Stella D'oro is an American brand of cookies and breadsticks owned by Snyder's-Lance. Stella D'oro means "star of gold" in Italian, and the cookies are inspired by Italian baking. Its products include breadsticks, Swiss Fudge and other cookies, biscotti, and their S-shaped breakfast treats. The original Stella D'oro company was established in 1930 by Italian immigrants Angela and Joseph Kresevich as "Stella D'oro Biscuit Company". The family also operated a restaurant next door to its manufacturing facility on West 237th Street at the north end of Kingsbridge in the Bronx, New York City. In 1992 the family sold the business for $10 million to Nabisco, which became part of Kraft Foods in 2000. In 2006, Kraft sold Stella D'oro to the private equity firm Brynwood Partners for $17.5 million. Brynwood in turn sold the company to Lance in 2009 for $23.9 million. History Joseph, an immigrant from Trieste, Italy, began working in New York City bakeries after his arrival in the U.S. in 1922, and developed his own recipes. He married his wife, Angela, "an expert baker in her own right" in 1928. The two later founded the Stella D'Oro bakery, which evolved into the Stella D'oro Biscuit Company. The biscuits produced were less sweet than other Italian baked goods and marketed as an accompaniment to coffee and tea. Early on they made their cookies "pareve" (with neither meat nor dairy products), which appealed to a large and loyal New York kosher market. This early success led the company to relocate to a building at 237th and Broadway, in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. Felice L. (Phil) Zambetti later became the company's CEO. As 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 In 2006, Brynwood Partners bought the Stella D'oro Biscuit Co. from Kraft Foods Inc. (now Mondelēz International) . 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. After 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