	flowers industries flo sees lower year net flowers industries inc said it expects lower ings for the current year due to operating losses incurred by recent acquisitions and possible nonrecurring losses resulting from its restructuring efforts for the year ended june flowers ed mln dlrs today it reported nine month ings of mln dlrs down from mln dlrs a year before flowers said it expects fiscal however to show the best growth in profits in its history due to the growing profitability of ongoing businesses cost control efforts higher productvitiy and lower taxes flowers said losses suffered in its west texas operations and in five plants acquired at the start of the third quarter from cfs staley continental and wolf baking co severely hurt results it said the cfs and wolf plants are expected to be contributing to profit by the end of the fiscal year and it is seeking to bring the west texas operations to acceptable levels of profitability by the end of the fourth quarter as well reuter 
