{"id":238841,"date":"2021-11-10T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=238841"},"modified":"2021-11-10T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T20:50:42","slug":"hershey-buys-nd-based-dots-pretzels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=238841","title":{"rendered":"Hershey buys ND Based Dot&#8217;s Pretzels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-238837\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Dots-pretzels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"119\" \/>(AP) \u00a0 Hershey is expanding its salty snack portfolio with the purchase of Dot\u2019s Homestyle Pretzels. The Hershey Co. said Wednesday that it will spend $1.2 billion for <strong>North Dakota-based Dot\u2019s Pretzels<\/strong> as well as Pretzels Inc., an Indiana-based manufacturer of Dot\u2019s Pretzels that operates three plants. The deal is expected to close later this year. Hershey has been seeing faster growth for salty snacks like Pirate\u2019s Booty than its other offerings like candy and gum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u00a0 Hershey is expanding its salty snack portfolio with the purchase of Dot\u2019s Homestyle Pretzels. The Hershey Co. said Wednesday that it will spend $1.2 billion for North Dakota-based Dot\u2019s Pretzels as well as Pretzels Inc., an Indiana-based manufacturer of Dot\u2019s Pretzels that operates three plants. The deal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":238837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238841","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\/238841","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=238841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238842,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238841\/revisions\/238842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}