Hanes

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Hanesbrands traces its founding back to 1901, but its life as a public company only began in 2006 when Hanes Brands was spun off from Sara Lee Corporation (which subsequently changed its name to Hillshire Brands and is now part of Tyson Foods). John Wesley Hanes (one of Winston-Salem's wealthiest and most influential business men) During the 1970s and 1980s, their women's hosiery tagline was "Gentlemen Prefer Hanes". In the early 1990s, the slogan was turned around as "The lady prefers Hanes"