FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 15, 2002

THIRTEEN DAWN FACILITIES SCORE SUPERIOR IN AIB INSPECTIONS
Mexico City Distribution Center Earns Superior Ranking in Inaugural Inspection

Dawn Food Products, Inc. announced that 13 of its facilities recently achieved Superior Ratings in their annual inspections conducted by the American Institute of Baking (AIB). Dawn's Mexico City distribution center scored impressive 980 points out of 1000 in its first ever inspection from the AIB.

The 12 other Dawn facilities include manufacturing plants located in Atlanta, Georgia; Crown Point, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; and York, Pennsylvania and distribution centers located in Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; Medley, Florida; New Albany, Indiana; Raleigh, North Carolina, San Francisco, California and Union City, California.

Dawn's facilities in Denver, Colorado; Edison, New Jersey; Eveshire, United Kingdom; Houston, Texas; Jackson, Michigan; and Salt Lake City, Utah all received excellent ratings from the AIB.

The American Institute of Baking judges manufacturing and distribution facilities based on food safety, sanitation and operational methods in a manufacturing environment.

"We are extremely proud of these AIB ratings," said Max Waagner, Director of Environmental Control with Dawn Food Products. "The credit goes to Dawn's people, who strive to be better every day, to help make our facilities the safest, cleanest and most productive, and to help make Dawn the best bakery supplier in the business."

Dawn Food Products, Inc. is one of the world's largest bakery manufacturers and distributors as well as one of the nation's oldest manufacturers of bakery mixes and bases. Since 1920, Dawn's dedicated employees, outstanding products and valued customers have made the Dawn name synonymous with excellence. American-owned and operated, Dawn currently supplies a complete line of quality, consistent mixes, bases, icings, glazes, fillings, frozen dough, par-baked and fully baked products and equipment to the food industry worldwide.

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