Gourmet Gifts & Specialty Food Manufacturer Launches New Website for National Distribution

Cole & Parks is known for their high quality gifts, cookies, coffee and other specialty food products, launches a new website at http://www.coleandparks.com. Now these great products are available to a wider audience. The e-commerce store features more than a hundred products from fresh baked cookies to custom logo’d business gifts and incredible Cole & Parks DoughEggs® — preformed ready-to-bake frozen gourmet cookie dough. All items are available to ship anywhere in the United States.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (PRWEB) March 3, 2006

Cole & Parks known locally for their high quality gifts, cookies, coffee and other specialty food products, launches a new website at http://www.coleandparks.com. Now these great products are available to a wider audience. The e-commerce store features more than a hundred products from fresh baked cookies to custom logo’d business gifts and incredible Cole & Parks DoughEggs® — preformed ready-to-bake frozen gourmet cookie dough(see http://www.dougheggs.com). All items are available to ship anywhere in the United States.

Cole & Parks established in 2003, is known for their quality brand and has amazed customers with distinctive products. “It’s all in the details,” says founder Donna Reeves-Collins, “It’s not enough for customers to be merely satisfied. Satisfaction doesn’t inspire the raving fans who actively spread the word about Cole & Parks. We continuously strive to ‘wow’ customers on multiple levels through our great tasting products, distinctive packaging, the buying experience and our level of service. All this contributes to our remarkable brand identity.”

“From the time customers step into our retail location, pulls up to our drive-thru window, orders online, or receives a Cole & Parks gift at the office or at home – we aim to have them brag about Cole & Parks — it’s at the heart of our philosophy,” added Reeves-Collins. Her background in sales and marketing are at the root of her operating principles and outlined in her story at http://www.coleandparks.com/ourstory.aspx.

The newly designed website continues this tradition with the same operating principles of their other distribution channels. The site is easy to navigate, full of a wide variety of great products, informative, and loaded with creative ideas for consumers and corporate customers. Businesses can order custom gifts featuring their company logo for client gifts, employee recognition and special events.

“For the second year in a row, we have sent Cole & Parks cookies and gifts with our logo on them,” said Clyde W. Jeffcoat, President & CEO – IMC Magnetics, a world-renowned leader manufacture valves, fans, electric motors and a wide range of other products. “We’ve sent gifts to our customers before, but never have we received such an overwhelming reaction. In fact, we had customers request Cole & Parks cookies again this year. Cole & Parks makes it easy. They handle everything from branding and custom messaging to maintaining our recipient lists - it couldn’t be easier, and the cookies couldn’t be better,” remarked Jeffcoat.

In addition, high quality coffee is a core competency for Cole & Parks, who is a member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA at http://www.scaa.org/whatis_brewing.asp). Customers can now order their popular coffees online to enjoy at home or at the office. The site features an interactive page that describes their coffees in detail - from their roast level (http://www.coleandparks.com/roastlevels.aspx) to their respective flavor profiles.

“This new website was designed by S.D.Leo & Company (http://www.sdleo.com), Inc., a Marketing and Advertising Design firm in Rochester, New York. Their design and brand expertise has been instrumental in helping Cole & Parks build the site with Storefront e-commerce shopping cart software. They have integrated our strategy, brand image and brand attributes into a consistent experience for our customers,” said Reeves-Collins. “S.D. Leo & Company, Inc. may be a small firm but has major-market capabilities,” added Reeves-Collins.

The new site puts Cole & Parks on the national map as a manufacturer and distributor of their proprietary products. In addition, they have combined these products with other high quality award-winning products from: Jo’s Candies, Butterfield’s and Harney & Sons Teas. “Now, it’s easy for customers located anywhere in the U.S. to understand our capabilities, have access to the world’s best cookies and fresh roasted coffee and worth bookmarking Cole & Parks for all their future gift giving needs,” says Reeves-Collins.

Cole & Parks is headquartered in Rochester, New York and is recognized on a national level for their distinctive packaging and as a leading producer of proprietary gourmet cookies, cookie dough products, coffee and other specialty foods directly to consumers online, at their retail location, through corporate catering and wholesaling to other cafés, restaurants, grocery stores, universities and more. Cole & Parks is a marketing-driven company that has developed remarkable products by focusing on quality, innovation, and memorable branding.

Visit Cole & Parks at http://www.coleandparks.com to learn more about how the founders are building Cole & Parks into a national brand and if you are interested in wholesale, distribution and future franchise opportunities.

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