<P> Cracker Barrel is on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Texas Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and is a corporate sponsor of the NAACP Leadership 500 Summit . The company has been praised for its gender diversity, particularly on its board of directors, which includes three women out of eleven total board members . Its chief executive officer (CEO), Sandra Cochran, is the second woman in Tennessee to hold that office in a publicly traded company . </P> <P> In November 2012, Cracker Barrel licensed its name to Smithfield Foods' John Morrell Division in a deal to create a line of meat products to be sold in supermarkets and through other retail channels . </P> <P> In response, Kraft Foods filed a trademark - infringement lawsuit in February 2013 . Kraft has sold cheese in retail stores under their Cracker Barrel brand since 1954 . The corporation said that Cracker Barrel stores have not made significant sales of retail food products beyond their restaurant menu, and asked that the Smithfield Foods deal be nullified by the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois . </P>

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