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Furthering its focus on food
operations, Lancaster Colony
Corp. said it has acquired the
principal assets of Marshall
Biscuit Co., Inc., a privately
owned producer and marketer of frozen rolls and biscuits
based in Saraland, Ala.
Food is playing a larger role
in driving repeat customer
visits for Target Corp., said
Gregg Steinhafel, company
president.
In what the company is describing as the first-of-its kind flour
milled from
locally grown
wheat, StoneBuhr has introduced allpurpose family
flour under the
Stone-Buhr
Washington
White brand.
Legislation recently introduced in the Senate and
House of Representatives has
pushed mandatory recall authority for the Food and Drug
Administration to the fore of
the national dialogue on food
safety.
The Center for Science in the
Public Interest filed a lawsuit
against Burger King Holdings
Corp., Miami, charging that
by using partially hydrogenated oil, the fast-food chain
is increasing customers' risk
of heart disease and death.

CSM n.v. reached agreement
with Neuhauser to sell the
frozen bread operations of
CSM's French subsidiary
Delices de la Tour, which is
located in Maubeuge, France.
Flowers Foods
announced
Jerry F. Hancock II was
promoted to
vice-president
of environmental and regulatory affairs.

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Donald W. Shields, director of
technical services for Cereal
Food Processors, Inc., Mission Woods,
Kas., has been
named to the
Shields
additional position of director of quality control.

Hancock

A record number of robotics
and vision systems will be
on display at the upcoming
International Baking Industry
Exposition, Oct. 7-10 in Orlando, Fla.

Kraft, Inc. and The Quaker
Oats Co. have signed a definitive agreement under which
Kraft will acquire the Anderson Clayton Foods Division
from Quaker Oats for $235
million in cash.
Daniel Amstutz, U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for international
affairs and commodity programs, announced May 28 his
resignation effective Aug. 1,
saying "it is time to leave."

CBC Restaurant Corp., which
owns and operates Corner
Bakery Café restaurants, is
partnering with The Rose
Group as a new franchise
partner. The Rose Group plans
to add 25 new Corner Bakery
Café restaurants in the Philadelphia and South New Jersey
area in coming years.
A study conducted by researchers at Wake Forest University
School of Medicine showed a
diet high in whole grain foods
is associated with a significantly lower risk of developing
cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke.

X 1987

Rick L. Schwein, right, chairman of the North American
Millers' Association, and John
Miller, left, NAMA vice-chairman, led a delegation that met
May 23 with Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, center.

the company's products from
that market.

Interstate Brands Corp. has
acquired Minonk Baking
Co., Inc., Minonk, Ill., and
merged it into its Purity Baking Co. subsidiary based at
Decatur, Ill.
Flowers Industries, Inc. will
cease production at its Amarillo, Texas, bread and roll
plant May 29 and withdraw

The board of
directors of the
American Bakers Association
on May 27
elected Paul C.
Abenante to a
one-year term
as president,
effective June 1.

Abenante

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Stockholders of Interstate
Bakeries Corp. approved a
plan of recapitalization and
agreement of merger with
the Schulze Bread Corp.,
R.L. Nafziger, president, announced.
An attendance of over 600 is
expected for the fifty-first annual convention of the Association of Operative Millers,
which starts in Minneapolis
June 2.
All striking telephone workers in the Kansas City area
have returned to their jobs,
ending interruptions to telephone communications that
had seriously disrupted business of mills.
The Kansas City Southern
Elevator of 1,500,000 bus capacity has been leased to the
Norris Grain Co. of Kansas
City, effective, June 1.
That "the flour milling industry has not evolved as high
a degree of concentration as
many other industries" is asserted by the Federal Trade
Commission in a report transmitted to Congress June 2 on
"Growth and Concentration in
the Flour Milling Industry."
Development of a new type of
scientific instrument capable
of measuring the percentage
moisture in almost any substance was announced by Dr.
Charles N. Kimball, vice-president of the C.J. Patterson Co.

J.R. Paterakis, left, H&S Bakery,
Inc., Baltimore, co-chairman of the
Young Baking Industry Executives
Committee, shares a moment with
Mark Rosenberg, center, Gemini
Bakery Equipment Co., and Leonard Amoroso Jr., Amoroso Baking
Co., both of Philadelphia.
Ted L. Longacre
has been named
eastern regional
sales manager
for ConAgra
Flour Milling
Co.

Longacre

Basin C. de Guerin tells a
great story in "The Bakers'
National Association Review"
in London of how white flour
from the Red Cross helped to
drive the Nazi invaders from
the Channel Isles.
Ground has been broken at
Springfield, Ill., for the construction of a new Pillsbury
bulk pre-mix plant to cost approximately $1,500,000, it was
announced by Paige Lehman,
vice-president of production,
Pillsbury Mills, Inc. MBN
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