Milling & Baking News - June 7, 2016 - 54

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X 2006
A majority of consumers
(68%) said they "very likely"
would order whole wheat
bread at restaurants if it were
offered, according to a survey
performed by Opinion Dynamics Corp.

Phase II of the Whole Grain
Stamp program is officially under way, featuring an enhanced
stamp design that retains the
same black-and-gold graphics as
the original stamp, but with different text that aims to provide
more information to consumers,
including the number of grams
of whole grain ingredients in
each serving.
With more than 10,000 nonperishable grocery items and
a selection that is growing
every day, Internet retailer
Amazon.com once again is
attempting to sell food items
on-line.

cooking oil that is a blend of
corn and soy oil. The oil has
zero grams of trans fat per
serving.

Baking Co. by the board of
directors of the company, a
subsidiary of G. Heileman
Brewing Co.

Offering an update in an
ongoing investigation of accounting at the company,
American Italian Pasta Co.
said June 9 it expects to increase its cumulative charges
against earnings by between
$53 million and $65 million.

Bunge Corp. has reached
an agreement to acquire the
Dari-Tech Division of Moxie
Industries, Inc. Dari-Tech
produces stabilizers, processed fruits and flavors for
dairy products, including
ice-cream, yogurt and other
frozen desserts.

Fresh Start Bakeries is moving its largest baking facility
to Ontario, Calif., a transition
the supplier of hamburger
buns and English muffins to
McDonald's and Jack in the
Box restaurants expects to
help it expand and modernize its operations in Southern
California, according to an
article in the Richmond TimesDispatch.

X 1986
General Foods Corp., parent
of Entenmann's, Inc., will
consider offers for the sale
of its entire Evansville, Ind.,
flour milling operation or,
alternatively, separate bids
for the 5,000-cwt flour mill,
the mill equipment and grain
elevators.
Reynold (Ren) R. Johnson has
joined Interbake Foods Inc.,
Richmond, Va., as vice-president of corporate purchasing.

At the 2006 International Association of Operative Millers
Conference and Expo in Austin, Texas, outgoing president
Jim Doyle, right, passed the
presidential gavel to the organization's new president, Steve
Curran.
Wendy's International, Inc. is
cutting the trans fatty acids
in its french fries and breaded
chicken items by making the
switch to non-hydrogenated
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Brian Mitchell has been
named national accounts
manager of
Cereal Food
Processors,
Inc., with responsibility for
sales across the Mitchell
country.
Associated British Foods,
the flour milling, baking and
food business controlled by
the Weston family, has sold
its Fine Fare and Shoppers
Paradise supermarket chains
in the U.K. for £668 million.
Michael D. Moon has been
elected president of Heileman

Kitchens of Sara Lee, the
baking operation of Sara Lee
Corp., has named James R.
Carlson, Thomas G. McCarley
Jr., and H. Earl Ritchie to new
positions at the company's
headquarters in Deerfield, Ill.
John Wilcha, formerly vicepresident and group executive at Arnold Foods Co., has
been named president of the
company's
Arnold Bakers operations,
it was announced last
week by Raymond B. Rudy
Wilcha
Jr., chairman
and chief executive officer of Arnold Foods.
ConAgra Inc. has signed a
letter of intent to acquire the
operations of Canadian Harvest Process Ltd., a producer
of dietary fiber based in St.
Thomas, Ont.
Paul M. German, retired vicepresident of The Uhlmann
Co., died June 15 at his home
in Prairie Village, Kas. He
was 82.

X1946
A survey made on behalf of
the Office of Price Administration indicates that shortages of bread and flour in the
United States are the worst in
the history of the country.
Governors of the American
Bakers Association in a
meeting June 14 in Chicago
authorized the organization
to arrange for the strongest

possible action to acquaint
the public and Congress with
the bureaucratic bungling
and mismanagement responsible for the present intolerable bread shortages and bread
lines in the United States.
Taking actions unprecedented
in the peace-time history of
the grain trade, directors of
the Chicago Board of Trade
and Kansas City Board of
Trade ordered an immediate
halt in further transactions
in all wheat futures, effective
June 14, and the liquidation
of all outstanding commitments.
Leslie A. Ford, a former vicepresident of
the Shawnee
Milling Co.,
was elected
president of
the company
last week, sucFord
ceeding to the
post occupied
by his father, J. Lloyd Ford.
The International Milling
Co., Minneapolis, has been
granted a building permit for
the erection of a flour mill of
4,000 cwts of daily capacity
and an elevator of 1,000,000
bus storage on the Cleveland
lake front.
After nearly 70 years of ownership by the Hunter family,
the Hunter Milling Co. was
sold June 11 to the Ross-Zimmerman group, and associates, for a reported $800,000.
The Lathrop Grain Corp. has
acquired the properties of the
St. Mary Mill Co., St. Mary, Mo.
The annual Kansas Wheat
Improvement Association
demonstration on the Paul
Uhlmann farm June 17 will
be addressed
by a wheat
grower who
has become
one of the nation's leaders
of agriculture
Dodd
- Norris E.
Dodd, Undersecretary of Agriculture. MBN
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