Employer · WARN Act history · Other Services
Hostess Brands
1,083 workers across 3 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 1,083
- Workers cut
- 3
- WARN notices
- 3
- States
- 361
- Avg / notice
Hostess Brands has 3 recorded WARN filings affecting 1,083 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Hostess Brands has 3 recorded filings covering 1,083 workers across 3 states, primarily WA, the 144th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Hostess Brands is a minor share of Other Services WARN activity — 0.2% of the sector's 460,348 workers across 3,497 employers, ranking #38 in Other Services.
Hostess Brands WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Hostess Brands city concentration · single-city dominant
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
99.3% of named-city WARN workers for Hostess Brands sit in Statewide (856 of 862).
Lead city Statewide · 99.3% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer HOSTESS-BRAN · Hostess Brands 1,083 workers · 3 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNDER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-LIGHT 3 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #144
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-UNDER 58d
- STAT-MULTI 3 states
- BOOK-MULTI 3 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 2C/1L
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Hostess Brands WARN filings · notice runway
Top 3 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Statewide, IN · Layoff · Manufacturing 856 workers · filed May 4, 2012 · 58d runway
- VA · Closure · Other Services 221 workers · filed May 4, 2012 · 61d runway
- Bellingham, WA · Closure · Other Services 6 workers · filed May 7, 2012 · 57d runway
Median forward runway across 3 dated filings: 58 days (2 under 60d · 1 at/above 60d ).
Where Hostess Brands Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Hostess Brands is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#144 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Other Services
- First Notice
- May 4, 2012
- Latest Notice
- May 7, 2012
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: May 2012.
WARN Notice History
2012
Bellingham, WA · Other Services
Effective: Jul 3, 2012
6
workers
Filed May 7, 2012
Statewide, IN · Manufacturing
Effective: Jul 1, 2012
856
workers
Filed May 4, 2012
VA · Other Services
Effective: Jul 4, 2012
221
workers
Filed May 4, 2012
Questions about this Hostess Brands record
What is the largest Hostess Brands WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Statewide, IN on May 4, 2012, covering 856 workers in Manufacturing.
Where were Hostess Brands's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Bellingham and Statewide; together they form 2 facility closures and 1 mass-layoff filing sourced from Washington ESD and Indiana DWD and Virginia Works. States represented in this record: IN, VA, WA.
Where is Hostess Brands's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
99.3% of named-city WARN workers for Hostess Brands sit in Statewide (856 of 862).
Does Hostess Brands's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
All 3 filings fall in 2012, so the record describes a concentrated episode rather than a multi-year cadence.
How much advance notice appears in Hostess Brands's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway is between 30 and 59 days; the WARN pay tool can value the gap, but only a qualified adviser can determine whether an exception applies.
See also: WA WARN filings · Other Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Hostess Brands notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.