What Happened?
Thomasville, GA-based Flowers Foods Appointed Penny Patterson-Smith as Chief Innovation Officer
About the Company
Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO), with 2015 sales of $3.8 billion, is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers in the U.S. The company`s 49 highly efficient bakeries produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. Approximately 85 percent of the U.S. population has access to the company`s fresh bakery foods through a network of independent distributors serving the East, South, and Southwest. Flowers` frozen bakery items and snack cakes are delivered to customers` warehouses nationwide. Flowers` top brands include Nature`s Own, Whitewheat, Wonder Bread, Dave`s Killer Bread, Cobblestone Bread Company, Tastykake, Mrs. Freshley`s, European Bakers, BlueBird, and Mi Casa and regional brands that include Merita, Home Pride, Butternut, Country Kitchen, Barowsky`s Organics, ButterKrust, Captain John Derst`s, Evangeline Maid, Sunbeam, Bunny, Mary Jane, Aunt Hattie`s, and Holsum, and Mary Jane & Friends.
About the Person
Penny Patterson-Smith is Chief Innovation Officer at Flowers Foods. Previously, Penny held various senior IT leadership roles in the industry.
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