Flowers Foods, Inc. Company Profile | FLO Company Information

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Flowers Foods was founded in 1919 whentwo brothers--Williamk Howard and Joseph Hampton Flowers--opened Flowerd Baking Company in Thomasville, Ga. Flowers' operating strategy from the beginningy was to invest in technologicallyadvanced bakeries, to offer excellenf baked foods products, to build stronhg brands, to provide extraordinary service to customers, to offer a workplace that fosters a team to develop innovations to improve the and to grow through strategic acquisitions. In the earlyh years, Flowers focused its attention on the freshbakeruy business, growing through strategic acquisitions of bakeriew in the Southeast.
In Flowers Baking Company went public, became Flowerzs Industries, and began trading over-the-counter Less than a year Flowers listed on the AmericanStock Exchange. In the company listed on the New York Stocj Exchange under thesymbol FLO. In the Flowers Industries transformed itself from a stron regional baker into a national baked foods companu with the acquisition of KeeblerFoodss Company, one of the largest cookie and cracker companiesz in the United States, and Mrs. the country's top-selling frozej pie brand. By 1999, Flowers Industrieds had becomea $4.
2 billion national baked foodz company with three business units--Flowers Bakeries, a super-regionalk fresh baked foods company; Mrs. Smith's Bakeries, a nationa l frozen baked foods company; and Keebledr Foods. ...