Hostess Brands

This article is about the company founded in 2013. For the original Hostess Brands, see Old HB. For the brand of snack cakes, see Hostess (snack cakes).
Hostess Brands, LLC
Private
Industry Food (bakery)
Predecessor Old HB
Founded June 2013 (June 2013)
Headquarters Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Products Brands such as Hostess and Dolly Madison
Owner C. Dean Metropoulos and Co.
Apollo Global Management
Website www.hostessbrands.com

Hostess Brands, LLC is a bakery company formed in June 2013. It owns several bakeries in the United States that produce snack cakes under the Hostess and Dolly Madison brand names. It is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri and is owned by HB Holdings, LLC, which is owned by Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos and Company.[1]

The company is separate from Old HB, which was formerly known as Hostess Brands, Inc. from 2009–2013. Old HB is currently under liquidation and sold its cake business to Apollo and Metropoulos creating the current Hostess Brands. The current Hostess Brands was formed as New HB Acquisition, LLC to acquire the cake business (Hostess and Dolly Madison brands) of Hostess Brands, Inc. Following the conclusion of the sale, Hostess Brands, Inc. became Old HB, Inc. and New HB Acquisition became Hostess Brands, LLC.[2]

In June 2013, Hostess Brands retained the same public relations and advertising firms that had previously worked for Old HB. Bernstein-Rein, in Kansas City, MO will do Hostess Brands' advertising; LAK Public Relations, in New York, will handle its public relations for the return of Hostess products.[3]

The company officially restarted production of snack cakes on June 6, 2013, with products officially going on sale on July 15, 2013.[1]

Of the eleven bakeries operated by Old HB, Hostess Brands retained four, in Columbus, Georgia; Emporia, Kansas; Indianapolis, Indiana and Schiller Park, Illinois.[4] The Schiller Park facility later closed, in October 2014.[5][6]

In the summer of 2015, Hostess began producing Hostess brand bread and buns. The company, which previously owned Wonder Bread, never produced bread under its own brand name. The new Hostess bread items are carried at certain drug stores and dollar stores.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Choi, Candice (June 24, 2013). "Hostess says Twinkies will return to shelves July 15 with wider distribution". Star Tribune. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Business Name History". Missouri Secretary of State. July 22, 2013. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Elliott, Stuart (June 30, 2013). "News From the Advertising Industry (Accounts)". New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ Bomkamp, Samantha; Cancino, Alejandra (August 20, 2014). "Hostess Twinkie plant in Schiller Park closes after 84 years". Chicago Tribune.
  5. ↑ Lobosco, Katie (August 20, 2014). "Twinkie bakery to close, putting 400 out of work". CNN Money.
  6. ↑ "Hostess Bakery plant in Schiller Park closes". ABC 7 Chicago. October 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ http://www.bakingbusiness.com/articles/news_home/Business/2015/06/Metropoulos_moves_Hostess_into.aspx?ID=%7BA6282207-02DA-4204-8E1E-77641AEB68F2%7D

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