National wholesale baker leases warehouse

Business Today

SCOTT CITY -- Wonder Bread and Hostess Cakes will soon have a new warehouse facility in the Cape Girardeau area. Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place Ltd., has announced the national wholesale food company has leased a warehouse and office building at 1301 Warner St. in Scott City.

Kelsey said the new 5,000-square-foot facility would headquarter the bread and cake division's distributing operation for much of the Southeast Missouri region.

Wonder Bread is part of Interstate Bakeries Corp. (IBC). With headquarters in Kansas City, IBC is the largest national wholesale baker and distributor of fresh delivered bread and snack cakes in the United States. It has 34,000 employees at 63 bakeries, including one in St. Louis.