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Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-71797

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This post-effective amendment relates to the Registration Statement (No. 333-71797) of The Hillshire Brands Company, a Maryland corporation, formerly known as the Sara Lee Corporation (the “Company”), on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), registering 5,000,000 shares of Sara Lee Corporation common stock, par value $0.01 (including preferred stock purchase rights), and such additional and indeterminate number of shares of common stock as may have become issuable in accordance with the provisions of the Sara Lee Corporation 1998 Long-Term Incentive Stock Plan, the Sara Lee Corporation 1995 Long-Term Incentive Stock Plan, as amended, the Sara Lee Corporation 1995 Non-Employee Director Stock Plan, as amended, and the Sara Lee Corporation 1989 Incentive Stock Plan, as amended, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 4, 1999.

On July 1, 2014, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Tyson Foods, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Tyson”), and HMB Holdings, Inc., a Maryland corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Tyson (“Offeror”), pursuant to which Tyson would acquire the Company. On August 28, 2014, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, after completion of a tender offer by Offeror for the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), at a price of $63.00 per Share, in cash, without interest (the “Offer Price”), subject to any withholding of taxes required by applicable law, Offeror merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Tyson (the “Merger”). The Merger became effective on August 28, 2014 following the filing of the Articles of Merger with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of the State of Maryland (the “Effective Time”). At the Effective Time, among other things, each Share (other than any Shares held by the Company, Tyson, any of Tyson’s subsidiaries (including Offeror) or any subsidiary of the Company) was converted into the right to receive the Offer Price. As a result of the consummation of the Merger, the Company hereby terminates the offering of the Company’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.

In accordance with the undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement is being filed to remove from registration, as of the effectiveness of this post-effective amendment, any and all securities of the Company that are registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the effectiveness of this post-effective amendment, and to terminate the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, City of Chicago, State of Illinois, on this 2nd day of September, 2014.


The Hillshire Brands Company

By:		/s/ Alison M. Rhoten
		Alison M. Rhoten Assistant General Counsel, Corporate & Securities

Note: Pursuant to Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement.


Maryland		36-2089049
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