Interstate Brands Corporation - Hostess Brands - Specimen Stock Certificate

Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Old HB, Inc., which was known as Hostess Brands from 2009 to 2013 and was founded in 1930 as Interstate Bakeries Corporation, operated as a wholesale baker and distributor of bakery products in the United States. Prior to its closure and liquidation in 2012, it owned several brands including Hostess, Wonder Bread, Nature's Pride, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake's. For a significant period, the company was referred to as Interstate Bakeries and was located at 12 East Armour Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. In 2009, following its emergence from a bankruptcy in 2004, the company rebranded itself as Hostess Brands and relocated its headquarters to Irving, Texas. In January 2012, Hostess Brands sought bankruptcy protection once more.

On November 16, 2012, the company submitted a motion to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in White Plains, requesting to cease operations and liquidate its assets. The motion was approved on November 21, with a judge consenting to the sale of the Hostess brands. Currently, the Hostess and Dolly Madison brands are produced by Hostess Brands, which is now headquartered in Lenexa, Johnson County, Kansas. The origins of the company trace back to Nafziger Bakeries, established by Ralph Leroy Nafziger in a church basement located at 6th and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City in 1905. Nafziger expanded the bakery operations and acquired rival businesses. In 1925, he sold Nafziger to Purity Bakeries (which later became American Bakeries) and gained a controlling stake in Schulze Baking Company along with its Butternut Breads brand.