Hostess Could Be Saved. Union and Hostess Agree to Mediation.
The Twinkie may have one last breath. It's too much of an American instution to go down quietly!
The Twinkie may have one last breath. It's too much of an American instution to go down quietly!
Everyone is taking the news of Hostess closing up shop pretty hard. So we are going down memory lane and thinking about the little snack cakes we love the most.
With the news that Hostess is going out of business, there is more than likely a mad rush to the store to get the last few boxes. If you can't find any, there still might be hope.
Say it isn't so. This morning Hostess Brands Inc, the maker of Twinkies, Ho Ho's and Wonder Bread said it will ask a bankruptcy judge for permission to liquidate after failing to obtain wage and benefit cuts from thousands of its bakery workers.
First: A brief history. Twinkies were invented in Illinois in 1930 by James Alexander Dewar, a baker for the Continental Baking Company.