Stock Report: Flowers Foods Inc. (FLO) Report Updated: May 13, 2013 | Print This Page

Flowers Foods, Inc. produces and markets bakery products in the United States. It operates in two segments, Direct-Store-Delivery (DSD) and Warehouse Delivery. The DSD segment produces fresh bakery foods, including fresh breads, buns, rolls, tortillas, snack cakes, pastries, pies, brownies, cupcakes, sandwich rounds, sandwich rolls and hot dog rolls, and thin sliced bagels, as well as chocolate bells and muffins. This segment offers its products under the brand names of Nature’s Own, Whitewheat, Cobblestone Mill, Tastykake, Blue Bird, ButterKrust, Dandee, Mary Jane, Mary Jane and Friends, Evangeline Maid, Captain John Derst, Country Hearth, Natural Grain, Flowers Foods, Mi Casa, and Frestillas, as well as markets regional franchised brands, such as Sunbeam, Roman Meal, Bunny, Holsum, and Aunt Hattie’s. It sells its products through DSD route delivery system to retail and foodservice customers in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southwest, as well as in select markets in the Northeast, California, and Nevada. The Warehouse Delivery segment produces frozen breads, snack cakes, tortillas, and rolls to national retail, foodservice, vending, and co-pack customers. This segment markets its products under the brand names of Mrs. Freshley’s, European Bakers, Broad Street Bakery, Leo’s Foods, and Juarez. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia.