Articles Tagged with ''Flowers Foods''

Mrs. Freshley's new Cake Crisps introduce a crisp that delivers all the sweetness of cake and the crunch of a chip.

Flowers Foods has promoted JT Rieck to vice president of investor relations and financial analysis with responsibility for investor messaging, strategic research, and financial modeling.

Flowers Foods has announced recent promotions in its Corporate Relations department.

Michael Beaty will retire this spring, and Robert L. Benton Jr. has been named senior vice president and chief manufacturing officer.

Bradley Alexander, Keith Wheeler and Thomas Wilson assume new roles as part of the company’s management succession plan.

Grupo Bimbo and Flowers Foods are said to be among the early bidders for Canada Bread, the bakery business that’s majority-owned by Canadian food group Maple Leaf Foods.

Flowers Foods announces Flowers Baking Co., of Henderson LLC, Henderson, Nev., will begin production late this year. The company will produce Nature’s Own bread for markets in southern Nevada and parts of California.

Flowers Foods Inc., Thomasville, Ga., completes the acquisition of Hostess Brands’ bread assets, including 20 bakeries; the Wonder, Merita, Home Pride, Butternut and Nature’s Pride brands; and 36 depots from Old HB Inc. (formerly Hostess Brands). The adjusted purchase price was $355 million.

Flowers Foods Inc., Thomasville, Ga., is set to buy Wonder Bread and some other brands owned by Hostess Brands Inc. for $360 million, according to Reuters.

Flowers Foods has acquired the perpetual, exclusive and royalty-free licenses to the Sara Lee and Earthgrains brands for sliced breads, buns and rolls in California from BBU Inc.