Approximately a dozen SKUs of the popular "French puff pastry in the green box," which chefs and foodservice operators have enjoyed since 1938, will be manufactured in the community.
Bakery manufacturer Brill--formerly known as CSM Bakery Solutions in the U.S.--is being sold to Minneapolis-based Rise Baking Company. The deal is expected to close this summer. Terms were not disclosed. This is the second major acquisition in just over a year for Rise Baking Company. Rise purchased the North American frozen bakery business of Dawn Foods in March, 2020.
Company will focus on three core brands: La Brea Bakery, Otis Spunkmeyer, and Oakrun Farm Bakery.
May 24, 2021
ARYZTA North America has announced it has changed its name to Aspire Bakeries, a name reflecting the direction the company aims to continue to move – upwards. Following the sale to private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg earlier this year, the company set out to reintroduce itself with a new name while continuing to focus on growth across its three core brands: La Brea Bakery, Otis Spunkmeyer, and Oakrun Farm Bakery.
Flowers Foods, producer of Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread, Wonder, Tastykake, and other bakery foods, announced that Heeth Varnedoe, senior vice president of DSD Regions/Sales, has been promoted to chief transformation officer (CTO), a newly created role at the company, effective January 4, 2021.
Individual departments created to focus on innovation, cake and snacking segments.
July 20, 2020
Flowers Foods, producer of Nature’s Own, Dave’s Killer Bread, Wonder, Tastykake, and other bakery foods, has announced organizational structure changes designed to increase focus on brand growth, product innovation, and improving cake business operations.
Flowers Foods, producer of Nature’s Own, Wonder, Tastykake, Dave’s Killer Bread, and other bakery foods, today announced that it has temporarily stopped production at its bakery in Savannah, Georgia due to an increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases within its production staff and in the number of those self-quarantining. The bakery’s shipping, engineering, sanitation, and office teams continue to work at the facility, but 115 production employees have been furloughed. Flowers will pay furloughed production employees and ask those employees to shelter-in-place until the bakery resumes production.
The growing foodservice market, including ready-to-bake and ready-to-thaw frozen baked goods, continues to encourage increasing consumer demand for frozen bakery market.
March 6, 2019
The global frozen bakery industry was valued over $32 billion in 2018, and is likely to exceed revenue of $42.4 billion by 2026, according to a study produced by Acumen Research and Consulting, India.
Sara Lee Frozen Bakery will also invest in its research and development efforts, and soon begin building a new R&D facility and test kitchen, including a pilot plant.
July 30, 2018
Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., commenced the sale of Sara Lee Frozen Bakery to private equity firm Kohlberg & Co., Mount Kisco, N.Y.