[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 2700-2701]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        FLOWERS FOODS NAMED ``BEST MANAGED'' BY FORBES MAGAZINE

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 30, 2007

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor a company 
that has done much for the 2nd Congressional District of Georgia, 
Flowers Foods, recently named by Forbes magazine as one of the best 
managed companies in America.
  To create the list, Forbes looked at more than 1,000 publicly traded 
companies with at least $1 billion in revenue, and chose 400 based on 
metrics, earnings forecasts, corporate governance ratings, and other 
public company information. From that list, Forbes editors picked one 
best-managed company from each of the 26 industries represented--and 
Flowers Foods was among the ``best of the best.'' Forbes selected these 
companies not just for their financial performance, but also for 
leadership, innovation, and execution.
  Flowers Foods is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery 
goods in the United States. The company operates 36 highly efficient 
bakeries that produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes and pastries 
which are distributed to foodservice and retail customers in the 
Southeastern, Southwestern, and Mid-Atlantic States, and frozen to 
national foodservice and retail customers.
  Founded in Thomasville, GA in 1919 by brothers William Howard and 
Joseph Hampton Flowers, Flowers Foods produces many well-known brands 
of baked goods including Nature's Own, Sunbeam, ButterKrust, Mi Casa 
and Bluebird.
  In Thomasville alone, which is in my district, Flowers employs 550 
people at one bakery.

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Statewide, Flowers employs 2,110 people at seven bakeries.
  Flowers Foods is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock 
Exchange, ticker symbol FLO.
  Again, please join me in congratulating Flowers Foods on their recent 
award. It is an excellent company and an integral part of the business 
community of the 2nd Congressional District of Georgia.

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