0001209191-14-001825.txt : 20140106 0001209191-14-001825.hdr.sgml : 20140106 20140106162943 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-14-001825 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20140102 FILED AS OF DATE: 20140106 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140106 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Hillshire Brands Co CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000023666 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: FOOD & KINDRED PRODUCTS [2000] IRS NUMBER: 362089049 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 400 SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60607 BUSINESS PHONE: 3126146000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 400 SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60607 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Sara Lee Corp DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20061129 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LEE SARA CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CONSOLIDATED FOODS CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19850402 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BROTHERS ELLEN L CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001231087 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-03344 FILM NUMBER: 14510237 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O MATTEL INC STREET 2: 333 CONTINENTAL BLVD CITY: EL SEGUNDO STATE: CA ZIP: 90245 4 1 doc4.xml FORM 4 SUBMISSION X0306 4 2014-01-02 0 0000023666 Hillshire Brands Co HSH 0001231087 BROTHERS ELLEN L C/O THE HILLSHIRE BRANDS COMPANY 400 SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET CHICAGO IL 60607 1 0 0 0 Common Stock 2014-01-02 4 A 0 3594 33.38 A 9803 D Consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) granted for serving on the board of directors during calendar year 2014. The RSUs will vest on January 2, 2015 and will be converted into shares of Hillshire Brands common stock on a one-for-one basis 30 days after the reporting person ceases to be a director of Hillshire Brands or on such date elected by the reporting person pursuant to the deferral program set forth in Schedule B of The Hillshire Brands Company Compensation Policy for Non-Employee Directors. Includes 50 RSUs acquired in the company's dividend reinvestment plan with accrued dividend equivalents. /s/ Alison M. Rhoten for Ellen L. Brothers pursuant to power of attorney filed herewith. 2014-01-06 EX-24.4_501064 2 poa.txt POA DOCUMENT LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS The undersigned, Ellen L. Brothers, constitutes and appoints Kent B. Magill, Alison M. Rhoten and Mary D. Stoxstell, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, to take the following actions with respect to the undersigned's ownership of securities of The Hillshire Brands Company, a Maryland corporation (the "Company"): (i) prepare, execute, deliver and file with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), any national securities exchange and the Company: (a) statements of beneficial ownership on Forms 3, 4, and 5 that are required or permitted to be filed pursuant to Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and rules promulgated thereunder; (b) any Form 144 Notice of Proposed Sale of Securities (including any amendments thereto) required to be filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Rule 144 promulgated thereunder; and (c) any and all other documents, including without limitation a Form ID, necessary or desirable to facilitate the filing by the undersigned of a Form 144 and forms under Section 16 of the Exchange Act; (ii) seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's securities from any third party, including brokers and employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to said attorney-in-fact and agent, and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and (iii) perform any and all other acts which, in the discretion of said attorney-in-fact and agent, are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the undersigned in connection with the foregoing, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each act requisite and necessary to be done under Section 16 of the Exchange Act and Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. A copy of this power of attorney shall be filed with the SEC and with any applicable stock exchange. The authorization set forth above shall continue in full force and effect until the undersigned revokes such authorization by written instructions to the attorney-in-fact and agent. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact and agent, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act or Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act. Dated: December 4, 2013 /s/ Ellen L. Brothers Signature of Reporting Person