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& Lyle P.L.C. in a transaction
valued at about $320 million.

2010

U.S. adults consume an average of 3,466 mg of sodium
per day, more than twice the
recommended limit for many
segments of the U.S. population, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
William J. Hoover, the retired
president of AIB International,
died July 6 in Colorado Springs,
Colo., following a brief illness.
He was 82. He is shown in the
photo at left, in 1978 at the
dedication of the AIB headquarters in Manhattan, Kas. He was
joined by Kansas Governor Robert Bennett, center, and Ernest
B. Hueter, Interstate Brands.
Robert C. Junge, a former
executive with Junge Bakery
in Coffeyville, Kas., died May
16 at age 94. At the time of
his death Mr. Junge was the
oldest living member of the
American Society of Baking.
Mary A. Krier
has been named
vice-president
of communications and corporate responsibility at Flowers
Foods, Inc.

Michael J. Cornelis, vicepresident of
Sasa-Demarle,
has been named
chairman of the
board of BEMA,
the association for bakery
equipment
Cornelis
manufacturers
and allied firms.
American Sugar Refining, a
division of the Florida Crystals Corp., West Palm Beach,
Fla., plans to acquire the European sugar operations of Tate
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Nutrition labels carried by
baked foods, pasta, family flour and consumer mix
products will undergo a
major transformation under
labeling regulations expected
to be proposed by the Food
and Drug Administration.
Bunge Corp. has acquired the
grain elevators and grainrelated assets of Great River
Grain Corp.

The Hain Celestial Group,
Inc. has acquired the assets and business of World
Gourmet Marketing L.L.C.,
including the Sensible Portions brand of Garden Veggie
Straws, Pita Bites and other
snack products.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisor Committee should maintain the current recommended
daily level of six grain servings in soon-to-be-published
guidelines, according to the
American Bakers Association.

The Pepperidge Farm, Inc.
baking plant at Grand Prairie,
Texas, a suburb of Dallas,
will be closed Oct. 1 as part
of a major restructuring announced June 29 by the parent, Campbell Soup Co.
Vincent J. Noce Sr., the father
of Vincent J. (Vinnie) Noce,
chief executive of Roush
Products Co., Inc., died June
25 in Red Bank, N.J.
Mrs. Dudley K. Holmes Sr.,
74, wife of the retired vicepresident of Chelsea Milling
Co., died June 30.
Archer Daniels Midland Co.,
Decatur, Ill., has reached an
agreement in principle to acquire the citric acid business
of Pfizer, Inc.

Krier

Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. on June
25 acquired Sepp's Gourmet
Foods Ltd., a manufacturer of
frozen breakfast foods for the
retail and food service sectors
with annual sales of approximately $29.3 million.

wheat flour mill of ADM
Milling Co. to Southeastern
Mills, Inc., Rome, Ga.

The Kellogg Co. is extending
the Eggo product line with
the launch of Eggo Real Fruit
Pizzas, an all-in-one combination of fruit and granola on a
baked cinnamon and mapleflavored crust.
Kansas State University and
Monsanto Co. have formed a
partnership that will allow both
to share germplasm and technology, and ultimately, improve
their wheat breeding programs.

1990
Archer Daniels Midland
Co., Decatur, Ill., formally
requested Federal Trade
Commission approval to sell
the Milner (Barnesville), Ga.,

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Lender 's Bagel Bakery, part
of Kraft-General Foods, has
announced a multimilliondollar expansion of its Mattoon, Ill., bagel plant.
John Nally has
been named
managing director of Dawn
Foods Ltd.
of the United
Kingdom.

Nally

President Bush sent a personal letter to Kevin M.
Burke, director of industrial
and regulatory affairs at the
American Bakers Association,
thanking him for the association's efforts in opposing the
parental leave bill in both the
House and Senate.

1950
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
president of Columbia University, New York, was a
guest of Harry A. Bullis,
chairman of General Mills,
Inc., in Minneapolis July 7.
While President Truman stated that legislation has been
prepared by the National
Security Resources Board for
economic and manpower controls, Senator Scott W. Lucas
of Illinois, Democratic leader
of the Senate, said July 10
that, so far as he knows, the
president is not contemplating the invoking of any new
drastic new steps at this time.
In a bulletin to members on
"If War Comes," the American
Bakers' Association says that
a "quick freeze" on hoarding,
prices, wages and other factors
in the economy will be ordered
by the government under
plans drafted by the National
Security Resources Board.
"Are European engineering
firms providing a more complete service to the milling
industry than are firms in this
country? After having returned
from a trip made through
seven European countries with
that question in mind, my answer is a definite 'yes.'"
- Henry S. Crosby,
vice-president and director
of plant engineering, General
Mills, Inc., Minneapolis
Strides in increasing the outturn and improving the quality
of wheat production in Kansas
were saluted by leaders in baking, milling, the grain trade,
research and farming at the
seventh annual Kansas City
Field Day of the Kansas Wheat
Improvement Association on
the Uhlmann farm near Kansas City. "We are able to bake
better product because you
give millers better wheat," M.
Lee Marshall, chairman of the
American Bakers' Association
and of the Continental Baking
Co., New York, told the meeting, which was attended by
more than 300. MBN
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