Milling & Baking News - December 9, 2014 - 10

Business

Fire damages Canada Bread
baking plant in Ontario
HAMILTON, ONT. - A Canada
Bread plant was shut down on Nov. 24
after a fire, believed to be electrical in
nature, broke out. The fire caused approximately $500,000 in damages, but
no employees were injured.
Sylvia Sicuso, manager of communications for Canada Bread, said production lines were up and running the
morning of Nov. 26 and the bakery
was fully operational.
"While the production area of the
bakery was not impacted by the fire,

the facility underwent a full food safety and quality assurance inspection,"
Ms. Sicuso said. "Both the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) and
Hamilton Public Health inspected the
facility and are confident that all food
safety and quality assurance measures
have been taken."
Canada Bread, which was acquired
by Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de C.V. in February, opened the Hamilton plant in
2011. It was billed as Canada's largest commercial bakery, comprising a

Girl Scout Cookies enter digital age
NEW YORK - Girl Scouts of the USA on
Dec. 1 introduced Digital Cookie, which
is designed to provide lessons about online marketing, app use and e-commerce
to more than 1 million Girl Scouts.
Digital Cookie, a new addition to the
Girl Scout Cookie Program, will allow
customers to buy cookies through two
separate digital sales platforms depending on the market area. For one platform,
girls will invite customers via e-mail to
visit their personalized cookie web sites.
Customers may order from the web sites.
For the other platform, girls will use a
mobile app that allows for credit card
processing and direct shipping.

The majority of the 112 Girl Scout
councils nationwide are participating in
Digital Cookie during the 2014-15 cookie

385,000-square-foot facility to make a
variety of products, including white
and whole wheat bread, buns, English
muffins and tortillas.
The Hamilton bakery replaced three
of the company's five Ontario plants.
These older facilities averaged 70,000
square feet in size and more than 50
years in age.
The bakery represented an approximate $100 million investment by Canada Bread's previous owner, Maple
Leaf Foods, to support the company's
long-term growth as Canada's leading
bakery and increase manufacturing efficiencies through scale and technology. The plant employs 300 workers. MBN

season. Girl Scouts of the USA expects additional councils to join by the end of 2015.
"For almost a century, the Girl Scout
Cookie Program has been teaching girls
to be leaders in the world of business
and finance, and we intend to ensure that
legacy continues in the digital age," said
Anna Maria Chávez, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of the USA. "Digital
Cookie is a game-changer for Girl Scouts
and a quantum leap forward in the evolution of the cookie program, coupling
traditional sales activities with an on-line
sales experience that teaches skills like
on-line marketing and e-commerce, all in
a digital space that puts an emphasis on
learning, fun and safety." MBN

Sosland Publishing relocating company headquarters
KANSAS CITY - After more than
40 years in the Kansas City Board of
Trade building, the offices of Sosland
Publishing Co. are moving across the
street to the Colonnade building.
Since the company was established
in 1922, Sosland Publishing has officed in only three different buildings.
For 34 years the company was located at the Kansas City Board of Trade
building downtown, and in 1966
moved to the Country Club Plaza with
the opening of a new K.C.B.T. building
there. For a six-year period beginning
in 1984, the company's headquarters
were located in suburban Johnson
county in Kansas.
For most of its history, the company's presence in the Board of Trade was
considered crucial for the ingredient
markets coverage, which remains a
centerpiece of the publishing activities at the business but which has been
transformed by the adoption of electronic trading by futures exchanges.
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The move to the Colonnade building was precipitated by the 2012
CME Group purchase of the Kansas
City Board of Trade and its building.
The CME closed the trading floor
and put the building up for sale
shortly thereafter. The decision to
leave the Board of Trade was negotiated with the building's new owners, who are in the midst of a major
update of the 48-year-old building.
The Colonnade building first
opened in 2004 and features a
branch of the Kansas City Public Library. Mailing address for the new
offices will be Sosland Publishing
Co., 4801 Main Street, Suite 650,
Kansas City, MO 64112. The company's phone number will remain
(816) 756-1000. MBN
Ahead of a move scheduled for Dec. 8,
renovations were nearly complete Dec. 2
at the new offices of Sosland Publishing
Co. in Kansas City.
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