{"id":14497,"date":"2013-03-19T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=14497"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T15:40:33","slug":"twinkies-could-be-back-this-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=14497","title":{"rendered":"Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Sale Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/twinkies2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14513\" title=\"twinkies2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/twinkies2-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/twinkies2-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/twinkies2-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/twinkies2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP Mar 19, 2013) &#8211; A bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Twinkies to a pair of investment firms.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hostess Brands Inc. is selling the spongy yellow cakes, along with other snacks including Ding Dongs and Ho Hos, to Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos &amp; Co. for $410 million.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Metropoulos, which owns Pabst beer, has said it hopes to have the cakes back on shelves by this summer.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The judge also approved the sale of Wonder and other breads to Flowers Foods, which makes Tastykakes. Flowers will also get Nature&#8217;s Pride, Butternut, Home Pride and Merita as part of the $360 deal.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The sale of Beefsteak, a regional bread brand, to Grupo Bimbo for $31.9 million was also approved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reported Earlier&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2013 Twinkies could be back on the supermarket shelves by summer. Hostess is moving ahead with plans to sell the rights to make the spongy cream-filled snacks. The bankrupt company had earlier said there would be an auction for those rights \u2014 but now it says there\u2019s only been one qualified bid for the cakes, which also include Ding Dongs and Ho Hos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP Mar 19, 2013) &#8211; A bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Twinkies to a pair of investment firms. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hostess Brands Inc. is selling the spongy yellow cakes, along with other snacks including Ding Dongs and Ho Hos, to Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15090,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions\/15090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}