BOERNE, TX, Apr 30, 2008 — The Tootie Pie Company, Inc., a premium baker and seller of high-quality, handmade pies; is pleased to announce that our pies will be featured at the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show in Atlanta, Georgia, May 3-4. Food Network stars and authors Paula Deen and sons Jamie and Bobby Deen are headlining the show, which was launched two years ago in Washington, D.C. by Denise Medved of Tiny Kitchen fame (the Tiny Kitchen Cooking & Entertaining, www.thetinykitchen.com). The Atlanta Journal Constitution is the main sponsor of the event.
“We are excited about this next milestone in our company’s growth and look forward to gaining new customers once they taste a Tootie Pie for the first time. Atlanta is a key market to our success in the southeastern United States and this show increases our overall visibility, which is especially critical when entering a new market,” said Don Merrill, President & CEO.
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. The Tootie Pie Company, Inc. is a public company whose stock is traded on the NASDAQ OTC markets under the symbol: “TOOT.” For additional information, or to receive emails from us, please visit www.tootiepieco.com
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