Milling & Baking News - April 15, 2014 - 50

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 2004
In announcing a loss during the third quarter ended
March 6 and not long after
suspending its cash dividend,
Interstate Bakeries Corp. said
it needed to take additional
steps to stabilize its financial
situation.
Marking a dramatic reversal
from forecasts earlier this
year, American Italian Pasta
Co. is projecting earnings to
decline slightly in fiscal 2004
from last year.
"The flour milling industry
has lost 100 million cwts of
production in the six years
since per capita consumption peaked.
That is over
$100 million
in lost margin
contribution.
For bakers, the
losses have
Gillcrist
been in the
many hundreds
of millions. A production
promotion program that
minimizes this downward
trend and helps us regain lost
ground could reward the industry with a payback many
times over."

John Gillcrist, chairman, North American
Millers' Association

Journal of the American Dietetic
Association, nutritionist Dean
Ornish responded, "Not yet!"
In his paper, "Was Dr. Atkins
Right?," Dr. Ornish presents
what he calls an "evidencebased rationale" for optimal
nutrition, seeking to find
common ground in the contradictory information about
different diets.
Fred A. Cholick, dean of
the College of
Agriculture at
South Dakota
State University, has been
Cholick
named dean
of the Kansas
State University College of
Agriculture.
Charles Bell, president and
chief operating officer of McDonald's Corp.,
was elected
chief executive
officer by the
board of directors after James
R. Cantalupo,
Bell
chairman and
c.e.o., died unexpectedly of a heart attack.

 1984

sales strategies was announced
by the company's board of
directors. Dale C. Putman, a
member of the I.B.C. staff since
1976 and its president and chief
executive officer, has resigned
from that office.
A management succession
program initiated at Flowers
Industries, Inc. in 1976 has
created one of the youngest
top-level management teams
ever to head a major wholesale baking company. Average
age of the top four executives
under Langdon S. Flowers,
chairman of the board, is 43.
A moment of silence and remembrance was declared at
the opening of the American
Bakers Association board of
governors meeting last week
in memory of Leslie Marion
(Pete) Murphy, chairman of
Mother Murphy's Labs, Inc.,
Greensboro, N.C. Mr. Murphy, 76, died April 15.
Savannah Foods & Industries
Inc., a major cane sugar refiner,
announced April 10 it had entered into an agreement to buy
Michigan Sugar Co., Saginaw,
Mich., a leading beet sugar
producer, for $65 million.

Michael Braude
has been named
president and
chief executive
officer of the
Kansas City
Board of Trade.
Braude

The Flowers
Ideal Baking Co. plant at
Paris, Texas, was extensively
damaged by fire early April 1.

At the A.B.A. annual meeting at the Phoenician resort in
Scottsdale were Fred and Debbie Springer, Burford Corp.,
Maysville, Okla.

Strategy for growth at Ronco
Foods Co., the Memphisbased pasta producer acquired in 1982 by The CocaCola Co., is outlined in the
parent company's annual
report for fiscal 1983.

Shortly before his death, Robert Atkins wrote, "At what
point am I allowed to say, 'I
told you so'?" In an article
in the current issue of the

A major realignment of the
headquarters staff of Interstate
Bakeries Corp. aimed at reducing overhead while increasing
emphasis on marketing and

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Executives of Simonds-ShieldsTheis Grain Co. honored for
100th year in the grain business include, from left, seated, J.
Frank Baumgartner, president,
and Willis C. Theis, chairman,
standing Willis C. Theis Jr.,
president of the company's clearing corporation, and Stephen O.
Theis, company vice-president.

1944
The May issue of Food Facts,
published by the Wheat Flour

Institute, presents interesting
stories from war correspondents on the manner in which
World War II is strengthening appreciation of enriched
white flour and white bread.
Carl D. McKenzie, president
and general
manager of the
McKenzie Milling Co., has
been elected
president and
chairman of the
McKenzie
board of the
Millers' National Federation.
J.J. Ross, 77 years old, president of the J.J. Ross Mill
Furnishing Co. of Portland,
Ore., died April 14 from injuries sustained when he fell in
the yard of his home earlier
in the week, suffering a fractured skull.
Owing to the threat of invasion by the Russian armies,
Romania is speeding up
shipments of wheat and
other foods to Germany,
while Hungary is also being
combed for food supplies.
Practically all mills of the
United States with a daily
capacity of 500 bbls or more
are equipped to enrich flour,
according to a survey made
by the Millers' National Federation.
Silvanus H. Stoltzfus, 56, president and general manager of
the General Mill Equipment
Co., Inc., Kansas City, died
suddenly and unexpectedly at
his home here April 19 from a
heart attack. Mr. Stoltzfus had
been at his office the day before and had been in excellent
spirits. Death came while he
was shaving.
From Southwestern Trade
Notes: Members of the office
and elevator staff of the Continental Grain Co., Kansas City,
held a surprise "get together"
on the occasion of the 50th
birthday anniversary of Gustave Eisemann, vice-president
and manager, and presented
him with a traveling bag. MBN
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