date:May 26, 2014
nservative, focused on returning cash to shareholders. Hillshire is aggressive, focused on growth.
Kraft started the hot dog season with some unpleasant headlines, a recall of 96,000 pounds of wieners. It wasn't really a health scare, more a case of mislabeling cheese dogs as meat ones, but it is emblematic of a key difference between the two companies.
Kraft is primarily a dairy company, with nine different cheese brands including Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Breakstone cottage cheese, Polly-O