Tolleson Employee Handbook

If you are a new employee, you also will have received a special fact sheet that offers a snapshot of Flowers Foods as a whole and highlights special team member programs. Please be sure to review this sheet.

ABOUT FLOWERS FOODS AND THE COMPANY

Headquartered in Thomasville, GA., Flowers Foods is one of the nation’s leading producers and marketers of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers. Among the Company’s top brands are Nature’s Own, Dave’s Killer Bread, Canyon Bakehouse, Wonder Bread, Mrs. Freshley’s and Tastykake. Each bakery operates as a separate subsidiary of Flowers Foods and has its own leadership, including, but not limited to, General Manager, Human Resources Business Partner, and Controller. These bakeries produce, market, and/or distribute fresh bakery products through a direct-store-delivery system that serves 85^ of the U.S. population. Flowers Foods’ bakeries also produce and distribute fresh snack cakes and frozen breads and rolls nationally through warehouse distribution. For more information, visit www.flowersfoods.com. Holsum Bakery was founded in 1881 when the city of Phoenix was incorporated. A German immigrant named Edward Eisele purchased the old Phoenix Bakery. At first, Edward baked and delivered his goods by himself, but later had to acquire a partner for his growing business. Together they were producing and selling about 200 loaves of bread daily. In 1929, the bakery moved to Washington and 7 th Avenue and the brand name HOLSUM was purchased from the W.E. Long Company of Chicago, giving the former Phoenix Bakery the exclusive right to the HOLSUM name in this area. Business and Phoenix continued to grow and in 1947, the Phoenix plant (23 rd Ave and Lincoln Street) was built on the west side of town. In 1999 the Tolleson Bakery was built to service markets on the West Coast. Today we have an elaborate distribution system to take our quality products to every city, town, and trading post in Arizona, as well as Nevada, California, and parts of New Mexico. Holsum Bakery merged with Flowers Foods, headquartered in Thomasville, Ga in 2008 and has been a part of the Flowers Family since.

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