Panera Bread: expands Board of Directors

St. Louis / MO. (pbc) Sandwich and bakery chain Panera Bread Company announced that it has appointed two new independent directors to its Board of Directors: W. Austin Ligon, co-founder and former President and Chief Executive Officer of CarMax, Incorporated and Charles J. Chapman III, Chief Operating Officer of American Dairy Queen Corporation, which has over 4.700 locations and is a division of Berkshire-Hathaway, Incorporated. With the addition of Ligon and Chapman, Panera´s Board will be expanded from four directors to six directors, five of whom are independent.

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