บริษ้ทที่ผลิต Hostess Cakes เจ๊งแล้ว Bye Bye Twinkies Ding Dong

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-hostess-closing-20121116,0,5070501.story

Soon after hearing that Hostess Brands Inc. was shutting down for good, Lisa Renee Clark wasted no time dashing out to the Wonder Hostess Bakery Thirftshop in Glen Burnie.

But by midday Friday, she was almost too late. The Twinkies had sold out. Supplies of Wonder white bread were dwindling. And the shelves appeared bare of any Ho Ho's. Finally spotting two boxes of the chocolate cream-filled snack cakes, Clark snatched them up.

"So many fun, good things from my childhood are going away," said Clark, 43, a self-employed production assistant and camera operator from Pasadena. "It reminds me of school lunch."

Nostalgia for Hostess' iconic snacks and Wonder breads drove consumers to the outlet on Furnace Branch Road and area grocers Friday to buy Hostess products by the bag load.

On Friday, the 82-year old company announced it will liquidate and fire more than 18,000 workers, saying a nationwide strike by bakery workers forced a shutdown of operations. And consumers stocked up, fearing the Hostess treats would be wiped away forever, though it's more likely the brands would be sold off and returned to the market by new owners. Shoppers at Giant Food and Safeway stores in the Baltimore area were buying large quantities of Hostess foods, both grocers reported.

"I can't imagine being without Twinkies," said Edythe Smith, of Annapolis, who also loaded up on Hostess Donettes and CupCakes while shopping with her daughter at the thrift shop.

Hostess, which once ranked as the largest U.S. wholesale baker, had suffered declining sales for years as American diets shifted to more health-conscious choices and labor and ingredient costs rose. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors in January. The Irving, Texas,-based company blamed striking workers for its latest move.

"Companies in bankruptcy don't have any margin for error," CEO Gregory F. Rayburn said Friday in an interview with Betty Liu on "In the Loop" on Bloomberg Television. "We just didn't have enough workers crossing the picket line."

Rayburn said in that interview that Hostess intends to ship its bread and snack cakes until supplies run out and plans to sell its assets, which include 36 bakeries and 565 distribution centers. Hostess closed three of its plants on Nov. 12. The company said it determined Thursday night that not enough employees had returned to work to restore normal operations.

But both Giant and Safeway were told Friday that the company's shipments that day would be the last.

"Our stores are running low on the Hostess products," said Jamie Miller, a Giant Food spokesman. "There was a limited production of the Hostess products this week, and we won't be getting any additional deliveries. Once it's gone, it's gone."

At Safeway, Wonder and Hostess brand products also were in high demand on Friday, with grocers and drugstores around the nation reporting similar situations.

"People are buying up the items very quickly, and some were buying them in large quantities," said Gregory A. TenEyck, a spokesman for Safeway's Eastern Division.

A few people hoped to profit from the sudden, depleted supply, listing Twinkies, Zingers, Coffee Cakes and CupCakes for sale on Ebay.com. A 10-pack of Twinkies is available for $24.99 and four 10-packs are listed for $99.99 on the auction website, Bloomberg reported. That compares to a 10-pack of Twinkies listed for $3.29 on online grocer Peapod.

At the Glen Burnie outlet center on Friday, retired couple Allen Small and Kathleen Demby loaded six bags of Hostess goodies into their truck: doughnuts, cakes, Twinkies, fruit pies. Demby said she planned to freeze most of it and enjoy it a little at a time.

"I remember when I was little Wonder Bread was around," said Small, noting that he grew up in Washington, D.C., and remembers the Wonder bakery there.

"It's a shame," added Kathleen Demby of Brooklyn. Hostess made "all the best cakes and pies. Their doughnuts are delicious. It was nice to have a cup of coffee and a doughnut."

Inside the store, where loaves of Wonder Bread sold for 99 cents, customers were surprised to learn the company had shut down the credit card systems and was only accepting cash.

"I have never seen this many people here," said Lynna Mae, a customer who works as a hair stylist at Z-Image at a shopping strip next to the bakery outlet. "It's sad. It's part of history…going away."

Behind the outlet center, at a Hostess distribution center, rows of delivery trucks with the familiar red, blue and yellow Wonder Bread logo sat parked on Friday. One worker outside the center offered a "no comment," before heading back inside.

ปกติไม่ค่อยกินขนมของHostess แต่วันพรุ่งนี้ว่าจะไปซื้อ TwinkiesกับDonettesมากินอำลาส่งท้ายสักหน่อย

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snafu

Bimbo เข้ามาแย่งส่วนแบ่งในตลาดขนมชิ้นสักพักแล้ว ยังไง ๆ ก็กระทบ

ที่สำคัญมาก ๆ ตอนนี้คนอเมริกันหันมาสนใจสุขภาพมากขึ้น พวกขนมปัง whole wheat, multi grains เป็นตัวการสำคัญในตลาดด้านขนมปัง

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ลองเข้าไปดูในอีเบย์ ตอนนี้มีการตั้งราคาประมูล และบางคนประมูล แบบไม่เชื่อว่าจะมีแบบนี้จริงๆ ><

เคยกินเมื่อ ๓๐ ปีก่อนค่ะ ตอนเป็นนักศึกษา กินหนึ่งครั้ง มันหวานมาก และมัน(ไขมันสูง) และไม่ได้กินอีก ไม่มีความอยากซื้อกิน

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ฝรั่งขาว และคนอัฟริกัน อเมริกัน ชอบกิน... เป็นของว่างอเมริกันสไตล์

ไม่รู้จักอะ

Zombieland

ไม่ชอบเหมือนกันเพราะมันหวานมาก แต่รู้สึกใจหาย ถ้า Twinkies จะจากไป
แล้วหนังพวกล้างบ้านล้างเมืองจะกินอะไรกันหละทีนี้

น่าจะมีคนเป็นเบาหวานน้อยลง แต่เหมือนพวกของอเมริกันแท้ๆเริ่มหายไปหมดหล่ะ