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Franz is committed to working with employees, customers, and neighbors in practicing sustainability and green business strategies. Franz Bakery’s environmentally friendly business practices revolve around keeping water clean, conserving and using clean energy sources, recycling/reducing packaging, and maintaining fuel efficiency through all distribution channels.

PORTLAND, Ore. – April 5, 2010 – Franz Bakery, the largest independent, family-owned bakery on the West Coast, has increased its distribution in the state of Montana. Franz’s breads and baked goods, currently available in Missoula, are now also available in Billings at Costco, Albertson’s and Wal-Mart. Franz Bakery offers a wide variety of fresh bread, buns, bagels, cookies, and pastries, baked fresh every day.

PORTLAND, Ore. – March 9, 2010 – Franz Bakery, the largest independent, family-owned bakery on the West Coast, has donated more than $1,800 to the Portland-area Ronald McDonald House Charities. The two local houses, in Oregon and Southwest Washington, will use the gift from Franz to support the organization’s facilities and activities.

To raise money, Franz sold wide pan bread loaves and packages of cookies for one dollar each at the Northwest Women’s Show in Portland. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the event’s bread and cookie sale went directly to the organization.

PORTLAND, Ore. – December 2, 2009 – Franz Bakery, the largest independent, family-owned bakery on the West Coast, has received an Energy Champion award for achieving more than 250,000 million Btu total energy savings or more than 15 percent total energy savings at its facility in Portland, Ore. To receive this recognition, Franz Bakery completed a Save Energy Now energy assessment with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) in 2008.