SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwired - Feb 24, 2014) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- The bread and bakery industry is pouring a lot of dough into manufacturing and distribution assets. Project expenditures in the U.S. and Canada to build new plants, expand existing operations and upgrade facilities are expected to surpass $1 billion by mid-2014. Industrial Info has identified more than 70 projects within the segment at U.S. facilities with a cumulative investment value of more than $990 million.
Other companies featured: Flowers Foods Incorporated (NYSE:FLO)
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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.