Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Potential new owners, including the parent firms of Pabst beer and Hardee's, are emerging for Hostess Brands. Share your thoughts.
PBR and Twinkies, part of the same company? Hardee's and Twinkies, under the same company banner? Might happen. According to media reports, potential new owners are emerging for assets of Hostess Brands, the maker of the iconic snack food. Hostess filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, and its brands could be split up and sold off to various companies. And it means that Twinkies may not be back on store shelves until September, according to the New York Post. -- Have you missed Twinkies? Or are snack foods passe? Share your opinions in the comments below. One of the potential buyers for Twinkies and other snack cakes is C. Dean Metropoulos & Co., the private equity firm that owns the Pabst beer label, according to the Los Angeles Times. …
Monday, November 26, 2012
A look at some Thanksgiving weekend news stories from the area.
Thanksgiving is over, you are headed back to work, and the kids are back in school. So it's a good time to review some news matters that you may have missed amid all that turkey and football. GEORGIA COMPANY EYES TWINKIES MAKER: Flowers Foods, based in Thomasville, Ga., is setting itself up to buy Hostess Brands, the makers of Twinkies and other popular snack foods, according to Patch and other media reports. Flowers makes the Sunbeam and Nature's Own brands. NO-RISK BCS TICKET PACKAGE: A Suwanee-based travel agency is touting a special ticket-travel package for the BCS Championship game in January 2013. Esoteric Sports' deal requires a $300 deposit, which is refunded if "your team" -- either Alabama or Georgia, in this case -- is not …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Some shoppers are stocking up at stores and then reselling the snack items after Hostess announces a shutdown. Share your thoughts.
Price gouging on Twinkies? Could be. It seems that some shoppers across the U.S. have been stocking up on the iconic snack food since Friday (November 16) and then reselling it at a hefty markup online, according to media reports. Not long after Twinkies maker Hostess announced plans to close its doors, people flocked to stores to fill shopping baskets with boxes of the cream-filled sponge cakes and their companion snacks, such as Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and Zingers, the New York Daily News reported. Opportunists then took to eBay and Craigslist. They began marketing their stashes to collectors and junk-food lovers for hundreds — and in some cases — thousands of dollars, according to reports. Retail price for a box of 10 Twinkies is about $5. …
Rick Smith
10:07 am on Monday, November 19, 2012
And the same workers who somehow got the employer/employee relationship confused. There are no "rights" deserved from an employer other than the right to leave if you don't like the working conditions or pay. He must have liked something to stay on for 28 years. So if the company fed his family for that long and finds themselves in trouble, why shouldn't he help? .....That is if he wants to … more ›