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Former Hostess Bakery in Biddeford for Sale for $8.45M

Josie Huang

The former Hostess Brands bakery in Biddeford is for sale, putting an end to former workers' hopes that their jobs might be revived.

Hostess Brands shut down the plant when it filed for bankruptcy in 2012.  Five hundred Maine workers - and 18,000 workers nationwide - lost their jobs.

Hostess was subsequently acquired by Flowers Foods, based in Georgia. Flowers is asking $8.45 million for the Biddeford plant.

In an email to the Portland Press Herald, a Flowers Foods official says the Biddeford bakery doesn't fit with the company's strategic plan, and is among former Hostess plants that are in areas where Flowers has "sufficient production capacity."

The 265,000-square-foot facility was built in 1998, and sits on a 40-acre lot.  Biddeford has assessed the property at nearly $17 million.
 

Barbara grew up in Biddeford, Maine. She earned a master’s in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s in English from the University of Southern Maine.