10 Food and Beverage Products Made in Jacksonville
November 10, 2015 5 comments
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What does Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, packaged grocery store vegetables, blended coffee beans, fresh bread, candy and sausage links have in common? Other than being edible, their also produced in and distributed from Jacksonville in some level of capacity. Here's the story behind ten sites where this takes place.
5. Flowers Baking Company
The Flowers Baking Company began with brothers William Howard and Joseph Hampton Flowers opening their first bakery in Thomasville, GA in 1919. Growth led to expansion opportunities, including the opening of a Jacksonville bakery along the S-Line and Myrtle Avenue, just west of downtown. In need of more space, the company opened a bakery at 2261 West 30th Street in 1965. At the time, it was the company’s second plant ever built from the ground up. The Jacksonville bakery distributes products as far north as Hilton Head, SC, to as south as Melbourne, FL.
Today, Flower Baking Company operates more than 40 highly efficient bakeries and is one of the largest producers of packaged bakery foods in the United States. At the Northwest Jacksonville bakery, 1.5 million pounds of bread is produced each week. In addition to freshly baked bread under the Sunbeam and Nature’s Own brands, the Jacksonville bakery makes buns, rolls, snack cakes, and tortillas. Employing 200, the Jacksonville bakery’s commercial clients include Burger King and Hardee’s restaurant chains.
For more information, visit: http://www.flowersfoods.com/
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