Canadian company SAVES THE TWINKIES - it will ship them to the USA

Canadian company SAVES THE TWINKIES - it will ship them to the USA


Vachon owns all the rights to Twinkies in Canada, and so they are unaffected by the crisis.


They plan to expand to the USA soon.


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Saputo pushes Vachon sales in U.S. as Twinkies future remains in doubt


MONTREAL A Canadian snack cake maker hopes that American fans of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s will get their fix by switching to Jos. Louis and May West.

Canadian cheese and bakery products company Saputo Inc. (TSX:SAP) has been making a sales push for its Vachon snack cakes into the Eastern United States for the past year.

“We want to grow the U.S. market and we have started to penetrate the east — Vermont and those surrounding states ... that’s what we started a year ago and we are continuing those efforts,” said spokeswoman Sandy Vassiadis.

Hostess Brands Inc., the U.S. maker of Twinkies, and its second-largest union will go into mediation to try and resolve their differences, meaning the company won’t go out of business just yet. The news came Monday after Hostess moved to liquidate and sell off its assets in bankruptcy court citing a crippling strike last week.

Many businesses reported selling out of Twinkies within hours and the spongy yellow cakes turned up for sale online for hundreds of dollars.