17 Nov 2012
The Last Box of Twinkies in Zombieland
Hostess Brands, Twinkies, Zombies
Hat tip to Iowahawk.
Category Archive 'Hostess Brands'
17 Nov 2012
Let Us Sit Upon the Ground and Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of US Businesses
Hostess Brands, Recession, Unions
Rush Limbaugh:
“Okay, folks, so where are we today? I can sum it up for you very simply. Al-Qaeda is alive; Twinkies are dead.â€
16 Nov 2012
Hostess is Shrugging
Business, Hostess Brands, Recession, Twinkies, Unions
Friday could very well go down in history as the death knell for an 82-year-old Chicago-born American classic snack cake: The Twinkie.
Hostess Brands, Texas-based maker of Twinkies and a number of other snack foods, announced Friday that, on the heels of a nationwide worker strike, it will be going out of business, closing its production plants and laying off the vast majority of its 18,500 employees nationwide. As for the Twinkie brand? It will be going up for sale.
Three of the company’s plants — including one in St. Louis — closed earlier this week as workers went on strike in response to wage cuts and new limitations in worker participation in pension plans. Now, 1,415 workers at the company’s three Illinois bakeries — in Schiller Park, Hodgkins and Peoria — are losing their jobs, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
