Company Profile
Flowers Foods
Company Overview
Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO), with 2012 sales of $3.05 billion, is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers in the U.S. The company’s 45 highly efficient bakeries produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. About 77% of the U.S. population has access to the company’s fresh bakery foods through a network of independent distributors serving the East, South, and Southwest. Flowers’ frozen bakery items and snack cakes are delivered to customers’ warehouses nationwide.
Flowers' top brands include Nature's Own, Whitewheat, Wonder Bread, Cobblestone Mill, Tastykake, Mrs. Freshley's, European Bakers, BlueBird, and Mi Casa and regional brands that include Merita, Home Pride, Butternut, Country Kitchen, Barowsky's Organics, ButterKrust, Captain John Derst's, Evangeline Maid, Sunbeam, Bunny, Mary Jane, Aunt Hattie's, and Holsum, and Mary Jane & Friends. Visit our website for more information, www.flowersfoods.com.
Specialties
Bakery, DSD, Warehouse Delivery, Product Innovation, Technology
Company History
http://www.flowersfoods.com/FFC_CompanyInfo/HistoricalHighlights/index.cfm
Notable Products / Brands
Nature's Own, Whitewheat, Wonder Bread, Cobblestone Mill, Tastykake, Mrs. Freshley's, European Bakers, BlueBird, and Mi Casa
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Growing The Flowers Way!
From approximately 35% of the U.S. population served in 2004 with sales of $1.5 billion to 77% of the U.S. population served in 2013 with sales of $3.79 to $3.82 billion estimated.