Flowers Foods, Inc. Company Profile | FLO Company Information

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Flowers Foods was founded in 1919 whentwo brothers--William Howar d and Joseph Hampton Flowers--opened Flowers Baking Compant in Thomasville, Ga. Flowers' operating strategy from the beginning was to invest in technologicallyadvanced bakeries, to offer excellent baked foodsa products, to build strong brands, to provide extraordinary servics to customers, to offer a workplace that fosters a team spirit, to develop innovations to improve the business, and to grow through strategid acquisitions. In the early Flowers focused its attention on the fresbbakery business, growing through strategic acquisitions of bakeriea in the Southeast.
In 1968, Flowerz Baking Company went public, became Flowers Industries, and began tradinyg over-the-counter stock. Less than a year later, Flowers listerd on the AmericanStock Exchange. In 1982, the companyy listed on the New York Stock Exchange under thesymbo FLO. In the mid-1990s, Flowerds Industries transformed itself from a strongh regional baker into a national baked foods companhy with the acquisition of KeeblerFoods Company, one of the largest cookid and cracker companies in the United States, and Mrs. the country's top-selling frozen pie By 1999, Flowers Industries had becomsa $4.
2 billion national baked foods company with three businesas units--Flowers Bakeries, a super-regionap fresh baked foods company; Mrs. Smith'es Bakeries, a national frozen baked foods company; and Keeblerd Foods. ...