Corporate Profile for Granny Goose, dated May 31, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published Date: May 31, 1996 Company Name: Granny Goose Foods Inc.
Address: 930 98th Ave.
Oakland, CA 94603
Main Telephone Number: 510/635-5400 Chief Executive Officer: Keith J. Kim Chief Financial Officer: Jack E. Doty Public Relations Contact: Neal Amidei Business number: 415/856-2830 e-mail address: 102374.3313@compuserv.com Industry: Snack Foods Company description: Granny Goose Granny Goose is the name of a brand of potato chips and other snack foods. Its logo and mascot, also named Granny Goose, is an anthropomorphic cartoon goose. In a series of television commercials, the company's spokesperson, who self-identified as "Granny Goose", was Foods Inc., based in Oakland, Calif., is the dominant snack food producer in California, making potato, tortilla and corn chips and other snack foods A list of snack foods is shown below. For more information, see snack foods. List of snack foods Chips (Crisps)
Legend has it that the potato chip was created because of a spat between millionaire industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt and a restaurant chef in the resort town of Saratoga Springs Saratoga Springs, resort and residential city (1990 pop. 25,001), Saratoga co., E N.Y.; inc. as a village 1826, as a city 1915. Skidmore College is the largest source of employment, but the city also has light manufacturing. , N.Y., in 1853. As the story goes, Vanderbilt chose fried potatoes with his dinner at Moon's Lake House Restaurant, then sent them back to the kitchen because they were too thick for his taste. Affronted, the chef sliced some potatoes paper thin, fried them and sent them back, expecting to annoy Vanderbilt. Instead, he proclaimed them delicious, and a new snack was born. Under the leadership of CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Keith Kim, who acquired the company in July 1995, Granny Goose Foods is expected to double in volume to $100 million in 1996. The company employs nearly 600 people. Granny Goose Foods Inc. began making potato chips in 1946 at the Oakland plant, starting out with seven delivery routes; it has been operating continuously for the past 50 years. Today, the company produces and distributes more than 250 different products ranging from potato, corn, rice and pretzel snacks to candies, cookies and nuts. Now prominent in the Northern California market, Granny Goose Foods returned to the Southern California area this spring and expects a 20 percent increase in sales there. Granny Goose Foods employs more than 500 people, with annual sales in 1996 expected to be in the $60 million range. CONTACT: Granny Goose Foods Inc. |
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