Doughnuts or Donuts

[xoxoxoBruce]

THE BALTIMORE SUN
March 22nd, 1996

A Jessup manufacturing plant - a longtime supplier of bakery equipment to such companies as Tastykake Inc. and Entenmann's Bakery will close its doors today, leaving most of its 100 workers in search of jobs.

The Donut Corporation of America (DCA), which has baking ingredient and equipment operations throughout the world, has operated a Howard County plant for 76 years, starting in Ellicott City in 1920 and moving to Jessup in 1970.

But Kerry Ingredients, the Beloit, Wis., parent of DCA, decided in January to get out of the equipment manufacturing business and focus on making bakery ingredients, a DCA official said.
As a result, the company is shutting down the Jessup operation, which also manufactured fuel cells, floor plates and other equipment parts for the Department of Defense.