Tootie Pie Company, Inc. (OTCBB: TOOT)
BOERNE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Tootie Pie Company, Inc. (OTCBB: TOOT – News), a premium baker and seller of high-quality, handmade pies, is pleased to announce that it received its largest single order in Company history from one of its primary food distributors, Ben E. Keith, whose Amarillo, Texas division ordered in excess of 1,800 pies. This sale contributed to a record total in excess of 9,000 pies sold for the three months ending in June, making it the largest three month sales total since the holiday season, which runs October through December.
This is the fifth Ben E. Keith sales division to stock Tootie Pie. Beginning with the San Antonio division in November of 2005, Tootie Pies are now stocked by Ben E. Keith in their Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, Albuquerque, NM, Oklahoma City, OK, and Amarillo, TX divisions; servicing additional markets in Louisiana, New Mexico, Kansas and Missouri.
Don Merrill, President and CEO of Tootie Pie Company said, “This order is significant, not only in its size, but in that it illustrates how our valued added strategy is growing sales. Our pies provide customers with a superior product, which in turn allows them to differentiate themselves in the marketplace and open new markets.”
Tootie Pie Company bakes and sells high-quality, handmade pies through three basic sales channels: retail, corporate and wholesale. The retail segment serves individual consumers through in-store sales, orders via telephone and internet on the Company’s website. The corporate segment serves businesses that purchase pies as a way to promote their company through client and employee appreciation programs. The wholesale segment is made up of regional and national broad-line foodservice distributors who purchase pies and then resell them to their customers. Current distributors are Ben E. Keith Foodservices, Sysco Foodservices & US Foods. For additional information, or to receive emails from us, please visit www.tootiepieco.com
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Contact:
Tootie Pie Company, Inc.
Jeff Bailey, 210-237-4751
VP of Corporate Development
Jeff.Bailey@tootiepieco.com
Source: Tootie Pie Company, Inc.
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