Type: Public
On the web: http://www.flowersfoods.com
Employees: 8,800
Employee growth: 0.0%

Look for Flowers Foods in your breadbox, not your garden. The company is one of the largest wholesale bakeries in the US. Flowers Foods produces, markets, and distributes fresh breads, buns, rolls, corn and flour tortillas, and sweet bakery goodies to retail food and foodservice customers in the western, southern, and northeastern US. The company's brand names include BlueBird, Cobblestone Mill, and Nature's Own. Flowers Foods makes snack cakes, pastries, donuts, and frozen bread products for retail, vending, and co-pack customers nationwide. It also rolls out hamburger buns for national fast-food chains. Building on its brand portfolio, Flowers Foods acquired Tastykake pastry maker Tasty Baking in mid-2011.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $2,573.8M
One year growth: (1.0%)
Net income: $137.0M
Income growth: 5.2%

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: George E. Deese
President: Allen L. Shiver
EVP and COO: Gene D. Lord

Competitors:
Grupo Bimbo
Campbell Soup
Hostess Brands

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