Inclement Weather Slows Construction of New Flowers Bakery in Kentucky

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Plans to build a new bakery in Bardstown, Kentucky, by Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) (Thomasville, Georgia), have been hampered by harsh weather in the area over the last week. Heavy rains and saturated soil is presenting a challenge for earth-moving equipment in preparation for site construction. Register Construction, the general contractor on the $52 million project, expects to proceed with construction of the new bakery within the next couple of weeks.

Plans call for the construction of a 200,000-square-foot bakery on a 36-acre site that will produce fresh breads and buns for markets in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. The bakery will open with one production line and will add a second line in the near future. A nine- to 10-month construction schedule places start-up of the facility at the end of the year.

Flowers Foods, a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods in the United States, operates 36 bakeries that produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes and pastries that are distributed fresh to foodservice and retail customers in the Southeastern, Southwestern, and Mid-Atlantic states, and frozen to national foodservice and retail customers. Each bakery operates as a separate subsidiary of the company.

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