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FWIW Bimbo (a Mexican company) is the largest baking company in north america -- when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be fro
by gumby 2y ago
FWIW Bimbo (a Mexican company) is the largest baking company in north america -- when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label (https://bimbobakeriesusa.com/our-brands https://bimbobakeriesusa.com/our-brands)
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoWhy are some of their brands just pictures of sandwiches?
- lotsofpulp 2y agoWhatever the 7th row, 4th column is, it does not look appetizing.
- gumby 2y agoI don't know, cinnamon bread french toast with sauteed apricots and cockroaches is a mix of carbs, fiber and protein, though probably should have more protein for a better nutritional balance.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoThey added the cockroaches to get the protein count up.
- fouc 2y agolooks like pecan nuts
- gumby 2y agoThat’s just the vegan version.
- orange_fritter 2y agoThere's probably just some ~Wordpress dev who picked from a selection of B-Roll. The CEO probably marginally understands bread and isn't a raisin french toast peanut butter freak.
- Washuu 2y ago> raisin french toast peanut butter freak I want this so badly right now.
- Jtsummers 2y agoThey're filling out the grid. There are 31 brands (if I counted correctly) which doesn't fill out any grid other than 1x31 or 31x1. They filled it out to 40 because that gives a nice grid at the larger size (4x10) and smaller windows (2x20) while not leaving any empty spaces. If they kept it with 31 there'd be empty space at any reasonable column count (2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Past 4-6 columns it starts getting too busy across the screen (subjective). They seem to have capped it at 4, it drops to 2 and then 1 as you narrow the page. One filler image works at each of those sizes, but then it's odd to have a single filler image. Pushing it to 9 gives a ratio approaching 3:1 brand:filler images, someone looked at that and said "That looks better". The filler images are placed, it appears, next to their associated brand (the cupcakes and Sara Lee, as an example).
- thfuran 2y agoBut cropping to circle/hexagon and offsetting alternate rows, with three rows of five between four of four, obviates the need for weird filler sandwiches. Then you can just tell people with other screen sizes to go away to somewhere with less perfection.
- globular-toast 2y agoIn other words, 31 is prime ;)
- givemeethekeys 2y agoMaybe this is why all these breads use such a large list of ingredients that don't sound like food.
- floxy 2y ago>when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label Are those those the only brands they produce? I only recognize 3 of those brands, and I can't even be sure I've ever eaten more than one of those. Maybe they are big only in certain regions?
- aendruk 2y agoI had the same reaction; recognize 3, knowingly eaten 2 (decades ago), purchased 0. It’s surprising to hear that this is the largest bakery in the US. Maybe bakeries localize well so none grow very large?
- dragonwriter 2y ago> Are those those the only brands they produce? No, the five brands explicitly marked as a non-exhaustive list (with “such as”) are not, even close to, all of their brands. https://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/our-brands https://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/our-brands
- kristopolous 2y agoThis reminds me of Georgia Pacific or JAB (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company) You walk down the aisle and think there's 4 or 5 companies in say, paper towels, competing for your business but it's probably just 1 with different brands. Last time I checked, Whole Foods where I am carried Peet's, Stumptown, Intelligentsia and Keurig coffee, which is all just a single company. Probably comes in on the same truck. All you gotta do is literally just have different printed labels on things, Look at sunscreen and cough medicine next time you go in.
- floxy 2y agoYour link is the same as the one gumby posted. I'm not seeing a listing of 5 brands, and Ctrl-f for "such as" results in 0 matches. On that page, I see 31 brands listed: Thomas, Sara Lee, Brownberry, Oroweat (sic), Entenmann's, Arnold, Lender's, Little Bites, Ball Park, Bays, Marinela, Bimbo, Maier's, Beefsteak, Boboli, The Cheesecake Factory, Mrs Baird's, Heiner's, Emmy's Organics, Grandma Sycamore's, Tia Rosa, Stroehmann, Nature's Harvest, Freihofer's, Wholesome Harvest, Goldminer, The Rustik Oven, Grace Baking, San Luis Sourdough, Alfaro's, and Tenderflake. Is this getting close to all of their brands?
- mgh2 2y agoWhat if it is a warning to whomever can die from it? "This food was processed in a facility that contained nuts, milk, etc."
- ASalazarMX 2y agoAs a Mexican, I'm still salty with Bimbo because I went to Spain, and they sold there better, bigger Bimbo-brand sliced bread than here, including varieties without crust. It takes guts to keep the brand name in English-speaking contries, though. > The name was formed as the combination of the Disney Bambi and Dumbo films names, which were the favourite movies of Marinela, Lorenzo Servitje's daughter. Later, the founders would find out that bimbo is an Italian slang for children (shortened from bambino), and that in China the word for bread (面包, miànbāo) is similar to the name of the brand.
- gumby 2y ago> It takes guts to keep the brand name in English-speaking contries, though. I think they mostly only sell bimbo-branded goods in spanish language shops (where the brand would help sell). In, say, Safeway you only see the US brands they have acquired, at least where I live.
- demondemidi 2y agoDave’s killer Bread and Franz are both made in Portland Oregon are not part of Bimbo. I love my city.
- dehugger 2y agoDave's Killer Bread is out favorite :) The one time I've been in Portland we were drunkenly stumbling back to our hotel when we came across the Franz factory. We spent so long watching the production through the windows that security came and told us to move along! it was absolutely fascinating.
- seatac76 2y agoOhh wow, TIL. This is like that P&G chart, where in one mega corp just acquired majority brands in a business.