Milling & Baking News - January 7, 2014 - 46

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 2003
Following a major review by
Deloitte Consulting, International Multifoods Corp. will
undergo a significant restructuring, said Gary E. Costley,
chairman and chief executive
officer.
John H. Miller
has joined The
Scoular Co.
as managing
director, emerging markets.
Miller

Fortified breakfast cereal may be a far better
source of vitamin E than encapsulated supplements, according to data published in
the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Bake-Line Group L.L.C., one
the nation's largest suppliers of private label cookies,
crackers, ice cream cones and
organic salty snacks, along
with affiliates Atlantic Baking Group, Inc.; Bake-Line
Holdings, L.L.C; and J.A.
Real Properties, L.L.C., filed
for Chapter 7 voluntary bankruptcy liquidation on Jan. 12.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's announcement
on Jan. 13 that China had
purchased 1.04 million tonnes
of U.S. wheat appeared to
confirm widely circulating
speculation regarding China's
expanding grain import
needs.
Looking to take the low-carbohydrate diet to yet another level,
Dakota Growers Pasta Co. has
launched a new line of low-digestible carbohydrate pasta under the brand name Dreamfields.

In perhaps the most direct connection made yet between a
grain-based foods company's
worsening financial results and
carbohydrate-controlled dieting, American Italian Pasta Co.
has projected a first-quarter
sales decline of 5% from the
same period a year earlier.
Representatives of the North
American Millers' Association
recently conducted a trip to
Ethiopia, marking the first such
trip for some of the industry's
top executives. The group was
led by John Gillcrist, NAMA
chairman and president of
Bartlett Milling Co., and Guy
Shoemaker, NAMA vice-chairman and president of Horizon
Milling L.L.C.

 1983
The Occupational Safety and
Health Administration has published a comprehensive proposal to establish specific safety
standards for grain elevators
and for grain processing facilities such as wheat, corn and
soybean milling operations.
La Petite Boulangerie, the California-based retail bakery chain
of PepsiCo, Inc., is beginning a
major expansion of its operations
that will involve both companyowned and franchise stores.

James J. Feeney, vice-president
and general manager of the
company's Sperry Division.

described in some quarters as
of "fantastic" and "stupendous" proportions.

David W. Gibson, vice-president of Wolcott
& Lincoln, Inc.,
has been elected
to a one-year
Gibson
term as chairman of the Kansas City Board of Trade.

Lieutenant Webster M. Bull,
29 years old, son of Daniel F.
Bull, president of Cream of
Wheat Corp., was reported
missing in action Jan. 6 in a
telegram from the War Department.

Vie de France Corp., the
wholesale/retail baking operation 65% owned by Grands
Moulins de Paris, the largest flour miller in France,
has filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission
for an initial public offering
of 1,960,000 common shares
priced at $13 to $16 per share.
Amos R. McMullian was
elected vice-chairman of the
board and chairman of the
executive committee of Flowers Industries, Inc., at the company's quarterly meeting of
the board of directors Jan. 13.
Frederick E. Cooper succeeds
Mr. McMullian as president
of the Thomasville, Ga.-based
company.
General Foods Corp. and the
Ronzoni Corp. announced Jan.
10 that they have reached an
agreement in principle for the
acquisition by General Foods
of all the stock of Ronzoni, one
of the nation's largest manufacturers of pasta products.

General Mills, Inc. will close
its flour mill in South Chicago
on March 1 as part of a multimillion dollar modernization
and reorganization of its packaged food plant on the same
site, it was announced by
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M. Lee Marshall, chairman
of the board of
the Continental
Baking Co., has
resumed active
duty with the
War Food Administration as
director of food Marshall
distribution.

1943

Philip R.
O'Brien has
assumed the
presidency of
the Chicago
Board of Trade
for the fourth
O'Brien
successive
year, breaking
a precedent of that exchange.
He was unopposed at the annual election.

The most vital meeting yet
held by the War Food Administration Milling Industry
Advisory Committee is scheduled to open in Washington
on Jan. 13. The committee will
consider production problems
of milling in light of recent
expansion in government requirements of flour, which are

The effective date of enrichment of bakery products
other than white bread has
been postponed from Jan.
16 until May 1, 1944, under
Amendment No. 6 to Food
Distribution Order No. 1, the
bakery products order, it was
announced by the War Food
Administration. MBN

Statistics compiled by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
show that in 1983, for the first
time in more than 20 years,
there were no fatalities from
grain elevator explosions.
Virgil Del Ghingaro has been
named president of Brolite
Products Inc., Chicago, recently purchased by a group
of private investors from The
Pillsbury Co., Minneapolis.

Success in providing tremendous quantities of flour for relief
in Europe is of deep concern to
military authorities. The subjugated areas of the continent
are being influenced by the
relief activities of the Allies,
and military leaders believe
that adequate provisioning of
flour will help to defeat the Nazi
invaders. Besides the supplies
moving to the Mediterranean
for relief, flour is going from the
United States for the assistance
of Russia. In producing flour as
never before, mills of the United
States are helping to attain victories in the war.
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