Mix a peanut butter and jelly with a Twinkie and what do you get? A snack worth $5.6 billion, apparently. That's the price tag J.M. Smucker Co. paid to acquire Hostess Brands, including debt, with ...

Hostess, the maker of snacks such as Twinkies and HoHos, is being sold to J.M. Smucker in a cash-and-stock deal worth nearly $6 billion. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 11, 2023.) ...

Mix a peanut butter and jelly with a Twinkie and what do you get? A snack worth $5.6 billion, apparently. That's the price tag J.M. Smucker Co. paid to acquire Hostess Brands, including debt, with ...

JM Smucker — the 126-year-old maker of fruit spreads, Jif peanut butter and Folgers coffee — announced on Monday that it will acquire Twinkie maker Hostess Brands in a $5.6 billion deal.

Hostess, the maker of Twinkies and Ho Hos, is being purchased by J.M. Smucker in a $5.6 billion deal. The two companies announced the transaction Monday, with the jelly maker saying that the ...

Mix a peanut butter and jelly with a Twinkie and what do you get? A snack worth $5.6 billion, apparently. That's the price tag J.M. Smucker Co. paid to acquire Hostess Brands, including debt, with ...

Twinkies maker Hostess Brands sold to J.M. Smucker for $5.6 billion For Hostess, the deal with the peanut-butter-and-jelly conglomerate is a sweet win after not one, but two bankruptcies.

Jelly maker J.M. Smucker is buying Twinkie owner Hostess Brands for $5.6 billion, or $34.25 a share. Hostess shareholders will receive $30 in cash and .03002 shares of Smucker’s stock for each ...