DDFC supplies over 500 individually owned & operated "Daylight Donuts" shops in 30 states and 6 countries and is steadily gr...owing at the rate of 3 to 4 shops every month. Its solid growth can be traced back to 1954, when Tommy and Lucille Day founded the company, adding "light" to their last name to describe the texture and flavor of their popular donut flour mixes. The Days produced their...
Tommy and Lucille Day established the Daylight Donut Flour Company, which operates as Daylight Donuts, in 1954. By the 1960s, the company s sales had increased so much that a new facility was constructed and more employees were hired. By 1977, there were more than 200 donut shops and a fleet of trucks to make deliveries. By its 50-year anniversary in 2004, the company had opened more than 900...