Baking & Snack - November 2020 - 14

Snack foods manufacturer
Benestar Brands, Chicago, plans
to invest $24 million to build a
new production plant in Kings
Mountain, NC.
Bimbo Bakeries USA, Horsham,
Pa., has been recognized by
the Environmental Protection
Agency with the 2020 Energy Star
Partner of the Year: Sustained
Excellence award.
Einstein Bros. Bagels, Lakewood,
Colo., the largest retail bagel company in the United States with
more than 700 locations, is opening its first convenience store locations in Houston.
Wellness Natural, Inc., Toronto, a
newly formed natural foods company, acquired SimplyProtein, a
nutritional snacking brand previously owned by Simply Good
Foods USA, Inc.
ADM, Chicago, plans to build a
new probiotics production plant
in Valencia, Spain.
CORE Industrial Partners
LLC, a Chicago-based private
equity firm, has acquired J&K
Ingredients Corp., a Paterson,
NJ-based manufacturer of baked
foods ingredients.
Schenck Process Group (SPG),
Darmstadt, Germany, has reached
an agreement to acquire Baker
Perkins, a Peterborough, UKbased global supplier of food processing equipment.

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David Biegger will retire from Conagra Brands, Chicago, in May 2021. Mr.
Biegger has been executive vice president and chief supply chain officer for the past
five years.
Flowers Foods, Inc., Thomasville, Ga., announced that Eric Mathis joined the company as senior vice president and chief procurement officer.
Mary's Gone Crackers, Reno, Nev., welcomed Kaitlin Sass as senior research and
development manager.
Tilmon (Tim) Brown transitioned to the position of chairman of New Horizons
Baking Co., Norwalk, Ohio. Mr. Brown appointed his daughter, Trina Bediako as
chief executive officer. Ms. Bediako appointed Michael Porter, Jr., president and
chief operating officer.
Lauren Cody, who previously was an executive at McDonald's Corp., has joined
Panera Bread, St. Louis, as chief of staff and chief customer officer.
Gerard Law has been named chief executive officer of Real Good Foods, Los Angeles.
Shannan Redcay, senior director of innovation and quality assurance at Utz Brands,
Inc., Hanover, Pa., was promoted to senior vice president of innovation and value creation.
The American Bakers Association (ABA) named Ben Simpson as the organization's
new director of membership.
Keith Neumann has joined Continental Mills, Tukwila, Wash., as chief growth officer.
Cindy Mahoney has been named chief executive officer of DecoPac, Anoka, Minn.

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