Bidders for the recently closed Koffee Kup Bakery and subsidiary Vermont Bread Co. are mulling a lawsuit after a court-appointed receiver accepted a last-minute offer Monday to sell the businesses to Flowers Foods, a $4.4 billion maker of national.
Canadian baker to buy Koffee Kup, Vermont Bread Co. facilities
A Koffee Kup Bakery truck outside the Vermont Bread Co. in Brattleboro on Tuesday. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
The Koffee Kup Bakery in Burlington, seen on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, abruptly laid off most of its employees and shuttered the plant. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
Modified: 5/27/2021 10:24:12 PM
Atlantic Canada’s largest family-owned bakery is buying the recently closed Koffee Kup Bakery of Burlington and subsidiary Vermont Bread Co. of Brattleboro.
Mrs. Dunster’s, a New Brunswick distributor of baked goods across the Maritime Provinces and in Maine, announced its purchase Thursday just hours after receiving approval for incentive money from the Vermont state government to reopen the nearly century-old business.
BRATTLEBORO â More than 90 employees at Vermont Bread Company in Cotton Mill are without jobs today, according to a notice filed with the Vermont Department of Labor.
âIn accordance with any obligations under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act this letter is to inform you that Koffee Kup Bakery, Inc. and its subsidiary Vermont Bread Company . has announced that it will be terminating all operations, effective April 26, 2021,â wrote Jeff Sands in the notice.
Sands is the senior advisor in North America for American Industrial Acquisition Corporation, which acquired a majority of the shares of Koffee Kup on April 1.
The Reformer received information Monday morning from an employee that when he showed up for work he was told to go home because the facility was closed.
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