TASTYCAKES is way better than Hostess and TASTYCAKE IS UNION!

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31. Flowers Foods is somewhat larger than Hostess Brands

CORPORATE PROFILE Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO), with 2011 sales of $2.8 billion, is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers in the U.S. The company’s 44 highly efficient bakeries produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. About 70% of the U.S. population has access to the company’s fresh bakery foods through a network of independent distributors serving the East, South, and Southwest. Flowers’ frozen bakery items and snack cakes are delivered to customers’ warehouses nationwide.

Flowers Foods’ brands are among the most well known in the baking industry and are backed by consistent quality, value, and good taste. Top company-owned retail brands include Nature’s Own, Whitewheat, Cobblestone Mill, Tastykake, Mrs. Freshley’s, and Blue Bird. Regional and franchised brands include Sunbeam, Bunny, Captain John Derst, Evangeline Maid, ButterKrust, Mary Jane, Betsy Ross, Roman Meal, Country Kitchen, and Barowsky’s.

From http://www.flowersfoods.com/FFC_InvestorCenter/FinancialDocuments/InvestorFactSheet/FLOInvestorFactSheet.pdf

About 7% of Flowers Foods employees work under union contracts.