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mostly sandwich bread
category included Flowers
Foods,
Thomasville,
Dollar Sales Dollar Sales Dollar Share
GA, with sales up 11.8%
($ mil)
% Chg
of Type
and Pepperidge Farm,
Fresh Bread - Total
8,680.6
-1.06
100.00
Norwalk, CT, with sales
BIMBO BAKERIES USA
2,488.7
-0.98
28.67
rising 9.5%, IRI noted.
PRIVATE LABEL
2,037.6
-0.70
23.47
Regional bakers did the
FLOWERS FOODS BAKERIES GROUP
1,182.1
11.75
13.62
best, with Lewis Bakeries,
PEPPERIDGE FARM, INC.
622.0
9.52
7.17
Evansville, IN, jumpHOSTESS BRANDS
353.9
-51.94
4.08
ing 17.0%; United States
LEWIS BAKERIES, INC.
155.9
17.07
1.80
Bakery, Portland, OR,
UNITED STATES BAKERY
118.3
18.54
1.36
up 18.5%; Aunt Millie’s
LA BREA BAKERY
111.0
-1.70
1.28
Bakeries, Fort Wayne,
AUNT MILLIE'S BAKERIES
105.2
13.39
1.21
IN, increasing 13.4%;
SCHWEBEL BAKING CO.
73.7
5.67
0.85
IRI InfoScan Reviews
and Schwebel Baking,
Total US - FDMx (food, drug,mass,excluding Wal-mart)
52 weeks ending May 19, 2013
Youngstown, OH, rising 5.6%. United States
Bakery’s growth in the
Northwest, where Hostess hadn’t competed for years in sold to foodservice, private label and other channels not
the bread aisle, was likely due to geographic growth and monitored by IRI.
market penetration.
The outlook is more optimistic for savvy wholesale
However, IRI showed category leader Bimbo Bakeries bakers, especially those who provide an alternative to
USA, Horsham, PA, seeing packaged bread sales slide the same-old products. “While sales have been stagnant
1.0% to $2.49 billion while private label remained rela- in recent years, bread is ubiquitous in the US,” the Mintel
tively flat, off 0.7% to $2.04 billion. La Brea Bakery, Los report noted. “Manufacturers seeking to drive gains with
Angeles, experienced a slight decline in sales as well.
new products could consider developing more competiIRI noted Hostess sales were off 52% to $353.9 million tively priced whole grain breads that are high in fiber
in year-over-year comparisons. Just on a branded basis, and relatively low in calories and sodium. Such options
that means some $350 million in sales changed hands in are likely to resonate with parents, a key segment for
the retail bread category alone since Hostess shut down bread marketers, as well as those in the rapidly growing
late last year, and that’s not counting what the company baby boomer segment.”

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