Flowers Foods (FLO)

flowers foods, inc. (nyse: flo), with 2014 sales of $3.75 billion, is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers in the u.s. the company’s 46 highly efficient bakeries produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. approximately 81 percent of the u.s. population has access to the company’s fresh bakery foods through a network of independent distributors serving the east, south, and southwest. flowers’ frozen bakery items and snack cakes are delivered to customers’ warehouses nationwide. flowers' top brands include nature's own, whitewheat, wonder bread, cobblestone mill, tastykake, mrs. freshley's, european bakers, bluebird, and mi casa and regional brands that include merita, home pride, butternut, country kitchen, barowsky's organics, butterkrust, captain john derst's, evangeline maid, sunbeam, bunny, mary jane, aunt hattie's, and holsum, and mary jane & friends.