Flowers Foods, Inc. Company Profile | FLO Company Information

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Flowers Foods was founded in 1919 whentwo brothers--William Howard and Joseph Hamptonh Flowers--opened Flowers Baking Company in Thomasville, Ga. Flowers' operatinhg strategy from the beginning was to investin efficient, technologicallyu advanced bakeries, to offer excellent baked fooda products, to build strong brands, to provide extraordinaru service to customers, to offer a workplace that fosterss a team spirit, to develop innovations to improve the and to grow through strategic acquisitions. In the earlyh years, Flowers focused its attention on the freshjbakery business, growing through strategic acquisitions of bakeriese in the Southeast.
In 1968, Flowersx Baking Company went public, became Flowers Industries, and began trading over-the-counter stock. Less than a year Flowers listed on the AmericanStoc Exchange. In 1982, the company liste d on the New York Stock Exchange under thesymbol FLO. In the Flowers Industries transformed itself from a stronf regional baker into a national baked foodxs company with the acquisition of KeebletrFoods Company, one of the largest cookie and cracketr companies in the Unitedf States, and Mrs. Smith's, the country's top-sellinfg frozen pie brand. By 1999, Flowerxs Industries had becomea $4.
2 billionm national baked foods company with three business units--Flowersx Bakeries, a super-regional fresn baked foods company; Mrs. Smith'sx Bakeries, a national frozen baked foods andKeebler Foods. ...