FLO
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Information
Name
Flowers Foods
Currency
USD
Market Cap
1.43B
Avg Daily Volume
6.87M
52 Week High
12.21 USD
52 Week Low
5.4 USD
Trading Hours
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Business Summary
Flowers Foods, Inc. produces and markets packaged bakery food products in the United States. The company's principal products include fresh breads, buns, rolls, snack items, bagels, English muffins, tortillas, baking mixes, and frozen breads and rolls as well as snack items including bars, cakes, cookies, and crackers. The company offers its products under the Nature's Own, DKB, Canyon Bakehouse, Simple Mills, Wonder, and Tastykake brand names. It distributes its products through a direct-store-delivery distribution and a warehouse delivery system, as well as operates bakeries. The company's customers include national and regional restaurants, institutions and foodservice distributors, and retail in-store bakeries; wholesale distributors; mass merchandisers, supermarkets, vending outlets, and convenience stores; quick-serve chains, food wholesalers, institutions, dollar stores, and vending companies; and public health care, military commissaries, and prisons, and other governmental institutions. The company was formerly known as Flowers Industries and changed its name to Flowers Foods, Inc. in 2001. Flowers Foods, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia.
Top News
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FLOWERS FOODS ELECTS TWO NEW MEMBERS TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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38m ago
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Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO) Elects Two Directors to Its Board
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38m ago
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