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#1 Nov 16 2012 at 11:08 AM Rating: Good
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Hostess is permanently shutting down after a union strike crippled their operations in the middile of the company's financial troubles.

Hostess Official Website wrote:
Hostess Brands to Wind Down Company
After BCTGM Union Strike Cripples Operations

Irving, TX – November 16, 2012 – Hostess Brands Inc. today announced that it is winding down operations and has filed a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking permission to close its business and sell its assets, including its iconic brands and facilities. Bakery operations have been suspended at all plants. Delivery of products will continue and Hostess Brands retail stores will remain open for several days in order to sell already-baked products.

The Board of Directors authorized the wind down of Hostess Brands to preserve and maximize the value of the estate after one of the Company’s largest unions, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), initiated a nationwide strike that crippled the Company’s ability to produce and deliver products at multiple facilities.

On Nov. 12, Hostess Brands permanently closed three plants as a result of the work stoppage. On Nov. 14, the Company announced it would be forced to liquidate if sufficient employees did not return to work to restore normal operations by 5 p.m., EST p.m., Nov. 15. The Company determined on the night of Nov. 15 that an insufficient number of employees had returned to work to enable the restoration of normal operations.

The BCTGM in September rejected a last, best and final offer from Hostess Brands designed to lower costs so that the Company could attract new financing and emerge from Chapter 11. Hostess Brands then received Court authority on Oct. 3 to unilaterally impose changes to the BCTGM’s collective bargaining agreements.

Hostess Brands is unprofitable under its current cost structure, much of which is determined by union wages and pension costs. The offer to the BCTGM included wage, benefit and work rule concessions but also gave Hostess Brands’ 12 unions a 25 percent ownership stake in the company, representation on its Board of Directors and $100 million in reorganized Hostess Brands’ debt.

“We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike,” said Gregory F. Rayburn, chief executive officer. “Hostess Brands will move promptly to lay off most of its 18,500-member workforce and focus on selling its assets to the highest bidders.”

In addition to dozens of baking and distribution facilities around the country, Hostess Brands will sell its popular brands, including Hostess®, Drakes® and Dolly Madison®, which make iconic cake products such as Twinkies®, CupCakes, Ding Dongs®, Ho Ho’s®, Sno Balls® and Donettes®. Bread brands to be sold include Wonder®, Nature’s Pride ®, Merita®, Home Pride®, Butternut®, and Beefsteak®, among others.

The wind down means the closure of 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers, approximately 5,500 delivery routes and 570 bakery outlet stores throughout the United States.

The Company said its debtor-in-possession lenders have agreed to allow the Company to continue to have access to the $75 million financing facility put in place at the start of the bankruptcy cases to fund the sale and wind down process, subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval.

The Company’s motion asks the Court for authority to continue to pay employees whose services are required during the wind-down period.

For employees whose jobs will be eliminated, additional information can be found at www.hostessbrands.info. The website also contains information for customers and vendors. Most employees who lose their jobs should be eligible for government-provided unemployment benefits.


I wish the employees the best of luck at finding work, and recommend they bring recipes to Little Debbie as offerings for employment.
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#2 Nov 16 2012 at 11:20 AM Rating: Excellent
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"Hostess" as a brand name always just sounded like a word to me. I never mentally connected it to "hostess", as in a female host. No doubt this is why they ultimately failed.

Also, once when I was in grade school we took a trip to a Wonder Bread bakery and, at the end, they gave each of us a freshly made hot dog bun. It was really good and I guess even the most generic things can taste yummy if you catch them fresh enough.
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#3 Nov 16 2012 at 11:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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In addition to dozens of baking and distribution facilities around the country, Hostess Brands will sell its popular brands, including Hostess®, Drakes® and Dolly Madison®, which make iconic cake products such as Twinkies®, CupCakes, Ding Dongs®, Ho Ho’s®, Sno Balls® and Donettes®. Bread brands to be sold include Wonder®, Nature’s Pride ®, Merita®, Home Pride®, Butternut®, and Beefsteak®, among others.


I frankly don't see how any of those are popular.
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#4 Nov 16 2012 at 11:23 AM Rating: Good
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I liked Donettes.
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#5 Nov 16 2012 at 11:24 AM Rating: Good
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Sno Balls are freaking delicious if you like coconut and don't want a Mounds. Never heard of Beefsteak brand bread before though, maybe they were similar to Japanese Meat Buns.

Edited, Nov 16th 2012 12:25pm by Shaowstrike
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Beefsteak was a wide loaf of rye bread, presumably for making large meaty sandwiches.
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what was or is butternut?
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Split top loaf of white with butter flavor in the crust. Basically a step up from Wonder Bread.
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what was or is butternut?


It is like a Cleveland Steamer, but with Squash
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#10 Nov 16 2012 at 6:29 PM Rating: Good
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I like butternut squash... but that bread doesn't sound nice at all
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Yeah, "bread & butter" is a pretty wild flavor combination.
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It's regular bread. They're all regular breads. They're in like every grocery store I've been in.

*Edit: apparently Butternut is regional. I think the rest are national though.


Edited, Nov 16th 2012 6:48pm by trickybeck
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Good riddance.
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How much dairy do you think is in a Sno Ball? Might have to try to find me some before they disappear forever.
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How much dairy do you think is in a Sno Ball? Might have to try to find me some before they disappear forever.


I'd be surprised if there was anything natural in them.
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#16 Nov 16 2012 at 10:09 PM Rating: Good
I like how we have a thread with Palestine in the title that isn't about the recent escalation over there. I don't think twinkie factories are their biggest concern right now.

Yes, I know about the Israel thread.

Edited, Nov 17th 2012 4:10am by Kavekk
#17 Nov 16 2012 at 10:26 PM Rating: Good
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I like how we have a thread with Palestine in the title that isn't about the recent escalation over there. I don't think twinkie factories are their biggest concern right now.

Yes, I know about the Israel thread.

Edited, Nov 17th 2012 4:10am by Kavekk


Pretty sure this thread title is just cross thread shenanigans. Somewhere in the other thread someone made a twinkie comment.
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Guenny wrote:
How much dairy do you think is in a Sno Ball? Might have to try to find me some before they disappear forever.


I'd be surprised if there was anything natural in them.


I think the coconut is the only natural ingredient. Anyway here are the ingredients for a Sno Ball:

Sugar, Water, Corn Syrup, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour, Coconut (Sulfite Treated), Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable and/or Animal Shortening (Soybean, Cottonseed and/or Canola Oil, Beef Fat), High Fructose Corn Syrup. Contains 2% or Less of: Cocoa, Pork Gelatin, Modified Corn Starch, Glucose, Sweet Dairy Whey, Leavenings (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda, Monocalcium Phosphate), Mono and Diglycerides, Soy Flour, Polysorbate 60, Soy Lecithin, Cornstarch, Salt, Soy Protein Isolate, Calcium and Sodium Caseinate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Dextrose, Cellulose Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Potassium Sorbate and Sorbic Acid (to Retain Freshness). Coatings Contain: Blue (FD&C Blue 1 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Green (Yellow 5 Lake, Blue 1 Lake), Lavender (Blue 2 Lake, Carmine, Red 40 Lake), Orange (Yellow 6 Lake), Red (Red 40 Lake), Pink (Carmine, Red 40 Lake), Teal (Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake), Yellow (Yellow 5 Lake)

They contain "Sweet Dairy Whey", but I don't think there is any lactose in it.
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Twinkies have officially reached drug prices. Stock and resell before it's too late.

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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
Twinkies have officially reached drug prices. Stock and resell before it's too late.

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That's just stupid. The recipes and brand names are too valuable to not sell off. This is just a temporary shortage until some other company starts making them.
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Hmm someone with three star rating is selling a box for just under one million plus shipping. Seems legit.
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Beefsteak Marble Rye is so good.
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Twinkies are old news. I'm going to corner the market on Butternut bread on eBay.
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You can at least try to be witty when you act so stupid.


I don't think it is an act.
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