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1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. [1] is a floral and foods gift retailer and distribution company in the United States. The company's focus, except for Mother's Day and Valentine's Day, is on gift baskets. They also use the name 1-800-Baskets.com. [1] Their use of "coyly self-descriptive telephone numbers" is part of founder James McCann's business ...
Main bakery in Thomasville, Georgia. In 1919, brothers William Howard and Joseph Hampton Flowers opened Flowers Baking Company in Thomasville, Georgia. [4] They made their first acquisition, of Tally Maid bakery, in 1937, and in 1942, became the sixth bakery in the U.S. to franchise Quality Bakers of America’s Sunbeam brand and Little Miss Sunbeam for its white bread.
Coming from a background of building and expanding businesses, [13] [15] MacKechnie bought a bakery in Tampa [13] and began supplying doughnuts and pastry goods throughout west central Florida. [15] While continuing to run his bakery business, [ 13 ] MacKechnie noticed that his employees were cashing their paychecks in convenience stores [ 14 ...
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Mrs. Fields' Original Cookies Inc. is an American franchisor in the snack food industry, with Mrs. Fields and TCBY as its core brands. Through its franchisees' retail stores, it is one of the largest retailers of freshly-baked-on-premises specialty cookies and brownies in the United States [3] and the largest retailer of soft-serve frozen yogurt in the country. [3]
Old HB, Inc., [2] known as Hostess Brands from 2009 to 2013 and established in 1930 as Interstate Bakeries Corporation, was a wholesale baker and distributor of bakery products in the United States. [3]
La Segunda Central Bakery is a purveyor of Cuban bread, pastries, and other baked goods in the historic neighborhood of Ybor City in Tampa, Florida. It was founded in 1915 as part of a co-op of three bakeries in the Ybor City area: La Primera , La Segunda and La Tercera (literally the First, the Second, and the Third).
In 1976 Ukrop's bought Dot's Pastry Shop, a well-known bakery in Richmond. It used the name Dot's Pastry Shop for years before changing it to Ukrop's Bakery. From 1937 to 2010 the Ukrop family operated supermarkets in Richmond and its surrounding area under the corporate name Ukrop's Super Markets , but the family sold its retail grocery ...