date:May 19, 2014
as negatively affected by a 40-basis-point decline as the result of $4 million of carrying costs during the quarter related to the acquired Hostess facilities and another approximately 50-basis-point decline due to higher workforce-related costs.
What I would say here is recently we have seen a run-up in wheat due to the impact of drier weather and global political instability. We will see the most impact from this run-up in the back half, primarily in our fourth-quarter costs.
However, we are