Editing Interstate Bakeries (section)

=== <span class="anchor" id="Interstate Bakeries Corporation (1930)"></span><span class="anchor" id="Interstate Brands (1969)"></span> Interstate Bakeries and Interstate Brands ===
The company has its roots in Nafziger Bakeries, founded by [[Ralph Leroy Nafziger]] in a church basement at 6th and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City in 1905. Nafziger expanded the bakeries and bought out competitors. In 1925 he sold Nafziger to Purity Bakeries<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SWOmAAAAIAAJ&q=Nafziger+Purity+Bakeries&pg=PA129|title=Combination in the American Bread-Baking Industry: With Some Observations on ... - Combination in the American Bread-Baking Industry - Google Books|date=December 1, 1924|publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=9780804703345|access-date=November 23, 2012}}</ref> (which became American Bakeries) and acquired a controlling interest in [[Schulze Baking Company]] and its [[Butternut Breads]] brand.<ref name="hogan1">{{cite web|last=Hogan|first=Greg|title=Twinkies Wrapped in Pantyhose|url=http://hostessbrands.com/Closed.aspx|publisher=Hostess|access-date=November 17, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118030617/http://hostessbrands.com/Closed.aspx|archive-date=November 18, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 1930 Nafziger announced the formation of the Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC) with the merger of Schulze Bakery and the seven bakers of Western Bakeries of Los Angeles to become the fifth largest baker in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|author=[Displaying Abstract]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/03/14/archives/to-offer-23141-shares-interstate-bakeries-to-market-issue-of.html|title=TO OFFER 23,141 SHARES. - Interstate Bakeries to Market Issue of Preferred at $96. |work=New York Times|date=June 10, 2012|access-date=November 23, 2012}}</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19300331&id=3ekxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uuIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3628,6425617 Reading Eagle - March 31, 1930]</ref> The company sold Butternut bread, wrapped in [[gingham]], to grocery stores.<ref name="hogan1"/>

Schulze and Western continued to operate separately under the Interstate [[Umbrella organization|umbrella]] until 1937, when they merged with Interstate Bakeries.<ref>{{cite web|author=[Displaying Abstract]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/09/23/archives/bakery-merger-nears-plans-to-consolidate-interstate-and-schulze.html|title=BAKERY MERGER NEARS - Plans to Consolidate Interstate and Schulze Concerns Made - Article - New York Times|work=New York Times|date=June 10, 2012|access-date=November 23, 2012}}</ref><ref name="IDC_v38">[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Interstate-Bakeries-Corporation-Company-History.html  International Directory of Company Histories], Vol. 38. St. James Press, 2001 (via fundingverse.com)</ref> In 1943 Interstate acquired the Supreme Baking Company of [[Los Angeles]], and in 1950 it bought the O'Rourke Baking Company of [[Buffalo, New York]].
[[File:Youll like Butter-Nut Enriched Bread.jpg|thumb|alt=Postcard advertisement with a painted, wrapped loaf of bread|Butter-Nut bread package, 1930–1945]]
Acquisitions during the 1950s and early 1960s included the Ambrosia, Remar, Butter Cream,  Campbell-Sell and Schall Tasty baking companies, the Kingston Cake and Cobb's Sunlit bakeries, Sweetheart Bread Company and Hart's Bakeries.<ref name="IDC_v38" /> In the late 1960s IBC acquired Millbrook Bread, Shawano Farms and the Baker and Shawano canning companies.<ref name="IDC_v38"/> In 1969 IBC changed its name to Interstate Brands, with its signature brands Butternut and Blue Seal breads and Dolly Madison cakes; Butternut Breads had been in business since 1902.<ref name="IDC_v38"/>