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low-carbohydrate diet. We are
just following our customers."

Kraft Foods Inc., two months
into a $1.2 billion restructuring process, said March 26 it
will close company bakeries
in Niles, Ill., and Buena Park,
Calif., by December.

Monsanto Co. has signed
an agreement for the sale
of assets connected with its
European wheat and barley
business to RAGT Genetique,
based in Rodez, France.

Interstate Bakeries Corp. has
suspended the dividend it
pays on the company's common stock.

Janice C. Anderson has been
promoted to
the newly created position of
vice-president
of marketing at
Flowers Baker- Anderson
ies Group, part
of Flowers Foods, Inc.

Greencore Group P.L.C. has
sold Rathbones Bakeries Ltd.
to Finedon Mill Ltd. for €30
million.
Few Americans have wholeheartedly embraced lowcarbohydrate diets, according
to a new report issued by the
NPD Group.
Rising marketing opportunities in Europe and the
United Kingdom have led
Dawn Food Products, Inc., to
acquire a 43,000-square-foot
manufacturing facility in
Holland.
After years of development
and approximately $2 million
in investment, Earth Harvest
Mills, Harvey, N.D., will
begin shipping 10 different
blends of organic flour in 6
to 10 loads of flour a day by
mid-April.
"We are repositioning displays
and promoting products with
low carbohydrates," Scott
Schnuck, president and chief executive officer of Schnuck Markets, Inc., St. Louis, said at the
annual meeting of the American
Bakers Association. "We don't
have any history or research telling us what to do to handle the

Roger Deromedi, the chief
executive officer of Kraft
Foods Inc., hospitalized in
late March with an undiagnosed medical condition, has
left the hospital and is "at
home recovering nicely," Mr.
Deromedi's wife, Sandra, told
the Chicago Tribune.

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General Foods Corp. and
Continental Grain Co. on
April 9 announced they have
entered into a definitive
agreement for the acquisition by General Foods of the
western division of Oroweat
Foods Co., the Greenwich,
Conn.-based baking subsidiary of Continental Grain.
Radiation Technology Inc.,
Rockaway, N.J., a leading proponent of irradiation in food
processing operations, has
completed design of a highcapacity grain, flour and/or
produce irradiator, said Dr.
Martin A. Welt, president.

CPC International Inc. will
spend $300 million to completely rebuild its Argo, Ill.,
corn wet milling plant at an
accelerated rate over a period
of five years.
North American Systems,
manufacturer of Mr. Coffee
Coffeemakers, is promoting
what the company says will
be the first national brand of
pasta marketed in the United
States. The pasta line, produced by the Federici company in Italy, is being marketed
in the United States under the
d'Amelia label.
Robert M. Howard, International Multifoods Corp.,
Minneapolis, was elected
vice-chairman of the Millers'
National Federation at the
M.N.F.'s 82nd annual convention at the Hyatt Regency
Maui in Hawaii.
The Canadian Wheat Board
will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding in
1985. The board said the anniversary will "provide us
all with the opportunity to
reflect on the past and to contemplate the future."
The board of directors of Interstate Bakeries Corp. has
elected a new member and
directed management to pursue a $10 million modernization and expansion project
at its Cincinnati bread plant.
The I.B.C. directors voted to
expand board membership to
nine and elected Howard P.
Berkowitz to the new seat.
The Duke of Edinburgh, left,
recently visited the Leeds headquarters of Rose Forgrove Ltd.,
part of Baker Perkins Holdings

P.L.C., during a tour of several companies in the Yorkshire
town.

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Germany will lose control
of enormous quantities of
Balkan wheat and other
foodstuffs in the event the
new Russian invasion of the
Balkans is marked by great
successes.
Rumor of a recapitalization
for the Ward Baking Corp.
resulted in sharp upturns in
securities of the company on
the New York Stock Exchange.
Stockholders of the Burry
Biscuit Corp., at their meeting at Elizabeth, N.J., approved a recapitalization
plan to wipe out arrearages
on the 6% preferred stock.
Southwestern Trade Notes:
Elmo F. Merrill, vice-president and manager of the
Moore-Lowry Flour Mills co.,
Kansas City, left April 1 to
visit his son Fred who is in
training at Ellington Field,
near Houston, to become a
navigator in the Army Air
Corps.
While the wheat situation is
still being watched closely by
government officials, it does
not appear to be giving them
undue concern to the extent
that action may be taken to
stock open market absorption
of wheat flour for the feed
and industrial alcohol purposes during the remainder
of the current crop year.
Appointment of V.R. West as
director of public relations of
Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. was
announced by Philip W. Pillsbury, president.
The cover page of the current
issue of Milling in Great Britain is devoted to a page advertisement of Henry Simon,
Ltd., on mill construction, indicating that the thoughts of
the industry there are turning
at least in part toward postwar activities. MBN

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