Flowers Foods Inc. (Flowers; NYSE: FLO) ratings are unaffected by today's announcement that it has executed a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned ButterKrust Bakery (ButterKrust) for approximately $90 million.

THOMASVILLE, Ga., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Flowers Foods today reported sales of $475.2 million for its 12-week third quarter ended October 6, 2007, a 7.7% increase over the $441.1 million reported for the third quarter last year.

THOMASVILLE, Ga., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Flowers Foods today reported sales of $477.8 million for its 12-week second quarter ended on July 14, 2007, a 7.2% increase over the $445.8 million reported for the second quarter last year.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed its ratings on Flowers Foods Inc. (Flowers, NYSE:FLO) as follows: --Issuer Default Rating (IDR) 'BBB'; --Senior unsecured credit facility 'BBB'. The Rating Outlook is Stable. At the quarter ended April 21, 2007, Flowers had approximately $60 million of debt.

THOMASVILLE, Ga., May 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Flowers Foods today reported sales of $609.9 million for its 16-week first quarter ended on April 21, 2007, an 8.2% increase over the $563.6 million reported for the first quarter last year.