Dawn Food Products, Inc. Acquires Brothers Baking Co. Fort Wayne, Indiana Division

JACKSON, MI - Dawn Food Products, Inc. is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of the Fort Wayne, Ind., operations of Brothers Baking Company, Inc., a wholesale baking company with headquarters in Edwardsburg, Mich.

The 22,000-square-foot facility, located just south of Fort Wayne, will allow Dawn to expand and improve its frozen dough operations, including laminated doughs for Danish, cinnamon rolls and other sweet goods.

"In determining what facility would help Dawn continue our mission of being the leading bakery supplier to the retail, in-store, and wholesale segments, the Brothers Baking, Inc. acquisition made the most sense," said John C. Nally, President of Dawn Foods North America.

Dawn currently operates 28 state-of-the-art manufacturing plants and distribution facilities throughout the United States, serving bakery retail, in-store, and wholesale operations.

With plants in Jackson, Mich.; Louisville, Ky.; Denver, Colo.; Crown Point, Ind.; York, Pa.; Douglasville, Ga.; Saint Peter, Ill.; the United Kingdom and Mexico; Dawn Food Products, Inc. is one of the world's largest bakery distributors and the nation's oldest manufacturer of bakery mixes and bases. Dawn currently supplies a complete line of high-quality, consistent mixes, bases, icings, glazes, fillings, frozen dough, par-baked and fully-baked products and equipment to the food industry, worldwide.

For further information, please contact Dawn Food Products, Inc. at 2021 Micor Drive, Jackson, MI 49203; phone: (800) 248-1144 or (517) 789-4400; fax: (517) 789-4465; website: www.dawnfoods.com.