LENDER'S MOVING IN WITH GENERAL FOODS

BAY SHORE, N.Y. -- Lender's Bagel Bakery, West Haven, Conn., is moving its headquarters operations to the home of General Foods Bakery Cos. here.

bakery professionals," said George B. Murphy, president of GF Bakeries.

"All manufacturing and distribution will remain in place as it is," said Barry Ansell, executive vice president of sales and business development for Lender's.

Ansell said the company's three other facilities -- a distribution center in West Haven and manufacturing sites in West Haven and New Haven, Conn. -- won't be affected. The move is scheduled to be completed May 1. Lender's and General Foods Bakery are subsidiaries of General Foods USA, which is an operating group of Kraft General Foods, the multinational food business of Philip Morris Cos.