Milling & Baking News - January 3, 2017 - 46

Archive X
Co. is launching a Trivial Pursuit edition of its Pop-Tarts
toaster pastries.

X 2007
Unilever n.v.
has named
Michael Polk
president of
Americas. He
will succeed
John Rice, who
will retire in
March.

X 1987

Polk

The Starbucks Coffee Co. has
cut trans fatty acids from the
food products sold in 50% of
its U.S. operated stores.
New government data showing an 8% to 16% drop in
folate levels in young women
is "very disturbing" and
should prompt fortification
of grain products at higher
levels, according to the March
of Dimes.
J&J Snack Foods Corp. announced it has acquired the
assets of Hom/Ade Foods,
Inc., a Pensacola, Fla.-based
manufacturer and distributor
of biscuits and dumplings
sold under the Mary B's and
private label store brands.

Sara Lee Food & Beverage,
Downers Grove, Ill., and Pepperidge Farm, Inc., Norwalk,
Conn., each recently expanded
its bread lineup with the introduction of new whole grain
varieties.

In a one-year promotion beginning this month, The Kellogg

Per capita consumption of white
bread in the United States has
increased slightly in the past
five years and will continue to
do so through 1991 because of
the growing number of consumers over the age of 65, according
to estimates and projections
released by the U.S. Department
of Commerce in the U.S. Industrial Outlook for 1987.
Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc., and its subsidiary
Kansas City Southern Railway Co., on Jan. 5 urged the
Interstate Commerce Commission to deny a petition to
reopen the Santa Fe/Southern
Pacific merger case and, in a
surprise move, said it wants
to purchase the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Sosland Companies, Inc.,
parent company of Milling
& Baking News and Supermarket Business, has acquired
Totally Housewares, a tabloid
for housewares executives,
published bi-weekly in New
York City.
Midwest Grain Products, Inc.,
based in Atchison, Kas., has
acquired The Pillsbury Co.'s
Atchison flour mill, it was
announced by Ladd Seaberg,
president of Midwest Grain.
The plant has a daily milling
capacity of 12,200 cwts.
Thomas F.
Shaughnessy
has been
named vicepresident and
general sales
manager of

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Shaughnessy

ConAgra Milling Co., succeeding C. Robert Stephenson, who continues as a vicepresident of ConAgra.

The message contained a
reminder of the disastrous
experience of farmers after
World War I.

Thomas G. Cernich, president
of Cernich and
Hartzell, Inc.,
was elected
chairman of
the Kansas
City Board of
Trade, succeedCernich
ing James A.
Frost of Continental Grain Co.

Donald S. Eber, superintendent of the
Centennial
Flouring Mills
Co. plant
at Spokane,
Wash., has
been named
Eber
executive
secretary of
the Association of Operative
Millers.
The 1,200-cwt mill of the
Kimbell Diamond Milling
Co., Gainesville, Texas, has
been purchased by the Fant
Milling Co., Sherman, Texas,
said James A. Fant, general
manager.

Interstate Bakeries Corp., in
an effort to emphasize the quality image of its Dolly Madison
Cake Division, has replaced its
19-year-old chubby-faced girl
logo as part of a $250,000 project devoted to the company's
product development, creative
advertising and packaging.
Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc. has
returned to supermarket
shelves in the WashingtonBaltimore area with its freshbaked variety bread and rolls
and biscuits after a 10-year
absence.

X1947
Additional subscriptions
from original endorsers of the
proposed baking industry's
promotion campaign have
brought the total of pledges
to $469,162 a year for three
years, the American Bakers
Association said ($8.5 million,
in 2017 dollars).
Without indicating specifically the measures that
should be adopted, President
Truman, in his message to
the 80th Congress on Jan. 6,
urged action for "permanent
farm welfare" ahead of the
expiration of the farm price
supports of 1947 and 1949.

Elmo F. Merrill, treasurer
and general
manager of the
Moore-Lowry
Flour Mills
Co., Kansas
City, was
elected second
Merrill
vice-president
of the Kansas
City Board of Trade.
Dan J. Rhule has been made
assistant sales
manager of the
Moore-Lowry
Flour Mills
Co., Kansas
City, said Jack
K. Moore, presRhule
ident and general manager.
Dr. Robert R. Williams, director of research for Research
Corp., former chemical director of the Bell Telephone
Laboratories, upheld the
enrichment program of white
bread and flour in an address
Jan. 9 before a large gathering
of chemists at the Hotel Commodore, New York.
World War II veterans predominate in the 50th civilian
class of the School of Baking
of th e American Institute of
Baking in Chicago. The class
includes 63 veterans. MBN
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