Forbes speculated the brands would follow to another billionaire-led company, the Mexico-based Grupo Bimbo.
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The deal is, as all deals are, subject to higher offers from other companies like Grupo Bimbo.
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Bimbo, of course, still could enter a bid that tops the Apollo-Metropoulos offer.
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His family kept a genet cat, a duiker and a baboon called Bimbo.
There's been a lot of talk about Watergate lately, most of it unintentional apophasis (or "Bimbo, " to use the technical term).
Today, with a taste still for American companies, Bimbo may just bite.
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When the news that Hostess would liquidate, shutting down its 36 plants and selling its more than 30 brands, first broke, FORBES speculated that Bimbo would grow sweet on Hostess.
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Acquisitions are, indeed, at the very center of Bimbo.
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But even before 2007, Bimbo seemed sweet on Hostess.
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Bimbo, as well as Flowers Food, are in official talks, and Hostess may disclose the name of the bidders of the up-coming bankruptcy auction as soon as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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The two insomniacs quickly find an intimacy with each other that has gone missing in Bob's marriage and can't ever have existed between Charlotte and John, who's more at home with his pal Kelly (Anna Faris), a motor-mouthed bimbo in town for a press junket to sell her latest movie in the all-important Japanese market.
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