The history of Hostess Brands and its beloved bread and snack cake products spans three centuries. We are an almost $2.5 billion (est.) company and one of the largest wholesale bakers and distributors of fresh-baked bread and sweet goods in the U.S. Our 19,000 employees operate more than 30 bakeries, 5,500 delivery routes, 600 distribution centers and 570 bakery outlet stores throughout the country. We are one of only a few bakeries with a national direct-store-delivery system serving more than 50,000 retail customers every day. The majority of our products are sold through supermarkets, national mass merchandisers and convenience stores.
Our brands are some of the best-known snacks and breads in the United States. We make nine of the top 10 selling sweet snacks. Our Twinkies, CupCakes and Fruit Pies are the top selling snacks in convenience stores. Wonder Bread has been a part of American family meals for nearly 90 years, and is the best-selling white bread in the country. Drake’s Cakes have been produced since 1888 and Dolly Madison cakes since 1937. Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s, Sno Balls and Donettes are also famous Hostess brands. Our other leading brands include Nature’s Pride, Home Pride, Merita, Holsum, Bread du Jour, Butternut, Millbrook, Eddy’s, J.J. Nissen, Sweetheart, Cotton’s Holsum, Beefsteak, and Mrs. Cubbison’s and Marie Callender’s croutons and stuffing.
We became Hostess Brands in 2009 and moved our headquarters to Dallas, Texas. Our operations center is in Kansas City, Missouri, and we have bakeries located across the U.S
