Hostess Brands, Inc.

Hostess opens more bakeries; Twinkie operations to start in May

2013-04-29 13:52:00

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. Crack open the Ho Hos and Twinkies you’ve been hoarding. The new Hostess Brands said Monday that it would open bakeries in Indianapolis, Indiana and Illinois. The...

PBR parent a lead bidder for Twinkies, other Hostess cake brands

2013-01-29 10:04:00

The dismantling of Hostess Brands Inc. continued this week as bidders, including the owner of Pabst Brewing Co., emerged to buy the bankrupt company’s bread and cake brands. C. Dean Metropoulos & Co., the private equity firm that owns the...

Hostess to sell Wonder Bread, other brands for $390 million

2013-01-12 10:27:00

Hostess Brands Inc. agreed to sell many of its bread brands – including Wonder and Nature’s Pride – to rival bakery business Flowers Foods as the liquidating company prepares to shut itself down. Flowers, which owns the Tastykake and...

Judge approves Hostess liquidation, 15,000 immediate layoffs

2012-11-21 13:48:00

Hostess Brands Inc. will start selling off the rights to Twinkies, Ding Dongs and other baked brands after a federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved its plan for an “orderly wind-down.” The company will also start shrinking its...

Daum: Hostess is the Republican Party

2012-11-22 00:00:00

Wednesday, just two weeks after the election all but declared an end to white male dominance, yet another nail was driven into the wood-paneled coffin of old-fashioned America. Hostess Brands, maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, announced that even...

With Hostess closing down, local workers lose their jobs

2012-11-22 11:12:37

Twinkies' demise proves the stupidity of U.S. labor relations

2012-11-21 05:02:00

The Great American Twinkie Crisis illuminates what is wrong with the relationship between management and labor in this country. Hostess, the company that since the 1930s has provided our nation with snacks that are nearly indestructible, now threatens...

Hostess, union mediation fails; Twinkies return to chopping block

2012-11-20 16:20:00

Looks like it’ll be a bake sale after all. Hostess Brands Inc. said Tuesday afternoon that mediation efforts with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers Union were about as successful as a Twinkie without the cream filling. That...

Wal-Mart, Kroger said to be bidding for Twinkies maker Hostess

2012-12-14 08:17:00

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Ralph’s owner Kroger Co. and Sara Lee parent Grupo Bimbo are all said to be in the running to buy up assets from liquidating Twinkies maker Hostess, according to a report this week. The companies, along with Midwest baked...

My Hostess envy

2012-11-21 00:00:00

In my childhood, Hostess snack foods loomed as the symbol of freedom. Freedom from the cruel health food regimen and ethnic dietary peculiarities of my keepers. Freedom to eat and dance and flirt and wear loafers and be cute and silly and utterly...

Twinkies hope? Hostess puts off liquidation, agrees to mediation

2012-11-19 13:25:00

There may be hope for Twinkies after all: Hostess Brands Inc. and its striking union agreed to a mediation that will forestall the company’s planned liquidation for the time being. At a bankruptcy court hearing Monday in New York, 82-year-old...

Twinkies may survive after all!

2012-11-19 10:46:00

Twinkies may survive after all. And Twinkie hoarders -- you know who you are! -- might get all the credit. Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and other�Hostess�snack delights�have been flying off supermarket shelves ever since it was revealed last week that...

Hostess sold Wonder Bread and other bakery brands to Flowers Foods for $390 million

2013-01-12 10:32:48

It's not just that faux-creaminess and the many ritual ways to eat it (scoop out the filling first?; eat it like an ear of corn or like a hot dog?). It's the deeply useful metaphor of "Twinkies," a word describing something foolish and empty-calorie inconsequential.

2012-12-17 12:00:12

Hostess -- the maker of Twinkies, Zingers, Ho Hos and Ding Dongs -- has gone bankrupt and is liquidating its assets, but it may be too soon to say so long to its cream-filled confections. Big-name companies are sniffing out the possibility of gobbling up the Irving, Texas-based Hostess' brands.

2012-12-11 00:00:00