Apollo, Metropoulos Leverage Twinkies for Dividends in Loan Deal
After dismissing a sale and initial public offering, Hostess Brands LLC still wants to reward its private-equity owners. It’s opting to pay them by levering up instead.
Two years after Apollo Global Management LLC and Metropoulos & Co. acquired the maker of Twinkies from liquidation, Hostess is selling $1.23 billion of term loans. Of that, $905 million will be used to pay a dividend to its shareholders, according to Standard & Poor’s. That’s more than double what they paid for the business… READ MORE
Christine Idzelis and Sridhar Natarajan
Apollo Global Management
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