date:Feb 26, 2013
ctober 2010. Under the agreement, Bimbo was required to divest assets from eight markets because of anti-competitive concerns by the federal government.
Four of the eight markets involved are in California, including Los Angeles, where the D.O.J. had estimated the Sara Lee acquisition would give B.B.U. a 59% market share; San Diego, 63%; San Francisco, 56%; and Sacramento, 59%. In October 2012, Flowers announced the United States Department of Justice had approved an agreement for Flowers to a