Bakery

Mexico's Grupo Bimbo won the Beefsteak bread brand in an auction on Thursday from bankrupt company Hostess Brands Inc, after outbidding rival Flowers Foods Inc with an offer for $31.9 million, Hostess said. …

A delivery truck stocked with Berger cookies rolled out of the Cherry Hill bakery Monday morning for the first time in more than a month. The well-known sweets are finally back in stores after Berger’s closure by the Baltimore City Health Department Jan. 31; the bakery was closed for operating without a city-issued food-service license. …

Serfass Construction of Allentown said it was recently awarded the contract to construct the first of what is expected to be a series of French bakeries for The Artisan Bakery & Café LLC. The bakery will be located at the Sands Casino Bethlehem on the first floor of the Shoppes at the Sands. The 2,000 square-foot fit-out will start by April 1 and will be completed in about 90 days. …

ConAgra Foods, Cargill and CHS announced today a definitive agreement to combine their North American flour milling businesses to form Ardent Mills, a new flour milling company that will serve customers in the baking and food industries. …

The next application deadline for the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association™ (IDDBA) scholarship program is April 1, 2013. …