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In January 2013 it was announced that Flowers Foods had offered to buy six of Hostess' bread brands, including Wonder Bread. The deal, initially structured at $360 million, involved 20 bakeries and 38 depots. [79] Flowers Foods won the bid to purchase five of the six bread brands (except Beefsteak, purchased by Grupo Bimbo) on February 28. [75]
Continental Baking Company purchased Taggart in 1925. [7] This made Wonder Bread a national brand and added "It's Slo Baked" to the logo. [8] In the 1930s, Continental Baking began marketing Wonder Bread in sliced form nationwide, one of the first companies to do so; this was a significant milestone for the industry and for American consumers, who, at first, needed reassurance that "wonder-cut ...
In 1925 it bought Taggart Baking Company, the maker of Wonder Bread, and became the largest commercial bakery in the United States. [9] [10] Twinkie snack cakes were invented in 1930 in Schiller Park, Illinois, by James Alexander Dewar, a baker at Continental Baking Company. Continental was based in New York from 1923 to 1984. [11]
By the 1980s, the Forge Street bakery produced 125,000 loaves of bread each day for 2,800 stores in Northeast Ohio under the brand names Wonder, Wonder Light and Home Pride.
French's yellow mustard is well over 100 years old — first appearing as French's Cream Salad Mustard at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair — but by 1921, the new product had grown popular enough ...
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Merita is a brand of breads that was produced by Hostess Brands and now produced by Flowers Foods, available throughout the Southeastern United States until November 16, 2012, when Hostess's management decided to liquidate Hostess.
Feb 27 (Reuters) - Flowers Foods Inc (FLO) is set to buy Hostess bread brands including Wonder bread for $360 million after no other bidder stepped up to make a competing offer, a source familiar ...