Large Commercial Bakeries' Sales per Employee in the U.S. Average $150,000.

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The US bakery industry has about 2,600 commercial bakeries, with combined annual revenue of $25 billion, and 7,000 small retail bakeries, with $2 billion total revenue. Large companies include Interstate Bakeries (filed for Chapter 11) and Flowers Foods, plus divisions of companies such as Sara Lee, Nabisco, and Best Foods. The industry is highly concentrated: three companies produce almost 45 percent of industry sales. Over 75 percent of baked goods come from 380 large facilities, each having over $45 million in revenue and over 100 employees. Although big companies may operate dozens of bakeries, the typical baker operates just one facility.

Demand comes from commercial entities, such as restaurants and specialty food and grocery stores that don't have their own bakeries. Profitability for individual companies is determined by efficiency of operations and favorable material prices. Large companies have scale advantages in procurement, production, and distribution. Large commercial bakeries' sales per employee average $150,000. Small companies can compete by offering specialty goods or superior distribution services.

Baking is a low-technology business that produces low-priced products from commodity ingredients. Fifty percent of industry volume is from baked breads, mainly white, wheat and rye; 20 percent from rolls, buns, muffins, bagels and croissants; 11 percent from soft cakes; and the rest from pies, pastries, doughnuts and a variety of sweet goods.

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