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By the 1980s, the Forge Street bakery produced 125,000 loaves of bread each day for 2,800 stores in Northeast Ohio under the brand names Wonder, Wonder Light and Home Pride.
In January 2013 it was announced that Flowers Foods had offered to buy six of Hostess' bread brands, including Wonder Bread. The deal, initially structured at $360 million, involved 20 bakeries and 38 depots. [79] Flowers Foods won the bid to purchase five of the six bread brands (except Beefsteak, purchased by Grupo Bimbo) on February 28. [75]
By 1923, Schwebel's secured its first fleet of trucks, with six vehicles on hand. That same year the Schwebel's invested $25,000 and built a small bakery complete with a store front for retail business. At this time, the family could bake and deliver 1,000 loaves a day using six delivery trucks.
In 1925 it bought Taggart Baking Company, the maker of Wonder Bread, and became the largest commercial bakery in the United States. [9] [10] Twinkie snack cakes were invented in 1930 in Schiller Park, Illinois, by James Alexander Dewar, a baker at Continental Baking Company. Continental was based in New York from 1923 to 1984. [11]
A grocery store chain that flourished throughout Indiana and Ohio, eventually opening dozens of stores, Marsh Supermarkets filed for bankruptcy in 2017. Founded in 1931, it lasted for 88 years ...
In 1921, William and Salie Utz started selling Hanover Home potato chips, which they made in their Pennsylvania home in modest quantities of about 50 pounds of chips per day. They soon expanded ...
Continental Baking Company purchased Taggart in 1925. [7] This made Wonder Bread a national brand and added "It's Slo Baked" to the logo. [8] In the 1930s, Continental Baking began marketing Wonder Bread in sliced form nationwide, one of the first companies to do so; this was a significant milestone for the industry and for American consumers, who, at first, needed reassurance that "wonder-cut ...
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