Flowers Foods, the Georgia-based packaged bakery goods specialist, has been named ‘best-managed’ food company among Forbes magazine’s 400 Best Big Companies in America.

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Forbes editors selected Flowers Foods as the ‘best of the best’ among the 18 companies in the food, drink, and tobacco category that made it on to its annual list of the 400 Best Big Companies.


“To be selected the ‘best of the best’ among our peers by Forbes is indeed an honour,” said Flower Foods chairman, CEO and president George E. Deese. “It recognises not just the operating strength of Flowers Foods and the efforts of our entire team, but also the effectiveness of our long-term strategies in building value for our shareholders.”


The Best-Managed list and the 400 Best Big Companies list appeared in the edition of Forbes published on 8 January.

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