage, which was originally called "Pure Pork Sausage." Despite ups and downs (some revolving around his problems with his partner-brother Don Dean), the Jimmy Dean Sausage company did well, in part due to Dean's own extemporized, good-humored commercials.
Dean remained involved in running the company after the takeover, though they eventually began phasing him out of any management duties, a traumatic period that took a toll on his health. By 2004, he was no longer acting as spokesman, and enjoyed his retirement, living with second wife Donna Meade Dean, whom he married in 1991. Jimmy Dean died June 13, 2010.
In 2007, the company received brief national attention after a caller's complaint was posted on the Internet over the reduction in package size of the company's 1 pound sausage roll to 12 ounces, but without a reduction in the price charged.[1]
[edit] Products
- Tastefuls! (discontinued; made in late 1990s to compete with Oscar Mayer Lunchables)
- Fresh sausage
- Sausage links and patties
- Fresh bacon
- Full cooked bacon, sausage links and sausage patties
- Breakfast bowls
- Sandwiches
- Jimmy Dean Skillets
- Pancake and sausage on a stick
- Omelets
- Heat 'N Serve microwavable sausage
- Jimmy D's Breakfasts
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