date:May 28, 2012
seeing those expensive retailers that are targeting an upper end consumer, were seeing those retailers doing very well.
Flowers has snapped up more than 100 companies since going public in 1968, most recently acquiring snack cake maker Tasty Baking Co in a $165m deal struck last year.
The firm operates 41 bakeries supplying fresh products to foodservice and retail customers in the Southeastern, Southwestern, and mid-Atlantic states, and frozen products to national foodservice and retail custo