McKee Foods Enters into Distribution Agreement with Hill Country Bakery
Collegedale, Tennessee (PRWEB) March 25, 2015 -- You already take great pride in your coffee program. Now it's time to upgrade your pastry program. Give your customers the Coffee House Cafe™ experience. We invite you to get to know Coffee House Cafe, a premium brand designed to provide your customers with the highest quality baked products, always made from the finest ingredients.
If you haven’t heard of Hill Country Bakery before, that’s no real surprise. But chances are you’ve enjoyed their products if you’ve ever ordered baked goods in a restaurant, café or at coffeehouses.
McKee Foods is working with Texas-based Hill Country Bakery to provide a distribution vehicle for Hill Country’s new line of single-serve muffins, sliced cakes and crumb cakes. Billed as a premium option for convenience store shoppers, Hill Country’s Coffee House Cafe line includes banana nut, blueberry and chocolate muffins; banana nut, iced lemon and chocolate sliced cakes, as well as varieties of crumb cakes.
With the increasing demand for superior coffee in the C-Store arena, these “coffee house” style products fill the need for that ideal accompanying snack. With proven flavor combinations and preferred packaging, Coffee House Café will be instantly recognizable as the brand that provides the freshest, tastiest and most attractive products among premium baked goods.
Transform your store into the perfect coffee shop experience with the assortment of specialty products from the Coffee House Cafe brand of baked goods.
About McKee Foods
McKee Foods, a family bakery with annual sales of about $1.4 billion, is a privately-held company based in Collegedale, Tenn. The McKee Foods story began during the height of the Great Depression when founder O.D. McKee began selling 5-cent snack cakes from the back of his car. Soon after, he and his wife, Ruth, bought a small, failing bakery, using the family car as collateral. Today, the company employs more than 5,000 people in Collegedale, Tenn.; Gentry, Ark.; Stuarts Draft, Va.; and Kingman, Ariz. It creates and produces Little Debbie® Snacks, Sunbelt® Bakery snacks & cereals, Drake’s® Cakes, Heartland® and Fieldstone™ Bakery food products. Visit McKeeFoods.com for more information.
About Hill Country Bakery
At Hill Country Bakery we focus on one thing above all else. Quality. Quality of our products; quality of our production process; quality in every facet of the services we offer customers and quality in what we give back to our community.
When David Nolan and Steve O’Donnell founded Hill Country Bakery in 1997 their shared goal was to merge innovative superior product quality; cutting edge environmentally friendly production and manufacturing technology and the implementation of easier more cost efficient ways for client-partners to market our products under their labels.
These parameters remain the core of Hill Country Bakery’s Mission Statement today and will for decades to come. Our ever-present focus on Research and Development is a vital element in fulfilling Hill Country Bakery’s commitment to our customers, staff and community.
Maree Jones, Luckie & Company, +1 205-877-9795, [email protected]
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