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Mega milling merger proposed
In potentially the largest merger in flour
milling history, ConAgra Foods, Inc.,
Cargill and CHS Inc. agreed to combine
their North American flour milling businesses to form a new company to be named
Ardent Mills. The combined company will
operate 44 flour mills, three bakery mix
facilities and a specialty bakery in the US,
Canada and Puerto Rico. Combined total

daily wheat and durum flour capacity will
be 576,100 cwts.
The new business will operate as an
independent joint venture of Omaha,
NE-based
ConAgra;
Minneapolisbased Cargill and St. Paul, MN-based
CHS.  ConAgra and Cargill each will own
a 44% stake in Ardent Mills with CHS
owning a 12% interest.

ACE Bakery opens US plant
ACE Bakery, LLC opened a 60,000-sq-ft
bakery in Gaffney, SC, that will allow the
company to continue to supply artisan
baked breads and rolls to retail and foodservice channels throughout the nation,
with a focus on the East Coast. The company also operates a plant in Toronto.
At full capacity, the bakery will be able
to make 32 million baguettes a year. With
future expansion in mind, ACE Bakery
bought 10 acres of land surrounding the
bakery, and the current building has 10,000
sq ft of unused space.

“Thanks to the incredible support of
our US foodservice and retail clients,
demand for ACE Bakery’s bread has
continued to grow at a remarkable rate
across the country,” said Lee Andrews,
president of ACE Bakery. “We can now
produce a wide variety of high-quality
artisan breads closer to our American
customers, improving our distribution
and ability to service bread lovers across
the US.”
ACE Bakery is a subsidiary of George
Weston Ltd., Toronto.

‘Hire Our Heroes’ Today

Federal tax credit
for hiring veterans
unemployed at
least four weeks.

A federal jury has ruled in favor of
St. Louis-based Ralcorp Holdings
and its Medallion Foods subsidiary
in a patent infringement suit related
to bowl-shaped tortilla chips. Plano,
TX-based Frito-Lay, a subsidiary
of PepsiCo, Inc., sued Ralcorp and
Medallion Foods in 2012 claiming
Ralcorp’s Bowlz corn chips were too
similar to Frito-Lay’s Tostitos
Scoops! Chips.
Phoenix-based Cafe Valley, Inc.
will build a bakery in Indiana. The
croissant and sweet goods producer
noted the facility is expected to open
in 2014.
In an effort to consolidate production and control costs, Vie de France
Yamazaki, Inc., Vienna, VA, plans to
cease production at its frozen bread
plant in Bensenville, IL.
US Justice Department released a
76-count indictment charging former officials with Peanut Corp. of
America, Lynchburg, VA, related to
the 2008 recall of peanuts and peanut
ingredients. Executives are charged
with knowingly manufacturing contaminated peanut products, falsifying
records and obstruction of justice.

Federal tax credit
for hiring veterans
unemployed longer
than six months.
Federal tax credit
for hiring disabled
veterans unemployed
longer than
six months.

Federal tax
credit for hiring
veterans with
service-connected
disabilities.

RetroTax presentation at BEMA’s Winter Summit meeting.

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