Flowers Foods Announces Board Appointments, Effective January 3, 2016
November 24, 2015 at 10:00 pm
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The board of directors of Flowers Foods announced it has elected Rhonda O. Gass and Richard Lan as two new board members. Gass and Lan will join Flowers Foods' board of directors effective January 3, 2016. Gass has served as vice president and chief information officer for Stanley Black & Decker since 2012 and was named an executive officer of the company the same year.
Lan spent twenty years with Maple Leaf Foods/Canada Bread Ltd. He was chief operating officer of Maple Leaf Food Group.
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.