Flowers Foods, Inc.

Introduction: Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO), headquartered in Thomasville, Ga., is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods in the United States. The company operates 45 highly efficient bakeries that produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, and pastries, which are distributed fresh to foodservice and retail customers in the Southeastern, Southwestern, and mid-Atlantic states and frozen to national foodservice and retail customers.

Flowers' top brands include Nature's Own, Whitewheat, Cobblestone Mill, Tastykake, Mrs. Freshley's, European Bakers, BlueBird, and Mi Casa and regional brands that include ButterKrust, Captain John Derst's, Evangeline Maid, and Mary Jane & Friends. Among the company's top regional brands are Sunbeam, Bunny, Mary Jane, Aunt Hattie's, and Holsum.

Flowers Foods is a leader in the baking industry. The company maintains some of the most efficient and technologically advanced bakeries in the country. Flowers is dedicated to providing delicious, quality baked foods at a good value.

In fiscal 2012, Flowers Foods had sales of $3.0 billion. Income from continuing operations was $136.1 million.