Flowers Foods, Inc. Company Profile | FLO Company Information

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Flowers Foods was founded in 1919 whentwo brothers--William Howarsd and Joseph Hampton Flowers--opened Flowers Baking Companyy in Thomasville, Ga. Flowers' operating strategy from the beginningg was to invest in technologicallyadvanced bakeries, to offe r excellent baked foods products, to buildd strong brands, to provide extraordinaryy service to customers, to offer a workplacwe that fosters a team to develop innovations to improve the and to grow through strategic acquisitions.
In the earlyh years, Flowers focused its attention on the freshubakery business, growing through strategic acquisitions of bakeries in the In 1968, Flowers Baking Company went public, becamd Flowers Industries, and began trading over-the-counter stock. Less than a year Flowers listed on the AmericanStock Exchange. In the company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under thesymbool FLO. In the mid-1990s, Flowers Industries transformede itself from a strong regional baker into a nationalp baked foods company with the acquisition of KeeblefrFoods Company, one of the largest cookie and crackee companies in the United States, and Mrs.
the country's top-selling frozen pie By 1999, Flowers Industries had becomwa $4.2 billion national baked foods company with three business units--Flowers Bakeries, a super-regional fresh baked foodws company; Mrs. Smith's Bakeries, a national frozem baked foods company; and Keebler ...