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of Eggo waffles, according to
The Kellogg Co., the company that makes Eggo waffles.

2009
The Kellogg Co. is laying off
workers at bakery plants in
Cary, N.C., and August, Ga.,
as part of a restructuring initiative designed to streamline
operations.
General Mills Inc. plans to
exit certain manufacturing
products in its U.S. retail segment, according to a Nov. 24
filing with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Allen L. Shiver, executive
vice-president
and chief
marketing officer of Flowers
Foods, Inc., has
been named
president of the
company, effec- Shiver
tive Jan. 1.
Mission Foods Corp. is expanding its tortilla plant
in New Brighton Minn., by
45,000 square feet, to 145,000
square feet.
Sara Lee Corp. on Nov. 19 said
it will halt operations at its
Greenville, S.C., frozen dough
manufacturing plant, a move
that will eliminate 200 jobs.

Pinnacle Foods Group L.L.C.
announced Nov. 19 it has
signed a definitive agreement
to acquire Birds Eye Foods,
Inc. in a transaction valued at
$1.3 billion.
DeBruce Grain Inc. said it
has nearly completed expansion of tis high-speed grain
handling operations in New
Carlisle, Ind.
With formation and funding
of a three-way joint venture
between Imperial Sugar Co.,
Cargill and Sugar Growers and
Refiners, Inc. completed, construction of a sugar refinery in
Gramercy, La., next to an existing Imperial plant, is expected
to begin immediately.
Bill Moreton, executive vicepresident and co-chief operating officer, will become
president and chief executive
officer of Panera bread Co.,
effective with the conclusion
of the company's next annual
meeting, scheduled for May
13, 2010. He will succeed
Ron Shaich, who will become
executive chairman of the
board.

The Ph. Orth Co. plans to
build a new bakery mix production plant and distribution center near Spartanburg,
S.C., it was announced by
Steven B. Smith, president.
An agreement calling for the
elimination of export subsidies
on farm products and for improvements in market access
opportunities was reached
Nov. 23 by the 14-member
Cairns group of "non-subsidizing" exporting countries.

Ambrosia Chocolate Co.
plans to construct a multimillion-dollar manufacturing
plant and headquarters on a
42-acre site in Milwaukee.
Frank J. Amoruso, former director of sales of Quality Bakers of America Cooperative,
Inc., died Oct. 25 in Long Island, N.Y. He was 69 years old.

1989

Private equity fund Brynwood Partners VI L.P. has
acquired Balance Bar Co.
from Northfield, Ill.-based
Kraft Foods, Inc.
National Starch has entered
an agreement to acquire
Penford's Australian specialty grain wet milling and
manufacturing facility based
in Lane Cove, northwest of
Sydney.
Flood damage at a bakery in
Atlanta coupled with significant equipment repairs that
have taken longer than expected have led to a shortage
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Dunkin' Donuts Inc., the
world's largest retail donut
shop chain, has agreed to a
$325 million acquisition bid
by Allied-Lyons P.L.C. of the
United Kingdom.
Daniel B. Dougherty has been
named vicepresident and
deputy division
head of the Cargill Flour Milling Division
of Cargill, Inc.,
Minneapolis.
Dougherty
Shato Holdings Ltd. of Canada has completed the acquisition of the Winchell's Donut
Houses business from WDH
Services, Inc., La Mirada, Calif., for $40 million in cash.

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General Mills, Inc. has introduced Gold Medal oat flour
blend in supermarkets in California, Hawaii and western Nevada to encourage more home
baking and help boost sales in
the family flour business.

Shawnee Milling Co. has
changed its family flour and
corn meal packages to carry
the package design adopted

earlier for its biscuit, muffin
and cornbread mixes.

1949
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.
will build a new soybean
processing plant at Mankato,
Minn., with a processing capacity of 3,000,000 bus a year,
it was announced by T.L.
Daniels, president.
The Atkinson Milling Co. in
Minneapolis has entered into
an exclusive arrangement
for the manufacture of Hovis
flour in the United States
with a newly formed subsidiary of Hovis Ltd., of London.
As members of the board of
governors and the executive
committee of the American
Bakers' Association assembled at the Ambassador
East hotel in Chicago Nov.
29, predictions were made
that the minimum aggregate
of the subscriptions for the
Bakers of America Program in
1950-51 will be attained. The
minimum is $2,400,000.
The engagement of Gordon
Herron Ritz, son of Charles
Ritz, president of the International Milling Co., and Mrs.
Ritz of Minneapolis, to Miss
Marot Anne Larsen was announced in New York. Miss
Larsen is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Larsen
of Green Farms, Conn., and
Nantucket, Mass. Her father
is president of Time, Inc.
Bruce O. Cottier, assistant
grain buyer of the Quaker
Oats Co., St.
Joseph, Mo.,
is being transferred to the
company's office in Los Angeles as head
grain buyer.
Cottier
Fire in the Pocatello Flour
Mills at Pocatello, Idaho, a
unit of the Colorado Milling & Elevator Co., Nov. 24
caused a complete loss of the
machinery and interior of the
mill. MBN
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