Flowers Foods has integrated more than 100 acquisitions since 1968, and three significant ones in just the last three years Tasty Baking, Lepage Bakeries, and the Sara Lee and Earthgrains brands in California.
Since first launching in the northeastern United States last summer, Europe's beloved yogurt brand Muller has been generating rave reviews from Americans.
With over 30 percent of Ocean Spray Cranberry juice drinkers mixing their juice with sparkling water at home, the partnership builds on an already familiar consumer behavior.
This acquisition strengthens Flowers Foods' market presence in California, adding about 14.5 million people to the 70 percent of the U.S. population that currently has access to its fresh breads and rolls.