NORWALK, OH — The year was 1995. Tilmon “Tim” Brown was 50 years old and certain he was ready to retire. At least, that’s what his calloused hands were telling him.
He’d worked those hands hard in nearly every facet of the baking industry and was rounding out 30 years with Continental Baking, working at its Ralston headquarters in St. Louis, MO, as corporate VP of sales. Instead of taking the retirement route, though, he got in on a deal to acquire a 28-year-old bakery.
A quarter-century later, Brown is chairman of Norwalk, OH-based New Horizons Bakery and is now part of the next class to be inducted into the American Society of Baking’s Baking Hall of Fame.