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Twinkies go on sale again, with something missing

By Aimee Picchi
MSN Money

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The snack cakes may taste as sweet, but lost on the road to their return are thousands of jobs.

As Twinkies first went on sale over the weekend at Wal-Mart (WMT) and are now hitting store shelves widely on Monday, fans will be testing whether the cream-filled cakes offer the same sweet taste, amid reports of recipe tinkering and deep freezing.

Twinkies are returning after private equity firms Apollo Global Management (APO +1.44%) and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. bought several of the old Hostess snack cake brands. But one thing about Twinkies is clearly missing as the brand comes back: thousands of jobs.

Before Hostess Brands went bankrupt last year, the company employed 18,500 people. Now, upon its revival, only 20% to 25% of those jobs will be returning, CNNMoney reports, citing an estimate from IBISWorld. Even though the new company bought five bakeries, it plans to use only four, the report said.

A spokeswoman for the new venture cautioned against comparing employment numbers between the pre-bankruptcy company and the new Hostess because the private equity companies didn't buy rights to all Hostess brands, CNNMoney noted.
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