Hillshire Brands Company's The Bistro Gourmet Bakery launched an expanded Bistro Collection line of gourmet cakes, each hand-crafted and individually portioned for operational ease. The ten-product thaw-and-serve gourmet cake collection includes five new cakes and will be supported by a marketing campaign, including an easily accessible mobile application. The new flavors, developed based on consumer preferences, include: Chocolate Raspberry Duet Cake; Harvest Caramel Apple Cake; Lemon Mousse Melody Cake; Roasted Pistachio Mascarpone Cake and Chocolate Peanut Butter Thunder(R) Cake made with Reese's(R) Peanut Butter Cups. The Bistro Collection Gourmet Cakes also include: Chocolate Truffle Mousse Cake; Flourless Chocolate Indulgence Cake; Tiramisu Cake; World's Greatest Carrot Cake and World's Greatest Chocolate Cake. In addition to gourmet cakes, the Bistro Gourmet Bakery line of products includes dessert bars and brownies, individual desserts, cheesecakes and pies.

Hillshire Brands Company Presents at Goldman Sachs Consumer Products Symposium, May-14-2013 02:20 PM. Venue: New York, New York, United States.

The Hillshire Brands Company announced that David W. Stahl, 48, will become chief information officer, effective May 28, 2013. Stahl will oversee all IT strategy and planning activities and will provide executive leadership and direction for IT. He will report to Maria Henry, chief financial officer. Most recently, Stahl was vice president, information technology at Tellabs where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's global IT operations. He led an IT transformation program which resulted in improved service levels, lower costs, and higher operational performance of the IT function. During his tenure at Tellabs he held positions of increasing responsibility from director, global quality assurance to vice president, corporate quality and customer satisfaction.