Milling & Baking News - January 10, 2023 - 46

TUES | 01 10 2023
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Flowers Foods Inc. has
emerged as the likely buyer for
the majority of the bread assets
of Hostess Brands Inc., Irving,
Texas, the companies announced
Jan. 11.
Bimbo Bakeries USA has purchased
30 acres of land in Macungie Township,
Pa., to build a $75 million baking plant
that will bring more than 100 jobs to the
area and produce bread and buns for the
Northeast, the company said.
James M. Meyer, president of
Italgrani USA, has been named
chairman of the North American
Millers' Association. He takes
over for Greg Shlafer, who is
departing the milling business to
lead ConAgra Foods, Inc.'s Lamb
Weston business.
Siemer Milling Co., Teutopolis, Ill., was
honored Nov. 27 as Illinois Family Business
of the Year by the Quinlan School of
Business at Loyola University Chicago.
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Albert Lepage, left, and Andrew Barowsky,
center, both of Lepage Bakeries, Inc., with
Vermont Lt. Governor-elect Barbara Snelling,
breaking ground in Brattleboro, Vt.,
for a new Lepage baking plant.
James B. Jordan has been elected chairman
of the Kansas City Board of Trade
for 1993.
Hershey Pasta Group will close its
Ronzoni Foods Corp. pasta plant at Long
Island City, NY, by July 1, and transfer
production to other locations.
Newly Weds Foods, Inc., a Chicago-based
producer of batter and breader coatings,
has begun an expansion of its Springdale,
Ark., plant.
Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Mich.,
increased its domestic breakfast cereal
prices an average of 3.2%, effective Jan. 2.
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, raised
its prices an average of 3.5%, effective
Jan. 8.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's National Climatic
Data Center is calling 2012 the warmest
and second most extreme year for the
contiguous United States.
Researchers at Harvard School of Public
Health are recommending adoption of
a consistent, evidence-based standard for
labeling whole grain foods after results
from a new study concluded current
standards are inconsistent and, in some
cases, misleading.
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Rapid progress is being made in the
erection of the new 6,000-bbl plant of
the Kansas Flour Mills Co. in North
Kansas City.
A new Portland, Ore., mill, the Terminal
Flouring Mills Co., has begun operations.
The plant was built two years ago by the
Eagle Flour Mills Co. The firm that built
the plant got into financial difficulties
before the plant could be put into operation.
Throughout
the state of California, the
week beginning with Jan. 21 will be proclaimed
" Bread or Bakery Week. "
Work will be started shortly on an
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concerns, is reported. Joannides is said
to have been hanged by the Turks after
being convicted of giving money to Greek
patriotic societies.
The Mills of Albert Lea, Albert Lea,
Minn., has taken over the operation and
management of the Stafford Flour Mills,
an 800-bbl plant at Stafford, Kan.
addition to the plant of the Kansas Milling
Co. in Wichita.
A press dispatch from Athens says the
hanging of Thomas Joannides, a representative
in the Near East of large milling
How many flour brands should a mill
have? This is an interesting question
and it can be answered in many, many
different ways. Millers who have only
a minimum number of brands declare
that the fewer the brands, the smaller the
sack inventory. MBN
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