Business of Food & Beverage

Flowers Foods Closing Bun Bakery in Baton Rouge

July 31, 2024

The closing will begin Sept. 15; 51-100 employees will be affected.

Flowers Foods has filed notice to close manufacturing operations at a bun bakery in Baton Rouge, La.

The huge baking company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) with the state of Louisiana that the bakery will begin closing Sept. 15. 51-100 employees will be affected.

Plant Manager Darin Allen wrote to the state that the closure was part of “efforts to optimize capacity” throughout the supply chain network of Flowers bakeries and the “ability of other Flowers bakeries to assume the current Baton Rouge production” – that according to WAFB Channel 9.

The TV station also said Flowers will continue to use the site for shipping throughout Louisiana.

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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.