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Au Bon Pain Co., a public company, purchased the St. Louis Bread Company in 1993 for $23 million. [12] [13] [14] In 1997, Au Bon Pain changed the company name to Panera, from a word that has roots in the Latin word for "breadbasket" (Classical pānārium, Vulgar pānāria) and is identical to the word for "breadbasket" in Spanish and Catalan ...
Acquisitions during the 1950s and early 1960s included the Ambrosia, Remar, Butter Cream, Campbell-Sell and Schall Tasty baking companies, the Kingston Cake and Cobb's Sunlit bakeries, Sweetheart Bread Company and Hart's Bakeries. [15] In the late 1960s IBC acquired Millbrook Bread, Shawano Farms and the Baker and Shawano canning companies. [15]
The company's toasty warm sandwiches are available on either multi-grain wheat or regular bread. The Box O' refers to the company's Originals, or regular size, and BIGS offers 30% more.
The company gave as their reason for this action that they had been crippled by a strike by BCTGM, the bakers' union. [1] Union spokespersons attributed the company's situation to poor management over a long period of years. [2] On January 11, 2013, Flowers Foods purchased the brand from Hostess. [3] A Vintage Sign Promoting Merita Bread
Bimbo Bakeries USA's story began in 1994, when Grupo Bimbo – Mexico's largest baking company, with operations in 21 countries – purchased La Hacienda, a California-based tortilla company. Bimbo Bakeries USA then entered the U.S. bread market in 1997 with the acquisition of Pacific Pride Bakeries of San Diego.
Brownberry changed the recipe of the bread, and was changed back after complaints. [13] Arnold, like Brownberry, enjoys a long history, having begun in 1940 by Dean and Betty Arnold. In 23 years, Brownberry has gone through 6 mergers to become what it is today. The bakery produces and ships more than 1 million pounds of bread every week.
Kern's descendants sold his company to the Brown family in the 1920s. [1] [3] In 1931, the company, moved to a new plant on Chapman Highway, where they focused more on the company's line of breads than on confections. [3] Over the years, Kern's became one of the top-selling breads in East Tennessee. [6]