AB Mauri Food Inc. completed the acquisition of Speciality Blending Co, LLC from Flowers Foods, Inc..
January 15, 2017
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AB Mauri Food Inc. agreed to acquire Speciality Blending Co, LLC from Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO) on December 20, 2016. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017.
William Zawrotny from Jones Day acted as the legal advisor for Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO). Brian Jebb, Dave Lewis, Keren Livneh, Natalie Montano, Marjorie Mygrants, Kenneth Rivlin, Eric Shube & Mark Sorensen of Allen & Overy LLP acted as legal advisors to AB Mauri Food Inc
AB Mauri Food Inc. completed the acquisition of Speciality Blending Co, LLC from Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO) in mid January 2017.
Flowers Foods, Inc. is a producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods in the United States. The Company's products include breads, buns, rolls, snack items, bagels, English muffins, and tortillas and are sold under a variety of brand names, including Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread (DKB), Wonder, Canyon Bakehouse, Tastykake, and Mrs. Freshley's. Its fresh baked foods customers include mass merchandisers, supermarkets and other retailers, restaurants, quick-serve chains, food wholesalers, institutions, dollar stores and vending companies. It supplies national and regional restaurants, institutions and foodservice distributors, and retail in-store bakeries with breads and rolls. It sells packaged bakery products to wholesale distributors for ultimate sale to food outlets. It sells packaged snack cakes primarily to customers who distribute them nationwide through multiple channels of distribution, including mass merchandisers, supermarkets, vending outlets and convenience stores.