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Speaker 1: Bloomberg business flash. You're listening to taking stock with pin

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Speaker 1: Box and Kathleen Hayes on Bloomberg Radio. Do you remember

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Speaker 1: what was it about three years ago when the shocking

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Speaker 1: news crossed the Bloomberg that the hostess Twinkie might be

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Speaker 1: on its way out of existence, Well, maybe not out

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Speaker 1: of the way of existence. But it was facing uh bankruptcy,

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Speaker 1: it was facing restructuring, and this iconic brand, in fact,

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Speaker 1: was very close to extinction before it was purchased by

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Speaker 1: Apollo Global Management and investor Dean Metropolis. And now we're

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Speaker 1: seeing Twinkies Baker Hostess to go public in a deal

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Speaker 1: with a very important investor. We're very happy to welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show Craig Gemona. He is a Bloomberg consumer

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Speaker 1: reporter and he wrote a terrific story about Twinkies today,

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Speaker 1: So remind us what happened to Twinkies. It looked like

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Speaker 1: it was on the verge of extinction, but it just

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Speaker 1: didn't seem possible. Even if they're filled with sugar and

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Speaker 1: not good with you. So many people grew up with them.

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Speaker 1: What happened, that's right, Well, they felt they've gott into

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Speaker 1: trouble twice in the last ten years. I think once

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Speaker 1: in two thousand nine, they emerged from bankruptcy only to

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Speaker 1: file again. You know about three years later they were

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Speaker 1: actually Twinkies were office else for about seven months. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was sort of the Facebook pages happened where Twinkies purchased,

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Speaker 1: like you said, and brought back to the market, and

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Speaker 1: now they're here and saying, basically, we've done pretty well

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Speaker 1: with it. They did what a private equity guys do.

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Speaker 1: They trimmed up the company, the workforces way down, they

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Speaker 1: consolidated the factories, and they're saying basically that they're back,

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Speaker 1: new and improved and they're ready to go public. Well,

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Speaker 1: you just mentioned something about the cuts that were implemented

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Speaker 1: as a result of the acquisition. Uh, this was also

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Speaker 1: a union issue, if I'm not mistaken, that's right. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's something I was looking at the presentation.

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Speaker 1: They discussed it this afternoon, something like eight thousand workers

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Speaker 1: they cut out the costs. Again, that's the private equity

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Speaker 1: guys do. They said, you know, very fascinating point. They

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Speaker 1: that Twinkies can you know, sustain nuclear attacks or whatever

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Speaker 1: the stories have been. But basically these guys are saying,

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Speaker 1: think the Twinkies are an iconic brand and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: So the snowball survived too, and the cupcakes. That's right.

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Speaker 1: like you you remember it from childhood. There's nostalgia around

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Speaker 1: this brand, and maybe younger consumers like a good, authentic

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Speaker 1: American story. It's an iconic brand with a lot of

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Speaker 1: brand equity, and you know, we think we can sell

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Speaker 1: of the details of the acquisition and Mr Metropolis, he's

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Speaker 1: he sort of gave it. They gave it some hipster credentials.

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Speaker 1: They ran with that, and you know, perhaps more than

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Speaker 1: doubled over the last decade of sales. It's it's well,

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Speaker 1: that with Twinkies. This sugar question and the remains it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It is a time when people are realizing that excess

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Speaker 1: what are the odds of overcoming that? I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't need a lot of sugar, I figured, but eve

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Speaker 1: a little bit of sugar. Not it's not so bad.

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Speaker 1: It's just when people constantly consume, is there is there

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Speaker 1: a niche or for them? Do you think? I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I mean, people eat differently now than they did in

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Speaker 1: the fifties, sixties, seventies, and you know there's no question

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Speaker 1: that right now sugar is the health boogeyman. Probably number one.

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Speaker 1: People know what's good reason that's right, And the FDA

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Speaker 1: out added sugar on the label. So everything sort of

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Speaker 1: that we know about health trends and eating trends would

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Speaker 1: point against headwinds for a company that is, like I said,

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Speaker 1: doubling down on sweetendulgers. They want to sell baked sugar,

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Speaker 1: process sugar, these kind of products. You know, there's brand

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Speaker 1: strength there, but no question that consumers have moved away

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Speaker 1: from this type of thing. Any talk about valuation for Hostess,

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Speaker 1: you know they were taught it's reasonable, is what I

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Speaker 1: But because of the names involved, I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of attention to it. Again. You know, Metropolis has had

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Speaker 1: involved with Pinnacle Foods, and I believe that Bill Taller,

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Speaker 1: Pinnacle Foods. That's right. So a lot of things I

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Speaker 1: heard today is about these guys know how to execute.

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Speaker 1: There's good gross margins and and bread and baked goods

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Speaker 1: like that if they can execute so and like I said,

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Speaker 1: really cut the fat out of what Hostess used to be,

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Speaker 1: but not the sugar just right, So Craig, go real

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Speaker 1: quickly here, your food and reporter, what's on your horizon?

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Speaker 1: One of the one of the next big stories you're following. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, they rejected the deal, but every one had

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Speaker 1: kind of been waiting for food deals to perk back

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Speaker 1: that deal. There's a lot of consolidation because of what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about. These uh CpG companies have had a

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Speaker 1: hard time with changing consumer taste, so was off to

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Speaker 1: going to pick up here. Thanks for spending time with us.

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Speaker 1: Craigmona is food and restaurant reporter for Bloomberg News. Talking

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Speaker 1: about Hostess and it's impending initial public offering. Talking about

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Speaker 1: Hersheet that shares it down about a tens of a percent. Today,

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