Dolly Madison
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| Product type | Snack cakes |
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| Owner | Hostess Brands |
| Country | United States |
| Markets | North America |
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| Products | Zingers, Fruit and Chocolate and Vanilla Pies, Pecan Twirls |
Dolly Madison is an American bakery brand owned by Hostess Brands, selling packaged baked snack foods. It is best known for its long marketing association with the Peanuts animated TV specials.
History
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In 1937, Ralph Leroy Nafziger started a snack cake brand in Georgia called Dolly Madison. The name was inspired by first lady Dolley Madison, who was known for her elegant parties, but with a different spelling of her first name. The brand's slogan was "Cakes and pastries fine enough to serve at the White House."[1] A Dolly Madison Bakery appears in the 1932 movie Officer 13 and was named after Dolley Madison, the wife of President James Madison. [2] The name was also used for a successful ice cream brand sold for decades in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, with a logo featuring a silhouette of Dolly Madison.
The snack cake brand was among the products liquidated by Hostess when it announced plans to cease business on November 16, 2012. When Apollo Global Management acquired Hostess Brands' Twinkies in January 2013, they also acquired the rights to the Dolly Madison snack cake brands, as well as the official corporate name to Dolly Madison and Hostess Brands, with plans to resume production of the products.[3][4]
Marketing
[edit]In marketing, Dolly Madison snacks are probably best remembered for their long association with characters from Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. Charlie Brown and his friends appeared on Dolly Madison packages and in television commercials in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The bakery, along with Coca-Cola and McDonald's, was a major sponsor of the Peanuts animated specials telecast on CBS during that period. Each pie flavor was sold with a different character on the wrapper, including:
- Charlie Brown – cherry and banana crème
- Linus van Pelt – apple
- Lucy van Pelt – lemon
- Schroeder – berry
- Sally Brown – coconut crème and pineapple
- Frieda – chocolate
- Peppermint Patty – strawberry and peach
- Marcie – Boysenberry
The wrappers were later redesigned and featured Snoopy on all the flavors. Charlie Brown was also on Zingers packages wearing a baseball cap. Snoopy and Linus were also on Gems donut packages as well.
During the period when the packages featured Peanuts characters, the advertising agency for Dolly Madison products was Dancer Fitzgerald Sample's San Francisco branch—primarily due to its proximity to Schulz (based in nearby Santa Rosa).
Products
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See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Fortson, Ben (2016). Nutshell History of North Carolina. History Press. ISBN 978-1467119283.
- ^ Scofield, Merry Ellen. "Unraveling the Dolley Myths". whitehousehistory.org.
- ^ Isidore, Chris (2013-03-12). "Twinkies due on shelves by summer after buyer's winning $410 million bid is approved - Mar. 12, 2013". Money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
- ^ AP 1:58 p.m. EDT April 29, 2013 (2013-04-29). "Hostess reopens bakeries for Twinkies, Ho Hos". Usatoday.com. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
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