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'Hostess Twinkie' Investors Involved in Other Iconic American Brands
By: Minyanville Headlines
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 17:39 PM EST
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL The Hostess Brands demise will be analyzed quite a bit in the coming days but what’s also interesting is what the former Interstate Bakeries Corp has in common with some other household names including Maytag Whirlpoool (NYSE:WHR) Readers Digest Lillian Vernon Shaklee Krispy Creme (NYSE:KKD) and Moneygram (NYSE:MGI). At one time or another they have all been handed a lifeline Ripplewood Holdings and/or Silver Point Capital. Of course many times that lifeline does not include continuing as publicly-traded stand-alone businesses but such are the tradeoffs. Maytag continues now as part of Whirlpool. Ripplewood founded in 1995 by ...
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