Old Man, Way to go!

While executives of publicly traded companies in the U.S. fresh bread business have rightly identified significant headwinds impeding their efforts to achieve profitable growth in the past year, the overall picture for baking’s health is anything but distressing. A review of recently released financial results shows each of the companies — Grupo Bimbo in the United States, Flowers Foods, Pepperidge Farm and Sara Lee — was solidly in the black from an operating income perspective. It was the first time in several years, perhaps since the 1990s, that all publicly traded baking companies could be characterized in that way. Standing out is Grupo Bimbo with U.S. operating income of $334 million in 2009. That figure compares with the combined earnings of Bimbo and Weston Foods (with Weston’s fresh baking operations acquired by Bimbo in 2008) totaling less than $200 million a year earlier. Of course, no longer part of these data are the financial results of Hostess Brands (formerly Interstate Bakeries), which emerged from a 4½ year bankruptcy in February 2009 as a privately-held business. Still, Hostess is no longer the dominant player in baking it was before filing for bankruptcy protection. While it is likely that top executives of the nation’s leading baking companies are not fully satisfied with 2009 and aspire toward improved profit margins and earnings growth in the years ahead, the across-the-board profitability in the industry represents a solid starting point toward those objectives.

Holy Shit !!! We just bought Sara Lee. WOW!!!

"Bitch ass" choked on Indys 9 inch and died.

What ever happened to the"bitch ass clerk"? I hear she was pretty hot.

Go Teamsters- L.A. Hector Rules

Higher management is just playing with our heads.Do not panic,this is a test.If it was for real we all would be working in a real job,with people who cared,making real money.I repeat,do not panic.

Anonymous; You're a union fucking scumbag. Eat shit and die already...

Name: THE TRUE PICTURE Date: 2010-03-10 Date: Web site Comment: I NOTICE ALOT OF YOU SEEM TO JUST TAKE THE ABUSE FROM YOUR MGT WHY? FILE GREVINCE KEY WORD HARASSMENT !!!!!!! THIS WILL GET HR ATT AND YOU ESTABLISH A PAPER TRAIL !!!!!!!!! ........................................................................ I have filed many many many grievances over the years... when I win the grievance ? I am treated even worse by IBC .. its a never ending circle.... why do I stay?????? pension and benefits

Lets just say the teddy bear got out bid by aunt SARA!!!!!!!! By the way didnt hear anyone say they ordered more MERITA bags !!!!!!!! like i said i think ripplewood just wanted a quick infusion of cash mr Collins has said they sold merita cause they want to have one label for whole country!!!! more brands to be sold after summer!!!!!! OVER AND OUT GODSPEED TO ALL!!!!!!!

Path to the market started in Memphis Monday. How is this working out so far?

Us folks on the West coast are not to familar with the Merita brand. Fill us in. What areas are they in? I understand there pretty big in Florida and the south? Are they seperate from the Wonder/Hostess routes or We are already distributing it and will no longer after Sara Lee buys the label?

Someone who cares, we are also hearing that Merita was sold for $50 Million, but we are hearing that Bimbo was the Company that bought us, not Sara Lee? Any chance that you had the Companies confused? Thanks.

First off i told you guys you will hear about it on the 15th of march.your business agents will know by the12th friday.relax there not going out of business you will still have wonder natures pride and hostess to sell just no more merita.the label was sold for 50 MILLION TO SARA LEE .this is whar ripplewood wants same brands across the country.personally i think they sold it to get the cash.this is 100 percent true look back when ever i posted anything it was true. GODSPEED

I have had everything done to me.Performance and threats to get rid of me if I dont do better.How can I do better when the whole united states and economy is not doing better.I will ride this train until it crashes and then collect unemployment.

PTM is one big clusterf*ck!!!!!!!!!!!

........now it would be the hourlies turn. If this is the best thing you got going on hang on to it, but watch upper management. These people were laughing behind your back We were to screw with you and make life miserable.................................................................................................................................................. this is nothing new----------------management has always tried to screw with the hourlies.. they've harassed, discriminated against the ones they "dont like" , misplaced or made errors on checks, made errors ( didnt add $) into weekly pension ,contributions, screwed up schedules...and so on ................................. this is everyday ............................... tell me something new

Right after that asshole, young gun, tells us where he gets his information from.

Number one I am not fat.I am 120 pounds with a double d cup.I do not eat sugar,or meat.Number two,I am not a gold digger,my husband makes 6 figures,I just work at the thrift store to keep me busy,and in touch with society.I am loyal to my husband and to my job.A very loving wife.When you stated we have sex with the likes of you,I just explained I dont know anyone at my branch that would,or any route driver there who would go out on his wife.Usually the wifes of route drivers make more money than the route drivers themselves.Perhaps,you are over rating your penis.And,if you are sharing it with others,you are not trying to make them happy,you are really lashing out trying to get back at someone else.That is all.If I hit on a sore spot with you,maybe you can psycoanalize your own problem.Poor 9 inches.Cant even use it to what it was intended for.A shame,Sigh.

when is the new wonder smart bread coming out

Can any of you guys post a link to what you are reading regarding a Press Release? Or is it an e-mail you recieved?

what are you talking about YOUNG GUN ? no news here?

Just got done reading the Press no big deal we all knew it was just a matter off time. I guess we all will ride the surf board to the NEW company or for some to the door. Best off Luck to all June 1 will come fast.

Heres the bottom line - all the bull shit about "path to market - business plans - moving forward" don't mean shit and are smokescreens because - OUR PRODUCTS ARE WAY OVERPRICED AND USUALLY DON'T TASTE AS GOOD AS THE OTHER GUYS........thats it - fuck the fancy corporate buzz words we cannot compete!

Kansas, please keep us posted on any breaking news, we'll be waiting with baited breath.

Its to bad what happened to Chris Kelly. But it shouldn't surprise anyone. For the last few years, the same type treatment happened to many other very good managers. That is one of the main reasons why we are in such bad shape today. Just take a hard look at some of our high ranking managers that are now gone, its crazy. So Cal was leading the country and they let that manager go. Northern Cal was making great money, they let him go. Mid west production manager was going great, they let him go, and on and on and on. Now here we are sinking daily with terrible mangers in all departments . Sucks to be us!

What is this Hodgkins, the 10 cent psycoanalysis? What? It's ok for her to call men losers, that dont make enough money for her, are ugly and have small penis's. All I did,was call her bluff and call her a fat golddigger.

dam this last price increase is brutal 3.19 for a loaf of rye bread u have to be kidding me we r going to price r selves right out of this business

Indy, Compassionate?....You make it sound like a bad thing........Are you in management or did your parents beat you up when you were still nursing?

Hodgkins, IL, You're welcome

There was no press release.In the know.You didnt know.

WHERE IS THE BIG PRESS RELEASE BOONVILLE

As I posted a coulpe weeks back about Sara Lee. Rumor is here they are looking to get out of the fresh bread business....will keep updating as things transpire.

wa te hell is this press release about boonville?

press release 3pm from ripplewood ceo and craig.

Yes that`s the reason why she waddles.She told me if we kept this up .She would probally end up in a wheel chair.She probally will, her walking IS GETTING BAD! wHT DO YOU THINK?

KNOXVILLE ANY ONE IN THE KNOW HAS BAGS BEEN ORDERED FOR MERITA PROUCT NEXT QUARTER THIS WILL PUT THIS TO REST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER

Dear Indy,now we really see how you feel about the Thrift Store retail clerks.You actually would want to hurt them with your nine inches not pleasure them.Pay them back for something that is beyond their control.Perhaps you were molested as a child,and this is a way to get back at your mother.The plot thickens.Thank you dirty.

Dear Indy,now we really see how you feel about the Thrift Store retail clerks.You actually would want to hurt them with your nine inches not pleasure them.Pay them back for something that is beyond their control.Perhaps you were molested as a child,and this is a way to get back at your mother.The plot thickens.Thank you dirty.

The propaganda has to stop!! not everyone falls for the bullshit Knoxville!!! do unto others as you would want others to do unto you!!!

Is that the real "Dirty", Are you getting compassionate in your old age? Must have hit home with you.

When is the press release?

9 inches, Is that why Linda Lee waddles when she walks?

Ican assure you I don't work for competion. We will have wonder and natures pride in southeast. I just told you guys the merita label is sold you should all know this. You where all told in your town hall meeting. That's the direction ripplewood wanted to go but some of the southeast upper manager who have since been removed begged to keep the merita label know there fired and ripplewood gets to cash in some chips 50million for merita label. See if your bakeries have ordered any more merita bags for next quarter. Natures pride and wonder this will be country wide sooner or later. Just so happens it starts in the southeast. Knoxville you are right they won't sell anything down there without merita. Next will be to sell the wonder/np routes but that's down the road after they clean out some more dead wood !!!!

We're Closing!! We're Sold!! We're Done!! It's Over!! Lock The Doors!! I am so sick of these dumb asses trying to spread lies. Shut up get to work or leave. Not to mention half of them posting comments work for other companies and are just screwing with us. Get a Life!!!

IF MERTIA BRAND IS SOLDAND THE PLANTS IN SOUTHEAST PRODUCEONLY WONDER AND NATURES PRIDE THEY WILL CLOSE IN 6MONTHS

big meeting 3/9/10 the axe will fall on those who dont produce and those who need work supplied to them. good luck to all.

Soon the government is going to place a deficit tax on payroll of all workers and more health taxes on workers. someone is going to have to pay for it all and i thank the taxpayers for their genorosity to these causes. hats off to all of you.

Dallas Mole, can you say who the Merita label was sold to? How long before the new Company takes us over?

Dallas Mole. Thanks for the good wishes. As you know there are a couple of people (IBC veterans) that I was and continue to be close to in KC and Dallas. And they had the same things to say about why I was let go. It does make a mockery of the Performance Culture Mantra doesn't it. My department hit every goal thrown at it during my 10 year stay at Corporate. Everyone in the know understands why I was let go. You gave one of the reasons. The other was that I fought hard for my people, and unfortunately most of the time the department I was fighting was the one I was in (Human Resources). But I did what was right and I will be judged by a much higher source. Thanks again to all that have wished me well.

help

Is that Sara's sister? cause she needs it too.

Linda Lee needs 9 inches shoved up her fat ass

Indy, maybe that's the way other people talk about your wife and daughter, Yes? You stupid douche bag...

Thrift store woman, if all care about is how much money the man has or makes? That makes you a fuckin whore bitch. Your'e probally a big fat welfare mother with three kids, got lucky somebody felt sorry for you and hired you at the thrift store.

If it had legs an ass and face Briggs would hit on it......IBC's sexual harrasment poster boy.......can you say summary judgement thank you very much CHA-CHING!!

Dallas Mole Thanks for your insight!! please keep us in the "KNOW" from Dallas.....Do you have any sense of where they are headed on the Engineering front nationwide?? WHO'S IN WHO'S OUT?? WHERE ARE WE HEADED.....

To Indianapolis,9 inches.Yeah right,/Why is it men are so full of shit.If you had 9 inches you wouldnt be a low life route driver.Some hot shot woman high roller would have already swooped you up.Unless of course you only have a face your mother would love.Yeah,I hit the nail on the head.Your stone ugly and living in a dream world.In fact,a Wonder ful world.

help help help help help help,,,,,,,,,,,

A few weeks back there was a lot of dicussion regarding the former Corporate Safety Manager Chris Kelly. I keep meaning to post on what really happened but kept forgetting. Here is what happened here in Dallas. Loeser hired a croney name Bill Plisga from Bimbo (they had let him go). Plisga was to fix the Work Comp mess and Chris would continue to lead the Safety Dept. and report to Plisga. It didn't take Plisga long to see how loyal the Safety Department was to Chris (due to his leadership) so there were discussions between Loeser and Plisga that those people would never follow Plisga with Chris around. So in the new management style Chris was allowed to believe he was part of the new team while he worked on a restructure. Chris and Plisga did not see eye to eye on what the new structure looked like but Plisga continued to tell Chris he was listening to his points. Then Plisga took what Chris had been working on made some very stupid changes and then called Chris and told him he was being let go. Reason given "we're going in a different direction" . This was true. The new direction was a stupid one that has seen an increase in injuries and work comp costs. What has Loeser and Jung done about it...NOTHING. I wanted to set the record straight on what happened behind the scenes. If you are a good leader of people and have been with the company for a long time. You are viewed as a threat, and they will find a way to get rid of you. I did not have a chance to say goodbye to Chris. Good luck to you. I hope someone gets the message to him.

Retire? They'll close this place down before I go....... But here's a great clip with Capt. Kirk...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0D78JtxmqI

Hodgkins,IL I am gods gift.If you seen this hammer between my legs, 9 inch of white soft meat. you wouldn`t be married!!!!!!!! I mean 9 inches of soft ,just think about if it was hard babe oh ya

Hey, Whats up, Dirty? Where have ya been, on vacation or something? What's happinging in your neck of the woods? How much longer before you can retire?

None of the thrift store wonder women are interested in any of you losers.You dont make enough money for us.Besides we have have husbands who make a comfortable living for us,so that we can work at the thrift stores just to have something to do with our time.Get a life and concentrate on your jobs.Stop thinking you are Gods gift to women because you are not.You are losers or you would have a real job.

If we had real managers instead of morons maybe this place would be a great place to work at again. Too many unqualified idiots running Decatur. Not a college education between any of them as far as I know. And it doesn't even take that to make a good manager. Any thought Decatur people?

RockyTop, If they ever decide to sell the Merita label those plants producing that label will then concentrate on the all the new Nature's Pride items that are being tested now.

Let's see......entire west coast, losing money......northwest, losing money........mountain region, losing money.......midwest , losing money.....southeast, losing money.....northeast losing money.....Yeah , we are losing money hand over fist and we will stay in business? get real everyone, it is over. We should all just walk off the job on Monday. After 22 years, I am done. I have a lead on a job and am taking a chance on it next week. Hope it works out, but who knows, I just can't take the crap here anymore. Poor management, bad product, terrible equipment, and noone cares. Good luck to all, I hope it works out for you, but I really doubt it will. We need to face it, IT IS OVER, WE ARE DONE. Again, good luck to you, but I am just walking away after 22 years of my like here. I am done. FED UP

Terminal Madness Envelopes The Planet...Blah, Blah, Blah.....

just picked up another run in worcester life is good

Old girls need love too! I'll take some since Laura will not give me any.

well we had more bread thrown away on second shift here. i saw it myself.

WHAT HAPPENS IF MERITA BRAND IS SOLD BONNVILLE?

To Mr. been there, done that of Glendale; You probably forgot, so allow me to rephrase that for you…”all the old girls are dogs, nobody would want to have sex with them, except Rob Briggs”

Thrift Stores closing as they become no profitable all through the united states all areas.Only depots will remain open.The ax will fall soon.

whats going on with them

Real deal,us bottom feeders have the attitude because of the management were under.We have no cotrol over the decissions being made in texasnow,or kc then,but we have to live with what happens from them!

the "path to no where" is what we got !

a thougt in Biddeford..... I'm really not sure what happened with the regional brand (Nissen), but i'm sure I could find out. What little I do know about the northeast ,was at one time it was very strong in Maine, RI, Mass, and parts of Conn. As you, I don't feel PTM is the complete anwser for making us profitable.

the coffin is closing....

Bakery sold!!!!!

SOLD!

I can't wait for this Path to Market to get rolling. Just hanging out here eating some BBQ and enjoying the hookers!!! Peace out!!!!!!

wheres boonville

I like big packages

If we are sold,hope they offer us some "early retirement packages". They will probally give us all the boot. Kick us to the curb.

Evander Hollyfield is the "Real Deal" Just kiddin ya real deal, i apoligize for some of the folks on this site. Most of us appreciate any input you might have, we are starving for some real information.

Dream on Happy Salesman, you probally never had any strange stuff in your pathtic life. 1st of all, not too many thrift stores left, 2nd all the old ladies you call girls are dogs, nobody would want to have sex with them.

were dooooooooomed

SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD

I feel sorry for you guys.You are the lowest paid bread guys.and the highest priced bread out there

Happy Boy- Tell me how to do it, I've been running the straight life for too long now getting to the age where i need some 'strange brew' without having to shell out 5,10,15k or lose my job.

There isn't a Thrift Store Girl who won't do a salesman. They wait for us to come in so they can service us. NO questions asked. No one gets caught and no one complains. It's all on the clock, tic tock!! Rick R leads the bunch.

ACHTUNG MIKE. You know exactly what you're talking about!!

So long Mort! How will get along without you?

Here in LR we still get trucks late..fired local loaders...get $10 to load flaming poo thrown on racks..nothing resembling our orders from "new" ordering system...we are not ptm here, yet..hate to think what rsrs in Memphis get for loads.

real deal! i am not sure if its JIm forbes or someone higher who has decided not to compete with the price wars going on here in maine and or northeast. in order to sell product you have to compete. and in todays market you can buy program premium made bread(etc, organic types) for well over a dollar a loaf cheaper. supers are demanding more private label heavy breads. we in maine had a very good regional brand(NISSEN) and ibc refuses to compete with other bakers to sell it. one baker the same loaf is $2.00 the other its $2..50, program is $1.99. ours is $3.59 and the quality is not consistant. real deal, it doesnt take a fucking genius to see why our sales are down.Ripplewood who was suppose to help infuse the money to save us will probably end us. we are told time and time again ptm wont happen here as we are too few in metro population. but who knows. and yes IBC is almost a year late. with no real answer why! our so called big wigs could at least tell us why their attemp at ptm is so late. and i am sure without being told PTM is the dagger . the end of rsr jobs. even our bosses admit ptm will lower rsr pay as you will not have supers. you will have c,d stores. or if your lucky a walgreens,or target, or cvs. ($100 stop 50% stales). what a fucking mess. to the person who wrote about bad moral at the bottom of the ladder. do you fucking think your going to be happy losing sales and concessions of over $150 to $250 and more aweek and your company is give you no tools to compete. we were all told a town meetings that we were going to take back the streets. ripplewood and ibc were going to be agressive in winning back sales. WELL PEOPLE! IT NEVER HAPPENED.so dont equate bad management with bad salespeople as to why we are getting our asses kicked. if i was incharge and could i would dissolve this site in a heartbeat. way too much rumor crap. in my opinion: PTM COULD (AND THATS COULD) POSSIBLY WORK IN BIG METRO AREAS IF YOU COMBINE BREAD AND A CAKE DELIVERY. BUT LOTS OF JOBS WILL BE LOST FOR SURE. ibc the doom and gloom company. its too bad its this way. sorry for the long post. and yes i am sick of losing so much money in my pay. the way we operate there are no streets to take back.

hey real deal - "testing path to market" is about to start? News Flash for you - they are a full year behind !! it was suppose to be the only wat out - not a "test" !!!! no direction at all !

Mr. Mole.... This is exactly what I'm talking about with this site. I tried posting a comment on this site, and you took me for the Anon. in K.C. I can assure you, i'm not the person that you have been having a pissing contest with. I had seen a post that you recently wrote, and came to the conclusion you don't know what your talking about, based on your comment in regards to Path to Market. Once again, if you know whats going on in Dallas, wouldn't you have known that they are testing Path to Market starting on this coming Monday 3/8/10 in Memphis?

Hi, Dallas mole !!!!

Anon in KC. And who am I. Either say it or you're the one full of shit. And don't give some half-ass excuse why you can't. Prove to these folks you know your ass from a hole in the ground. Oh, that's right you don't know. I'm the real deal and I know what's going on behind the scenes.

I have never posted on this site before, but have visited it a few times to see what kind of things people have posted. It seems that a hand full of people have nothing better to do but complain and bitch about everything wrong with the company, but offer very little resolve to the real problems. I say a hand full of people, assuming we employ 20,000 people. I like many people on this site have been with this company just short of 30 years. I started as a RSR, and have held different management positions within the company. To the recent post as to selling off the different brands, who knows, I guess anythings possible. To the recent person that posted about claiming he knows whats going on in the company in Dallas, and asked about nothing happening with Path To Market, by making that comment he proved he has no idea whats happening in the company. "News Flash" ...... Testing for Path To Market is starting in Memphis on 3/8/2010. There have been alot of wrongs by management and by employees over the years. The one post that I saw from last month that seemed to sum everything up was, it seems that our people have given up and there has been greed by the union and also by the company. The "lack of leadership at the top and bad attitudes at the bottom" is a bad combination for any company. Remember, as the sales force you control a big part in the success of the company. Work Safe.

Ripplewood doesn't care if we sell crap in a can as long as there's a return on the money

this company is only trying to smoke-screening Ripplewood with the new products that have came out with I really only deal with bread but in the last year: (all dates arent exact) March 2009- Natures Pride (killed off Butternut white and honey wheat in my area) June 2009- Brought just the butternut white back October 2009 - Danish/bear claws March 2009- NP oven classics I know Im missing something in there, I dont do cake,yet

Yes, since the bread came back to Calif. we are combo routes. We were informed recently the Natures Pride wide pans have been discontinued in the only major chain who authorized it from the begining(last july). Bread not doing to good in Calif. Recently lost the Svenhards danish pastry line, now the wide pans at our best chain account. Wouldn't be surprized if they sell the bread off here too. Or worse! Mgmt. seems pretty scared, somethings up.

Name: THE TRUE PICTURE Date: 2010-03-04 Date: Web site Comment: mip are the breads in your kroger and walmart system not here kroger june walmart ? how do they drop the ball so much smart is not in walmart yet and I heard that nothing is in kroger yet.. you think that when they brought these new breads onto the market someone would have went to walmart and said "we need space for this new shit" but no... they do that at other companys not ours

It doesn't take a brain surgon to figure it out. We have been saying it all along, it's just a matter of time. I like the circleing turd analogy.

I think we are in the process of being broken up. I have been through this before with another employer. This is right down the same path. I have no insight as to what is being sold to whom, but I would feel safe in saying that Hostess brands(IBC) will not be the same as it is 6 months from now.

boy, we sure lost alot of money today. our bun mixer broke down big time. i bet tens of thousands of dollars lost no kidden......

LIQUIDATE

I ordered the new oven classic stuff and the new "Smart" bread today. I hope it works, I dont think it will. I believe the smart bread is the same thing as wonder "fans" and they put it in a green bag. BREAD DOESNT SELL IN GREEN BAGS. Get your head out of your ass JUNG

"One Who Cares", who did we sell the Merita label to? And when will we lose the label to the "other Company"? Will we still stay on the market here and operate with Wonder/Nature's Pride and Hostess?

This company is on the right track fuc sarla lee

I know who you are dallas mole you are full of shit.they are not selling.

and let me just add this. What happened to Path to Market. That was the savior of the company. Loeser was put in charge of that. What's happening on that front. Nothing. Now ask yourself why, if that was the way of the future. Answer, because there is no future. Craig, Dave and Gary are walking away with millions and could care less about the rest. You know it's true, you were just hoping you weren't being played for fools. Sorry, we all were.

Hey Someone Who Cares. If the company is looking at only selling the parts they are losing their shirts on, that would be the whole shootin match. The company is NOT hitting any of the goals set for any of the brands. And Ripplewood is in serious negotiations to sell off more than just Merita. The Merita sale was to test the interest level.

Guys relax most areas are not going to be sold just parts of southeast. Just the areas company is losing its shirt on. This will open the rest of your eyes to realize if you can't carry your load your business unit might be next. Merita label is sold that much is true. For the rest of us let's work harder so mr collins don't sell us all off !!!!!!

Intheknow is simply impressed with himself and doesn't KNOW shit. If you go back and read many of his previous doom and gloom posts, he has been dead wrong on everyone of them. Even IF the company (Ripplewood) is considering liquidation and they may be, I'm sure Intheknow would be one of the last to know about it. If he is truly "In The Know" and still working here then he is quite simply an idiot!

DAMN!!!!!!!!!! get your heads up! HOSTESS BRANDS ON THREE!!!!!!!!!!!

I see Sare Lee is back posting again. Shouldn't these guys be out there (kicking our butts) on the market? I guess posting on our web site is more important

now all of sudden some lame ass called in the know knows that we rsrs are in trouble. well in the know we rsrs gave up the most in concessions. i think your full of shit. you have too much time on your hands to be spreading so much negative. if it happens (closing jobs) after just one year of coming out of bankrupcy then i would think this company fucked us all and so did the union too. you cant trust anyone. this whole country is fucked up. so why are we any different.

is it just me or has the negative come back more strongly since california was reopened. i rarely see any good reports from cal. once closed for a while in the south customers have gone to different breads. from what we know cakes were still on routes? right? why isnt the union involved if we all fear we are closing! sounds to me like we are spreading our own rumors. lets ask shop stewards what is going on? you cant rely on just rumors! wtf i dont trust anyone. even in the know is not in the know! this is a billion dollar outfit to have just someone saying they know whats going on and ripplewwod is selling brand names. you would think the shop stewards would know what going on! i agree always negative with ibc. but remember we lose jobs unions lose dues.

lou la la it must be nice in dream land. we will get our runs back or we will come down and bump. just like the nadick boys came up here. go back to sleep now and count those sheep.

IS THIS JUSY HAPPENING IN CALIFORNIA

the end in ten

I believe the Dallas Mole and I have offices very close together. What he says is true. It is over and everything is being sold off. The cake plants and workers should be fairly safe, other companies will need the bakeries and people to run them. Route sales, transports, and bread plants and workers are another story. If any of the bread plants are kept, it will be minimal, competition still has plenty of capacity in their own plants, they just want a few of the labels. Route drivers will be in trouble, it won't take too many new routes for the new owners, they will just add products onto their existing routes. Good luck to all, to bad it had to come down to this, it didn't have to happen. Over and out!

D fucking D is just nuts.

It can't be over- I didn't get my money back! HA HA

It's over boys ! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night !

Groucho said back in 2007 IBC was circling the bowl. He was right. You are all screwed. I hope the best for you all. BREAD IS DEAD.

Its over folks...just a matter of time. Things are worse now then before Ripplewood took over! I hope Bimbo buys Hostess and Homepride and some of us keep our jobs. Routes will be added but only the # of people needed will be retained by seniority, no dovetail, they didn't when they bought Webers. Sara Lee is in the mix and in that case there will be cake routes for sale. So. Cal Mgmnt should be ashamed!! All of you who work in So. Cal. know what i'm talking about!!!

Fly was right all along Merita label sold. Sara lee paid 50 million. March 15 press release !!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm actually in Dallas but there's city listed for that on this site. Ripplewood has run out of patience and involved in very serious negotiations to sell the brands. The main stumbling block is trying to sell the bread lines. Sara Lee, Flowers and our old friend Bimbo are bidding against each other for the cake. Sorry folks but it is over. Why do you think they are keeping all the worthless managers here in Dallas. No sense in trying to replace them. The company will be gone by the end of the year.

HEY RENT A CLERK, JEALOUSY WILL GET YOU NO WHERE, BEAUTIFUL BETTY WHITE

Once upon a time ibc weber bread was # 1 in SO CA, There was a mix group of employees making it happen, Then hr started hiring only one race of employees , you know the rest of the story, OCT. 2007, PLANT CLOED, NO LONGER IN BUSINESS

Hey rent a clerk,go fuck yourself.

Typical bidd. trailer driver cant spell for shit, got news for you, the only thing your bumping is the sheep in your back yard. Take a very good look at your contract you idiot. The teamsters have no strength up there. Im sorry to inform you.

Who is this,dirtys boy friend. Don`t let homo find out

What you are smelling is, the breeze blowing past your ass into your face.

Yes my shoes are very BIG. I can't wait for Town Halls. "On the road again"

man I`m starting to smell something ,dirty probally getting on here now

hey betty white how about wearing something that isn't from the kids dept. your too old and you look like a ho bag......... don't come to the store with those awful looking striped pants and that big ass belt from the 60s. get a make over and tell lisa she needs a over hall too. hags i tell you hags.

if the work goes to worcster then we'll follow it there and bump who's ever in the way. the teamster way. not the we have to get our work from someone else whining cry baby lou.

Good lookin truck,I hope all of us get one of these.We would only need a chauffers license.Hopefully uses less gas too.These old trucks need to be put to pasture.The world is changing.Babyboomers are a dying breed.The Generation X ers are taking over and face it,they want new stuff,and they are not having kids.Less kids, mean less product.Truth be told,I have worked here so long,I dont even eat this stuff.Its time to down size and change product to a healthier product.Focus on the whole grains,and oatmeal breads.Yeah,back to the basics.

THIS IS WHAT OUR NEW TRUCKS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE .http://www.flickr.com/photos/7718206@N06/show/

Remember when we had oatmeal,multi-grain,honey wheat,stoneground wheat,potatoe,etc breads?We were ahead of the game at that time because we were inovative.Who gave the go ahead to discontinue those breads?Especially when they were just coming into the limelight.Like Michael Jackson we were ahead of our time.Whoever was in charge then,had a vision,whoever took over for that guy,not only dropped the ball,and did not follow the vision,he should be shot.He has single handed murdered this company.Those priced right breads,which are now in demand,would have carried this company,not the high price Nature Pride Breads.Also,the box cakes that you took to church suppers,or aunt maudes house,or picnics,should never have been discontinued.You could takes those cakes and not leave your containers behind.The angel food cakes with the pink and chocolate icing also should have never been discontinued.Its decisions like this,not hurt our company.The carrot cake also was a big hit.The brownie.Who is in charge of these major changes?I think this company needs a site,and a person in charge that says,yes I will try this,yes I will make the neccessary changes to make a profit.It is quiet apparent,this company is not about profit,but failure.Unfortunately we are apart of this failure.Sorry guys.

Once upon a time,in SoCal,the order of bread companies was,1. Orowheat,2.IBC Wonder,3.Sara Lee,4. a variety of small bread companies too small to mention.Then the suits at IBC decided to close the bread business in SoCal. Now that IBC decided to start the bread business again the order is now,1.Orowheat,2.Sara Lee,3. Aunt Hatties,4.Bimbo,and rounding out the list,5. IBC. WTF? All this with the same clowns in charge.

Mr. Harry Ballsack was here!

You know what I wish?The powers that be would just give us our pink slips and put us out of our misery.Leaving in fear is no way to live,I have high blood pressure,high colesterol,and elevated diabetes.Stress has always played a factor in all of these areas.Good Luck to all of you,and my all of us find peace throughout this whole process.May it be done with by summer so we can enjoy it.god speed.

When I grow up I wanna be just like matt Stringer, but wait a minute he never grew up yet.

i will say that rumors will always be part of this business. i dont like ibc anymore than the next guy. but i still need a job and after 30 years in this i have seen it all. too me bimbo has been the satin of this business the last year and a half. their sales staff doesnt know crap. but they lower prices and price is what counts today. the private label has almost destroyed the whole bread market as well as the fucking walmarts, targets, and etc. can only hope one day thousands of walmart employees unionize. now back to hostess brands. i dont know who is at fault but its seems more today than in the past. THIS COMPANY REFUSES TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY ARE OUT IN THE REAL WORLD. THE WORKER BEES.IBC IS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT RELOCATING HIGH RANKING MANAGEMENT TO TEXAS THAN RUN THE COMPANY. DOOM AND GLOOM. no easy way to make profit. i could care less about ripplewood. i know they could care less about the working class. i hope we make it to at least have a job and some benefits.

Great post kansas city.

yes I agree about Sara Lee employees posting here to stir up discontent. As I posted last week, they should be paying attention to what is lurking in their shadows! Something is coming to bite them in the ass and HB employees will get the last laugh. To exploit others misfortunes will come back to haunt them. Revenge is a dish best served cold!

i just had a transport driver do me in his truck it was great cream everywere what have you done Biff ?

I love smoking a big fatty and reading all this drama. You take what you read put your own twist on it then we have todays gosip so awsome. Saw some guy from ripplewood with a guy from Bimbo and a rep from Century 21 they told me parts where being sold off ASAP. Bimbo and Counrty Kitchen to take over the Northeast. Bimbo will buy the Hostess side and Country will take the bread all should be done by April 1.

I said it before and i say it again Biddeford will be stripped and sold and no work for trailer drivers ha ha ha

I think the "UNDERCOVER BOSS" rode with me yesterday. We took extra cake and bread and and sold it to by our burritoes.We milked the clock for 16 hours. I think he was impressed with how I suck up to Rick Romero. He was also impressed with how I stabbed all my co-workers in the back. I can't wait to see this aired on TV.

D.D GO BACK TO WHERE EVER YOU CAME FROM .............

Our plant manager never finished high school.He started on the floor never could make the same icing twice(couldn't read recipes).Good freinds with ron wilson.

dirty, those are some pretty big shoes to fill.

Dirty- you could turn Jessica on better than I did, you twisted, kinky fuck. After you took that pay cut last year you probably can't afford it

When I grow up I want to be just like Gary K. Wandschneider.

I AM thankful I still have a job..... for at least this week I and others have been looking behind us for years now (since 2004) waiting to see if we get a "pink slip"

There have been alot of comments today. Remenber to be thankful that you have a job. It could be worse. Sara Lee drivers ----- you need to find something else to do than to post here trying to lower our moral. Really!!! Get a life you guys. I know who you are.

You people worry too much, relax, everything is going to be just fine.

new trucks,60,wildcard,hostess!new snacks,fatten them up!slim them down in spring with 100 cal. cakes! whoa! phantom stockwhen hostess goes public!whoa!

The reason you are driving old trucks is your sold. Man you guys are so stupid !!!!

Just a question for any of you.Are we(NE)the only one that drive shit box's daily?Mines a 1986 and drives like it's about to fall apart.Whats the speed limint a truck is supose to go on a highway to be considerd safe?Ours do about 48 going downhill and 40 or less going up one.2nd gear on a surfce street hill.whining the piss out of it.Anyone else out there with the same problem?

When the union contract expired, the company locked the workers out. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

When is the Hiway to Heaven routes going too start? Oop's I mean path too market.

all good questions W.A. it use to be state of the art but theres nothing left to it. just a skeleton of a building.to bad it was a good thing years ago. but now who knows. the banks want there money and i dont blame them.

does anyone remember at the teamsters meeting for concessions the teamsters telling us ripplewood will have a short leash on jung. i am not so sure its all about jung. i think it is also these so called ones incharge at the profit centers. this company is slipping fast (again) we are told cant have many specials but yet these morons are running every variety of cake on deal most of the time. and from what others type on here seems to be just cake deals. wonder is just so so. sounds to me like some regions dont sell wonder bread well. who the hell is SKULL. the northeast seems really bad. do the route trucks in maine stay at the bakery! i thought maine had a state of the art bakery! why isnt the bakery running around the clock?

The bottom line is we are not the only bakeys out there now ! Not like it use to be.We probally have to any of them right now.they are probally going to close even more I would think.. I hope not!!!! Just think about it if they kept all the bakerys now.EVERYBODY WOULD PROBALLY BE MAKING ABOUT $7.00 A HOUR. They know where they want these bakerys located at.YA there probally pulling machines to take to other plants and thats ging to stay and you will probally go .THINK ABOUT IT..

there takin out 5 strap and the oven. to make money for ripplewood. the other bakerys dont have equipment worth anything. it wont be long a year maybe. way to go craig most ceos would have been fired by now!!!! maybe they could rent warehouse space

who knows why.probably someone to blame when shit hits the fan. and just a general waste of money as always.

Hey Biddeford, what is left there to strip out? donuts, pies, muffins have been taken from there, what more can be taken before they close the doors? why then are they looking for an Asst Engineer?

how much more equipment can they strip out of this place before they realize theres nothing left. to rob from peter to pay paul. craig jung is a joke. he needs to go without a doubt.

this company is so screwed up. with just the few who type on here you can imagine how bad the moral is. new line of NATURES PRIDE ROLLS coming we cant even sell the normal line of rolls. if natures pride is not on deal it doesnt sell. at least i use to sell bakers inn. fuck ripplewood. they could care less about us having a job or not. hedgefund companies are for making profit. if they dont make profit they sell off pieces. the teamsters arent much better. i see the newest gimmick in our medical is now higherco pays and or deductables for specialized services. so people thats a higher co pay for anything but primary care doctor. oh yeah i forgot. SKULL GO FUCK YOUR SELF. YOU ARE THE MOST ANNOYING DICK WHO COMES ON HERE. YOU HAVENT A CLUE.

Big fucking deal! So this guy tries to get some strange pussy and it backfired on the poor fuck. Like no one here has tried that before. Instead of coming down on the poor retard, we should all be congratulating him. I tried it and it backfired on me too, I almost lost my job!

FUCK IBC (hostess brands)

This should not go away, there's no excuse what this guy did. He can say that it was a low point of his life but that would be a lie. When your making 6 mil. a year with Pepsi there are no low points. Besides, who is worth 6 mil a year? So if your making 6mil a year, go out on your wife, you end up making 1.5mil at Hostess. Yuk. Resign now.

Hey St Louis thanks for the cake.Nice of you to prop us up.

http://www.circlingturd.com/gary k.wandscheider/cyberstud....I

if they hired dellaringa no hiring surprises me !!!!

Wonder how they missed that on this guy's background check? Do ya think Jung kinda slipped this one thru. Try to get that one by your HR dept today...on just a lousy DUI. I guess different standards for those how make the rules....hey? Take notes everyone...this is precedent setting.

Unbelievable; This guy Gary 'Wash the Fuck" is making 1.5 million bucks a year with us?? Highest paid person in our Company...and he was hired and given that much money after being a sexual predator with Pepsi?? Talk about the 'Good Old Boys Club' of the old IBC...cmon Jung, with the fuck, you hired him...this is sick...you need to resign. Ripplewood,,,,do you want your fuckin investment to be run by losers like this. I have no respect what so ever for the company I work for...and never will. I hope we die....and die soon. I gave up significant amounts of my pay so they could pay some fuckin pervert 1.5 million a year...to do nothing.

Are you saying Gary K. Wandschneider is the craigslist killa?..... Say it ain't so?

to ------Name: Anonymous Date: 2010-03-01 Location: Location:St. Louis, MO Comment: they are going to take $30.00 a week from your paycheck, so that you can keep your job until june, or sooner, until the emporia plants new line is ready, to take the product from st. louis, good luck... our response..................................................> I wish $30 a week was all they wanted from us in concessions they wanted us (in the thrift stores) to take $3 to $3.50 a hr paycut and agree to no guaranteed full time- any more that we would agree to be part time - no insurance- no pension - no plans to give the concessions back to us if things improved we unanimously agreed- no way

hostess brands news look at tracked.com

year to date profit -$166.82m

If you're a public figure having an extramarital affair, be prepared for the possibility that it might land on the front page of the tabloids and you'll lose your job. That's what happened to top Pepsi Bottling Group executive Gary Wandschneider. Pepsi Bottling fired him Thursday after launching an internal investigation. He had been with the company 24 years, working his way up from production manager. The 54-year-old multimillionaire had a liaison with 22-year-old Jessica Wolcott, who he met in February on craigslist.com. A month later, after exchanging e-mails and photos, he met her in person at a Mount Kisco, N.Y., bar. Then she began shaking him down for $125,000 by threatening to tell his wife, children and bosses he was trolling the Internet for women. "I'm sure this will be an unpleasant surprise. I'm sure when your wife finds out that you've been looking for a fill-in for her ... it will be unpleasant for her, too," Wolcott e-mailed Wandschneider, a father of three and executive vice president for worldwide operations at Westchester, N.Y.-based Pepsi Bottling, according to court documents. The court documents do not identify Wandschneider or Pepsi Bottling, but a federal law enforcement source and Pepsi Bottling confirmed he was the person targeted by Wolcott. Trying to remain anonymous in her threats, Wolcott used the e-mail account "cheater_eater@hotmail.com." "Here's hoping your life is still a living hell and worrying every day that your name will be in the news or on a TV movie for what you've done to your wife," Wolcott threatened him, according to the court documents. Wandschneider transferred $125,000 to Wolcott's online account -- but only after he alerted the FBI, which provided the money and set up a sting operation to arrest her, the court documents said. Wolcott pleaded guilty to charges of extortion in U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., and is free on bail awaiting sentencing, scheduled for February. Wandschneider's story is hardly an isolated case. But legal experts say it's difficult to gauge how frequent cases like this are

Hi Skull !!!!!

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RM,is this something that might happen or more?if so then is a time frame been said?thx for any info,i'm not surprised by news like this,just tired of being a mushroom if u know what i mean.

many workers here are feeling that ripplewood does not have a long term goal of keeping this company' soon were afraid they will sell this company in bits and pieces and if this isnt true please come to our plant and tell us so. once again we invite ripplewood to come here and talk to us with their plan to move ahead.

they are going to take $30.00 a week from your paycheck, so that you can keep your job until june, or sooner, until the emporia plants new line is ready, to take the product from st. louis, good luck.....

Go online to any good search engine and check out the Executive V.P. of Operations in Irving, TX - Gary K. Wandschneider. Making $1,500,000. plus - at Hostess Brands, nothing is too good for an on-line predator. You expect this company to treat its employees right??? It's a madhouse from the top on down.

If Ripplewood had any long term interest in the company their management team would be in the bakeries talking with employees. They have no interest in saving the company. The Dallas Group is not hitting their projected goals. So Ripplewood will get their money back the only way they can. Cut it up and sell the pieces.