Bakeries

Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC) is the largest wholesale baker and distributor of fresh bakery products in the United States, and is the owner of the Hostess, Wonder Bread, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake's brands. For many years it was based at 12 East Armour Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. After it emerged from bankruptcy in 2009 it announced plans to move to Dallas, Texas
Ralph Leroy Nafziger founded Interestate in 1930 in Kansas City as a wholesaler selling bread loaves wrapped in gingham wrapping to grocery stores. In 1937 Interstate merged with the Chicago baker Schulze Baking Company.In 1943 it acquired Supreme Baking Company in Los Angeles. In 1950 it bought O'Rourke Baking Company ofBuffalo, New York
In the 1950s and early 1960s purchases included Ambrosia Cake Company, the Remar Baking Company, the Butter Cream Baking Company, Campbell-Sell Baking Company, the Kingston Cake Bakery, Cobb's Sunlit Bakery, Schall Tasty Baking Company, Sweetheart Bread Company, and Hart's Bakeries.
1975 it was acquired by Data Processing Financial and General Corporation, a computer leasing company, after computer systems leased from the DPF&G turned into out to be an expensive and obsolete when IBM changed its pricing structure (which in turn would would draw IBM into antitrust battles) The name was changed to DPF and the headquarters moved to Hartsdale, New York.