Tootie Pie Company, Inc. (OTCBB: TOOT)
Tootie Pie Company, Inc. bakes, markets and sells high quality, handmade pies. Tootie Pie Company has three primary sales channels: retail, corporate and wholesale. The retail segment serves individual consumers through in-store sales at our Boerne storefront, orders via telephone and internet orders on their website. The corporate segment serves small businesses to large corporations that purchase the pies for gifts, events and/or personal use. The wholesale segment is made up of regional and national broad-line foodservice distributors (Ben E. Keith, Sysco, US Foods) who purchase our products and then resell them to their customers, such as restaurantshotels, charters, and coffee shops.
General Information
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 orders on their website. Their corporate segment serves businesses that purchase their pies as a way to promote their company through customer and employee appreciation programs. Their pies are shipped to the retail and corporate customers via third party carriers (Fed Ex, UPS) all over the United States. The wholesale segment is made up of regional and national broad-line foodservice distributors who purchase Tootie Pies and then resell them to the distributors. Tootie Pie Co’s primary distributors are Ben E. Keith Foodservices, Sysco Foodservices, and US Foodservices. These distributors have primarily sold to the central and south Texas markets, although sales are beginning to occur in other markets in Texas and the surrounding states.
Ruby Lorraine “Tootie” Feagan Creator of Tootie Pie
Tootie Pie has been featured in numerous publications all over America. Writer John T. Edge, who journeyed across the country researching his book Apple Pie: An American Story, highlighted the Tootie Pie. He recognized it not only for its big Texas-size, but even more importantly for the pastry-like crust found only in Tootie’s pies. Tootie has also been featured on Texas Country Reporter, and in newspapers and magazine articles, such as Texas Monthly and The New York Times, for the past decade.
Ruby Lorraine “Tootie” Feagan was born in September of 1930 and grew up in Medina, Texas a small hill country town located about 50 miles Northwest of San Antonio on the banks of the Medina River. The history of Tootie Pies is a classic story of humble beginnings which through hard work, determination, and a loving hand has reached far beyond the kitchen and festivals where it was first introduced.
Like many of her generation, Tootie married young, and started raising a family. It was in those early years that she created these recipes for her family and friends. After the loss of her husband Bob in 1982, Tootie dreamed of having her own bakery to help support her family. Of course, a dream starts with a single step, so she baked and sold her pies from home.
In 1985, Tootie was offered a job for a large Louisiana company to cook at their corporate hunting lodge outside of Medina, TX. , Tootie used this opportunity to tweak and perfect her pie recipes for all of the visitors at the lodge. As word about her pies spread, she started baking pies for the local market in Medina alongside her job at the lodge.
Tootie would wake up at 3 A.M. to prepare pies for the market before going to her day job at the lodge in the winter months. People would drive from all over to Medina, asking locals where they could find one of “Tootie’s pies”. Thus the name “Tootie Pie” was born. Tootie remarried in 1988 to Jerry Feagan, an Air Force retiree, talented cook, and avid supporter of Tootie.
Over time, Tootie attracted loyal fans from all across the country. From New York to California, Tootie’s pies have become a favorite centerpiece for dinner tables, picnics, and even gift-giving.
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