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Hmmm...didn't realize that Dolly Madison was a subsidiary of Hostess. Probably should have known this but didn't for sure.

I didn't know either until all this went down.

Get used to stories like this...US going to hell.

Watch 2016.

Mentioned this earlier, but Dolly Madison management ran Dolly Madison out of business, and Hostess bought the label, and placed former Dolly Madison management in charge.

Guess what happened?

Sad but incredibly predictable.

It’s a golden opportunity.

Hostess Brands is going out of business and it’s possible the company’s most iconic sugary confection – Twinkies -- could be bought by a Mexican business.

Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest bread-baking firm, could be on the short list for acquiring some of the Texas-based Hostess’ foodstuffs, according to Forbes. Grupo Bimbo already owns parts of Sara Lee, Entenmann’s and Thomas English Muffins.

Other firms that could be in the running include ConAgra and Flowers Food, the American company behind Nature Valley granola, as well as McKee Foods, baker of Little Debbie snack cakes, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

Pepperidge Farm, a division of Campbell Soup Co., is also considered a prospective buyer, analysts told Fox Business.

The Monitor reports Bimbo has already been present around the bankruptcy proceedings that have haunted Hostess for a decade, in a bid to further expand its North American portfolio and pad its $4 billion net worth.

According to Forbes, Bimbo put in a low-ball bid of $580 million a few years ago. But Hostess may turn out to be a steal with a reported worth of $135 million today.

The Hostess brands “most likely will be purchased by a competitor that will bolt the additional sales to a more efficient delivery system,” David Pauker, a food industry restructuring specialist, tells Reuters. “The company itself won't survive.”

Daniel Servitje Montull runs Grupo Bimbo along with his family. Under his leadership, which began in 1997, Daniel Servitje positioned the company for rapid growth. This included a battle with Mexico’s tortilla king and bringing white bread to Latin American markets, according to Forbes.

Today Bimbo, which reportedly competes with U.S. companies like Kellogg, Hershey and General Mills, is a $10 billion sales business with $200 million cash on its balance sheet, according to Forbes.

That’s a lot of Twinkies.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/18...#ixzz2Cg8RSdnb

That's what I figured. And it is pretty horrible news for the 18,500 unemployed.

The names and recipes will be bought, produced, and distributed through another company's system.

"New lifeline for Hostess workers: Bankruptcy judge orders company to enter mediation with Bakers Union (from AP)'

Amazed this didn't get posted. I will post it without comment and let you all fight it out.

http://gma.yahoo.com/bankrupt-hostes...opstories.html

Its Fannie and Freddie for the bread world.

So, they are taking money that is owed to the workers and giving it to the executives before the ship sinks all the way to the bottom?

WOW. Straight up corporate theft right there.

They're paying people to do a job. They're going to stop paying people who aren't doing a job anymore.

Only the middle class people working in a union are greedy. Executives making 20-50 times what the regular hourly employee of the company are somehow not considered greedy.

They are also not paying pensions that they owe.