As the new Hillshire Brands Co. completes its transition from Sara Lee Corp., some industry experts see the company as an inviting target for acquisition. Bloomberg notes that Alexia Howard, a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst in New York, said in a report that potential suitors for the company could include Hormel Foods Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc.
“This will be a transformational deal for whoever makes it,” Howard said in the report.