Flowers “begun Koffee Kup Bakery takeover talks in April”
The acquisition by the US giant has frustrated a rival that thought it was set to buy the closed Vermont baker.
Flowers Foods
Mrs Dunster’s “shock” at Koffee Kup Bakery sale to Flowers Foods
The Canadian group thought it was set to buy regional US peer Koffee Kup Bakery.
Flowers Foods moves in for local US peer Koffee Kup Bakery
A rival had said it was the “preferred purchaser” of the closed Koffee Kup Bakery.
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