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Chester Borck dies at 95; was
founder of Country Home Bakers
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. - Chester
E. Borck, founder of Country Home
Bakers, a pioneer in the frozen baked
foods business, died Oct. 18 in South
Carolina. He was 95.
A native of Bridgeport, Conn., Mr.
Borck as a boy worked at his family's
wholesale baking business, which
served the New England market.
After graduating with an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University in 1935 and a master's degree
in business administration from Babson University in 1936, Mr. Borck extended his studies by attending the
Dunwoody Institute and the American Institute of Baking. He began his
career at the family business, Borck
and Stevens Bakery, a major regional
baking company. He later became
president of the business.
Mr. Borck is credited with inventing

the first automated English muffin slicer and grill as well as equipment automating production of Danish pastries.
He founded Country Home in the
late 1950s, a business based on fastfreeze technology he helped develop.
This technology and the Country
Home business were important in the
creation and growth of in-store supermarket bakeries.
Country Home grew rapidly under
Mr. Borck's leadership. Its subsidiary
businesses were Readi-Bake, Inc. in
Grand Rapids, Mich.; Readi-Bake,
Ltd., in Milton Keynes, England; Jessie Lord, Inc., in Torrance Calif.; and
Sanders in Detroit. He remained active
in the business until the mid-1990s.
Mr. Borck was the recipient of the
Ernst and Young award as a 1998 Master Entrepreneur of the Year.
Country Home was acquired in

Three promoted at Alpha Baking
CHICAGO - Growth in the frozen
foods and retail business has led to
the promotion of three
individuals to new vicepresident roles at Alpha
Baking Co., Inc.
Joe Nemethy, director
of retail sales, has been
promoted to vice-president of sales for the retail Nemethy
division. Mr. Nemethy
has been with Alpha
Baking for 13 years.
Tim J. Gill, director
of sales for the frozen
food service division,
will assume the position of vice-president of Gill
sales for the frozen food
service division. Mr. Gill has worked

with Alpha Baking for 11 years.
Gary D. Narcisi, vice-president of
sales, has been promoted to group
vice-president of the
frozen food service and
retail divisions. Mr. Narcisi has been with Alpha
Baking for 19 years.
According to Alpha
Baking, the frozen food
service business has been Narcisi
a primary focus in recent
years. Earlier this year, the company -
along with Frozen Assets Cold Storage
- built a freezer at its Chicago location.
"We have the infrastructure in place,
the business in place, and now we have
the right people in position to continue
to grow the business," Michael Marcucci, chief executive officer at Alpha

Gorman, co-founder of Gorman
Publishing Co., dies at 88
CHICAGO - John E. Gorman, who
along with his brother Bill Gorman
co-founded Gorman Publishing Co.,
died Oct. 8. He was 88 years old.
Founded in 1964, Gorman Publishing was a publisher of food trade magazines, including Prepared Foods, Grocery
Marketing, Bakery Production and Marketing and Dairy Foods. The company
was sold in December 1991 to Chicagobased Delta Communications Inc.
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Survivors include his wife, Patricia
Gorman; a son, Michael; three daughters, Christine Gorman, Maryl Leonard and Carolyn (Stephen) Dress; and
six grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Sedgebrook Benevolent Care Fund, 800
Audubon Way, Lincolnshire, IL 60069,
or Christian Brothers of the Midwest,
c/o Bro. Tom, 7650 South County Line
Road, Burr Ridge, IL 60527. MBN

December 2003 by J&J Snack Foods,
Inc., Pennsauken, N.J. The company
had filed for bankruptcy protection
in February 2003. Included in the J&J
transaction were the Metropolitan
Parkway plant in Atlanta and its Shelton, Conn., facility. The company's other assets had been sold earlier in 2003.
Mr. Borck was predeceased by his
wife of 52 years, Jessie Lord Borck; his
son, Chester E. (Jay) Borck Jr., and his
son James L. Borck.
He is survived by his wife, Abbie,
of North Palm Beach, Fla.; a daughter,
Judith Borck of Palos Verdes Estates,
Calif.; three grandchildren, nine great
grandchildren, three step-children and
five step-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may
be made to the Borck Family Foundation to benefit its annual Greater
Bridgeport Junior Golf Tournament
and its college scholarship program,
c/o Redgate-Hennessy Funeral Directors, 4 Gorham Place, Trumbull,
Conn. 06611. MBN
Baking, said in announcing the promotions. "It's a good fit all around."
Alpha Baking, which has four baking plants, more than 1,400 employees
and over 300 delivery trucks, distributes fresh bread in the upper Midwest
and frozen bread across the rest of the
country. The company's products are
sold to broadline distributors, national
restaurant chains, quick-service restaurants, schools, institutions, major
league sports franchises, warehouse
club stores, national grocery chains
and independent grocery stores. The
company's brands include S. Rosens,
Mary Ann, Natural Ovens, Kreamo
and Golden Hearth. MBN

Brixey takes position
at Weston's Bakeries
HORSHAM, PA. - Rowdy
Brixey has accepted the position
of vice-president in the operations group at Weston's Bakeries,
Horsham, Pa.
Mr. Brixey spent more than 25
years at Interstate Bakeries Corp.,
Kansas City. His last position at
I.B.C. was vice-president of engineering. Most recently he worked
for Alpha Baking Co., Chicago.
Mr. Brixey started at Weston's corporate office in Horsham on Oct.
13 and reports to Dan Babin, vicepresident of manufacturing. MBN

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