What Really Happened To Hostess Twinkies

Posted by | November 19, 2012 13:48 | Filed under: Top Stories


No, it’s not the outrageous demands of laborers that killed the company, as Helaine Olen notes:

Hostess has been sold at least three times since the 1980s, racking up debt and shedding profitable assets along the way with each successive merger. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2004, and again in 2011. Little thought was given to the line of products, which, frankly, began to seem a bit dated in the age of the gourmet cupcake…

As if all this were not enough, Hostess Brands’ management gave themselves several raises, all the while complaining that the workers who actually produced the products that made the firm what money it did earn were grossly overpaid relative to the company’s increasingly dismal financial position.

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By: Alan

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