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children and caused three
confirmed deaths.

2008
Pepperidge Farm, Inc. has
lowered the sodium content
in many of its bread varieties.
The action follows a similar
move undertaken by Pepperidge's parent company,
Campbell Soup Co., which in
recent years has cut sodium
levels within its soup line.
Roger W.
Masa, former
president of
The Long Co.,
passed away
on Sept. 17. He
was 70 years
old.

The Kroger Co., whose Baked
Foods Division is the largest supermarket baking operation in the United States,
plans to close a number of its
manufacturing plants as part
of a companywide restructuring announced Sept. 23.
Robert J. Vlasic, head of
Vlasic Foods, Inc., has been
named by the board of directors of Campbell Soup Co. to
succeed William S. Cashel Jr.
as chairman.

Masa

The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. announced stockholders have
approved the proposed merger with Mars, Inc.

"The milling industry has stabilized from the 1980s to the point
that people who are in it want to
be in it."
- John C. Miller, incoming
chairman of the North
American Millers' Association
Triarc Companies, Inc. and
Wendy's International announced that both companies'
shareholders have approved a
pending merger. Triarc is the
parent company of Arby's.
Snacking has grown during
the past few years and is forecasted to increase 14% by 2017,
according to market research
company The NPD Group.
Food safety has again
emerged as a significant issue in the People's Republic
of China, this time affecting
children, especially infants,
throughout the country.
Melamine-contaminated
powdered infant formula
has sickened nearly 53,000
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1988

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. has reached an agreement in principle enabling
an investor-group buyout
of Norand Corp., a Pioneer
subsidiary that manufactures and markets portable
computerized data collection
systems and hand-held radio
terminals used in various applications, including route
accounting, inventory management and warehouse data
management.

general manager of the division.
International Multifoods
Corp. has completed the
purchase of a baking mix
manufacturing plant at Bonner Springs, Kas., a suburb of
Kansas City. The plant was
owned by Winchell's Donut
Houses, L.P., La Mirada, Calif.

Continental Baking Co., a
subsidiary of Ralston Purina
Co., has extended use of
health claims for baked foods
with its new Oatmeal Goodness bread line introduced
nationally last week. Labels
point out the benefits of oat
bran in reducing and controlling serum cholesterol levels.

General Mills, Inc. has named
Roger W. Rumble and Gary
M. Rodkin to key positions
within the Sperry Flour Division to prepare for the May 1
retirement of James J. Feeney,
senior vice-president and

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George A. Shields of the
New Century
Co., Chicago,
was elected
president of the
Chicago Association of Flour
Distributors
at the annual
Shields
meeting.
In a newsletter entitled
"Food Inquiries in Great Britain and America," circulated
by Dr. D.W. Kent-Jones and
Dr. A.J. Amos to their clients,
attention is called to the fact
that on Oct. 5 this year there
will be held in Washington
an inquiry concerning flour
bleaching agents, which is of
great interest to millers.
Advertising of the Centennial
Flouring Mills Co. in 1948-49
will be tied-in closely with the
Millers' Long Range Program.

Three persons were fatally injured Sept. 26 in an explosion
that caused substantial damage to, and halted operations
of Jamaica Flour Mills, Ltd.,
of Kingston, Jamaica.

Henry H. Green, owner of the
H.H. Green Mill & Elevator
Co., Pattonsburg, Mo., will
preside at the
fifty-second
annual meeting
of the Grain
and Feed Dealers' National
Green
Association in
Chicago as president of the
organization.

From left, at the BreadPAC reception were, Henry J. Metz, Metz
Baking Co., outgoing chairman
of the A.B.A.; Steven B. Smith
and Philip W. Orth of Ph. Orth
Co., Oak Creek, Wis.; and Robert
W. Kasten Jr. of Wisconsin, who
was a guest at the reception.

Flour production by Canadian
mills in the first month of the
new crop season, August,
totaled only 1,619,752 bbls,
smallest for any month since
July 1942, when war conditions were impeding the outgo.

Kerry Foods, Inc., Jackson,
Wis., has reached an agreement with E-II Holdings, Inc.,
Chicago, to acquire Beatreme
Food Ingredients, Inc., for approximately $130 million.
Heath Varnedoe III, president
and chief operating officer
of Flowers Industries, Inc.,
Thomasville,
Ga., was elected
chairman of the
American Bakers Association
at the board
of governors
meeting conVarnedoe III
cluding the annual convention Sept. 17-20
in Washington.

indication of early settlement.

Thomas Robinson Group
P.L.C. has acquired the flour
and feed milling equipment
operations of Simon Engineering P.L.C., Stockport, for
about £8.5 million.

1948
With the strike of Minneapolis flour workers ending its
third week, there was no

Installation of machinery in
the second unit of 5,000 cwts
daily capacity in the North
Kansas City mill of the Kansas Flour Mills Co. subsidiary
of Flour Mills of America,
Inc., has been completed.
F.A.O. Schwarz of New York,
prominent attorney and
board chairman of F.A.O.
Schwarz Toys, was elected to
the board of directors of General Mills, Inc. MBN
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