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Long Co. awards Butter-Krust, Schwebel
During The Long Co's recently held annual shareholders meeting, the Chicago-based
cooperative recognized Butter-Krust Baking Co. of Sunbury, PA, and Schwebel Baking
Co.'s plant at Hebron, OH, as winners in its yearlong competition among Holsum bread bakeries.
Butter-Krust Bakery took the Holsum Silver Cup for Best
Holsum white bread. The bakery can display the Silver Cup
logo on their Holsum packaging for the next 12 months.
Schwebel Baking's Hebron facility won the annual
Holsum Gold Cup for Best Holsum buns for the second
year in a row. If the Hebron plant "three-peats" next year,
the trophy will be retired and displayed at their bakery
permanently.
In a very close contest, The Long Co. also selected
Butter-Krust the Best in Bread winner for 2012-13. Butter-Krust is part of the Bimbo
Bakeries USA, headquartered in Horsham, PA.

People
AACCI International awarded its 2013
William F. Geddes Memorial award to
Steven C. Nelson, former president of
the association. The association's Milling
and Baking Division also made a surprise award for leadership service and
contributions to the division. This year, it
named Laurie Gorton, executive editor
of Baking & Snack, as the recipient of the
Myron D. (Mike) Baustian Award.
Kerwin Brown, CAE, president and
CEO, BEMA,
Overland Park,
KS, was named the
2013 Distinguished
Association
Executive by the
Kansas City chapter
of the Society for
Association Executives.

Together, this team provides more than
130 years of combined experience in design, manufacturing and implementation
of baking equipment and systems. The
management team will continue providing leadership and vision for the future
growth of Capway and meeting the everchanging needs of the baking industry.
Michael Maurine joined The Long Co.,
Chicago, as manager of bakery sales and
purchasing.
Land O'Lakes, Inc., Omaha, NE, hired
Anderson Partners to help with its global
business-to-business marketing communications efforts.

Aryzta AG, Zurich, Switzerland,
acquired Pita Pan Old World
Bakery, a Chicago Heights, IL,
maker of flatbreads and pizza
crusts for foodservice and wholesale bakery customers.
Torrance, CA-based King's
Hawaiian plans to triple the size of
its Oakwood, GA, operation. The
expansion will double that facility's production capacity and add
a neighboring, 120,000-sq-ft plant.
By the end of 2014, its investment
will exceed $100 million in Georgia
since 2011.
Sewell, NJ-based K-Tron, a manufacturer of feeding, dosing and
pneumatic conveying equipment,
will operate under the brand name
Coperion K-Tron. Coperion was
acquired by US-based Hillenbrand,
Inc. in 2012. K-Tron has been
a part of Hillenbrand's Process
Equipment Group since 2010.
Mayer Bros. Apple Products, Inc.,
West Seneca, NY, acquired Tastee
Apple, Inc. apple fiber business.
Inventure Foods, Phoenix, will
invest $3 million in its Bluffton, IN,
salted snack facility, making room
for an additional food extruder
onsite. The expansion will be completed in second quarter of 2014.

James B. Leighton was named chief
operating officer of Boulder Brands, Inc.,
Boulder, CO.
Capway Systems Inc., York PA, has
announced a new management team:
Keith Shoff, president and CEO;
Rod Snyder, vice-president; and Bob
Harrington, vice-president, sales.
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(From left) Bob Harrington, vice-president, sales; Rod Snyder, vice-president; Keith Shoff, president
and CEO, Capway Systems

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