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One of Flowers’ long-term strategies has been to invest capital to continually improve our bakeries.As a result, we believe we have the most efficient bakeries in the industry and enjoy the advantage of being the low-cost producer of quality baked foods in the market. We have invested in information systems that allow us to partner with our customers in new and mutually profitable ways, and we have invested in our workforce so they are trained to handle the latest baking and computer technology. 

Our bakery improvement efforts continued in 2003 with the instal- lation of a new donut line in our London, Ky., bakery that produces 1,700 donuts per minute.This line not only lowers our production costs, but it also improves the quality and consistency of our donuts.We installed a more efficient line in our Goldsboro, N.C., bakery that can produce 600 buns per minute. In Batesville, Ark., we are in the midst of a multi-million dollar project reconfiguring the bakery’s production lines so they are more efficient.Work also began on transforming a facility in Denton,Texas, into a state-of- the-art bakery that will bring us much needed capacity to serve the Dallas/Ft.Worth market. 

