Milling & Baking News - October 27, 2015 - 15

Three promoted at Miller Milling,
forming new senior leadership team
BLOOMINGTON, MINN. - Jeff
Thomas, David Hegewald and Brian
Harrington have been named to new
executive positions at Miller Milling
Co., Bloomington, it was announced by
Kazuyoshi (Kaz) Watanabe, president.
Mr. Thomas has been named vicepresident of operations. He most recently was manager of the company's
Saginaw, Texas, flour mill. Mr. Thomas
joined Miller Milling in connection
with the company's
acquisition of the
Saginaw mill in 2014.
Before that he was with
ConAgra Foods for 20 years
in milling operations, with
assignments in Sherman, Texas; Oakland, Calif.; Macon, Ga.; Denver; and Alton, Ill. He was promoted
to plant manager in Saginaw in 2010.
Mr. Hegewald has been named
vice-president of administration. Most
recently he was director of risk management. Earlier he was with Deloitte
& Touche L.L.P. in Minneapolis for
22 years.
Mr. Harrington will be vice-president of sales and procurement. He
was director of national accounts.
Before joining Miller Milling in 2014,
Mr. Harrington spent 17 years with
Cargill, most recently as a national account sales manager in flour milling.
The group replaces three longtime
Miller Milling executives who are leaving the company - Randy Marten,
vice-president, sales and commodities;

Joe Beverly, Flowers
board member, to
retire in May 2016
THOMASVILLE, GA. - Joe Beverly,
a director of Flowers Foods and its
predecessor company, Flowers Industries, since 1996, will retire from the
company's board of directors on May
26, 2016. Mr. Beverly, 74, is chairman
emeritus of Commercial Bank and
retired vice-chairman of the board of
directors of Synovus Financial Corp.
"Flowers has been fortunate to have
Joe Beverly as a board member for almost 20 years," said George E. Deese,
chairman of the board at Flowers Foods.
"Joe's financial expertise, deep intellect
and business acumen have benefited
our company and the board of directors." MBN
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Andrew Bauer, vice-president and
chief financial officer; and Kevin Ball,
vice-president of operations. Mr. Marten and Mr. Bauer were with Miller
Milling 19 and 20 years, respectively.
Mr. Ball joined the company when it
was established by John Miller in 1985.

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Miller Milling has been owned by
Nisshin Seifun Group since 2012. The
company expanded in 2014 with the
acquisition of flour mills in Los Angeles and Oakland; Saginaw; and New
Prague, Minn. The company also operates its legacy flour mills in Fresno,
Calif., and Winchester, Va. Miller Milling has 107,600 cwts of combined flour
milling and durum milling daily production capacity. MBN

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