In early September 2010, a 2 to 1 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board affirmed the June 2009 decision of an administrative law judge that Stella D'oro violated federal labor law by refusing to furnish detailed financial statements to the workers' union to support claims of needing contract concessions to survive. The Bronx manufacturing location, which was not included in the sale, closed after the sale, and was demolished in spring 2012. It thereafter began manufacturing Stella D'oro products in Lance's Ashland, Ohio, bakery. On September 8, 2009, Lance announced it was purchasing the Stella D'oro brand as well as certain manufacturing equipment and inventory. The bakery in Bronx for sale pictured in August 2010īrynwood earned negative attention for its role in the work stoppage and sale of Stella D'oro, including a reference in an op-ed piece by the AFL–CIO's Richard Trumka, published in The Wall Street Journal in April 2010. In September 2009, Brynwood announced the sale of Stella D'oro to Lance, a large manufacturer of snack foods, which intended to relocate Stella D'Oro's production to a non-union facility in Ashland, Ohio. That same month, the company announced it would close its facility. Īfter more than 11 months of striking by its workers, the company was ordered by the National Labor Relations Board to reinstate the workers, give them back pay, and restart collective bargaining. On August 14, 2008, two weeks after their contract expired, 138 workers of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union, Local 50, went on strike citing proposed pay and benefit cuts, and later picketed the company's attempt to bring in replacement workers. In 2006, Brynwood Partners bought the Stella D'oro Biscuit Co. Īs of 1992, when the company was acquired by Nabisco, they had 410 workers in the Bronx locations and "an additional 165 employees in plants in Illinois and California." Buyout, strike and closing (Phil) Zambetti later became the company's CEO. This early success led the company to relocate to a building at 237th and Broadway, in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. Early on they made their cookies " pareve" (with neither meat nor dairy products), which appealed to a large and loyal New York kosher market. The biscuits produced were less sweet than other Italian baked goods and marketed as an accompaniment to coffee and tea.
The two later founded the Stella D'Oro bakery, which evolved into the Stella D'oro Biscuit Company. He married his wife, Angela, "an expert baker in her own right" in 1928. Joeseph, an immigrant from Trieste, Italy, began working in New York City bakeries after his arrival in the U.S.
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