date:Oct 14, 2013
Flowers Foods will re-open the Henderson plantin Nevada that shut down in November 2012 when Hostess Brandswent into liquidation. The site was one asset that Flowers acquired inits $360m buy of Hostess brands including Wonder Bread andNatures Pride in March this year.
As weve said since acquiring the Hostess assets this past summer,our plan is to open bakeries as we need additional productioncapacity to meet market demand, said president and CEO of FlowersFoods Allen l. Shiver.
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