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How a ‘coloring book you can eat’ saved a Syracuse cookie company
North Syracuse, N.Y. -- Two months after Corso’s Cookies opened its new bakery in North Syracuse, the pandemic hit.
It was 2020, and decorated cookies suddenly were not a priority. Retailers canceled orders. Medical supplies, toilet paper and other necessities filled distribution centers and lines.
It was 2020, and decorated cookies suddenly were not a priority. Retailers canceled orders. Medical supplies, toilet paper and other necessities filled distribution centers and lines.
Corso's Cookies Factory Outlet Store on News Channel 9
NORTH SYRACUSE - NY: Corso's Cookies Opens Factory Outlet Store
CNY Business Journal
GEDDES — Walk down the aisle of any supermarket, and you will find kosher cer tification on products from Oreos to Coca-Cola. More than $150 billion of kosher-certified products are consumed annually and spending on kosher products is rising dramatically. Beware Oreos: On Mother’s Day, Corso’s Cookies received kosher cer tification from the Orthodox Union.
This is just the latest move by a Central New York bakery that calls itself the decorated cookie company. “The buttery shortbread cookies are decorated like edible works of art,” says Peter Michael Hess, Corso’s CEO. “We conceptualize, design, bake, decorate, package, and ship thousands of cookies every day from our manufacturing facility. Corso’s [cur- rently] sells to hundreds of wholesale, re- tail, and drop-ship customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. The customer list includes Target, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), Hobby Lobby, Gertrude Hawk
This is just the latest move by a Central New York bakery that calls itself the decorated cookie company. “The buttery shortbread cookies are decorated like edible works of art,” says Peter Michael Hess, Corso’s CEO. “We conceptualize, design, bake, decorate, package, and ship thousands of cookies every day from our manufacturing facility. Corso’s [cur- rently] sells to hundreds of wholesale, re- tail, and drop-ship customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. The customer list includes Target, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), Hobby Lobby, Gertrude Hawk
Made in CNY - Then & Now
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — One of the nation’s top decorated cookie companies is moving its operation to a bigger space in North Syracuse.
Corso’s Cookies will start producing its colorful, buttery shortbread cookies in the former Maines Food and Party Warehouse store in North Syracuse by the end of the year.
The company will also operate its first factory outlet store at that same location in early 2020.
Corso’s client list has grown to include Wegmans, Publix, and H-E-B, a supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 350 stores throughout Texas, as well as in northeast Mexico.
Already selling these decorated cookies has been Pro Flowers, Mrs.Fields, Harry and David, Target, Barnes and Noble and Walgreens among others.
The company’s founders say the reason for their growth is their newest product line, sugar cookie tubs.
Corso’s Cookies will start producing its colorful, buttery shortbread cookies in the former Maines Food and Party Warehouse store in North Syracuse by the end of the year.
The company will also operate its first factory outlet store at that same location in early 2020.
Corso’s client list has grown to include Wegmans, Publix, and H-E-B, a supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 350 stores throughout Texas, as well as in northeast Mexico.
Already selling these decorated cookies has been Pro Flowers, Mrs.Fields, Harry and David, Target, Barnes and Noble and Walgreens among others.
The company’s founders say the reason for their growth is their newest product line, sugar cookie tubs.
Expanding Corso's is Moving its Factory
North Syracuse, N.Y. -- Corso’s Cookies plans to move its factory from cramped quarters in Geddes to the more spacious former Maines Food & Party Warehouse store in North Syracuse, where the maker of decorated cookies will also operate its first factory outlet store.
CEO Peter Hess, who founded the cookie company in 2002 with his wife, Tina Corso-Hess, said the company will begin moving to the former Maines location at what used to be called Maines Plaza in November and will start baking cookies there at the beginning of December...
Article written by Rick Moriarty
CEO Peter Hess, who founded the cookie company in 2002 with his wife, Tina Corso-Hess, said the company will begin moving to the former Maines location at what used to be called Maines Plaza in November and will start baking cookies there at the beginning of December...
Article written by Rick Moriarty
A Syracuse company’s rise to top US decorated cookie company
What started as a small family business in Syracuse about a decade and a half ago is today the largest decorated cookie company in America, but still operating in the Syracuse area.
The Decorated Cookie Company is found in many top retailers from Costco to Target and Barnes and Noble just to name a few.
It also sells direct to customers through its website, but it didn’t happen overnight.
Founder Tina Hess tells NewsChannel 9, “I had to send a gift to somebody who just had a baby and I said let me try to decorate some cookies. And I did and I sent them to her. They were terrible but she loved them and then I started sending them to other people as gifts. And they kept asking how can I get some.”
So Tina and her husband Peter bought a small bakery in Syracuse, fixed it up and Tina started making and selling her decorated cookies.
Peter Hess remembers when he realized they’d hit on...
Article written by WYSR News Channel 9
The Decorated Cookie Company is found in many top retailers from Costco to Target and Barnes and Noble just to name a few.
It also sells direct to customers through its website, but it didn’t happen overnight.
Founder Tina Hess tells NewsChannel 9, “I had to send a gift to somebody who just had a baby and I said let me try to decorate some cookies. And I did and I sent them to her. They were terrible but she loved them and then I started sending them to other people as gifts. And they kept asking how can I get some.”
So Tina and her husband Peter bought a small bakery in Syracuse, fixed it up and Tina started making and selling her decorated cookies.
Peter Hess remembers when he realized they’d hit on...
Article written by WYSR News Channel 9
Why are Corso's Cookies selling like hot cakes?
Geddes, N.Y. — Growing sales to national retailers such as Costco and Wal-Mart are forcing a quiet suburban Syracuse company to find a bigger place to make its popular decorated cookies.
Corso's Cookies and its wholesale affiliate, The Decorated Cookie Co., are in discussions with Onondaga Community College about building an $8 million, 40,000-square-foot bakery on the college's campus. The expansion would create approximately 77 new jobs at the companies, which employ 55 people at a bakery on Lakeside Road in Geddes...
Article Written by Rick Moriarty
Corso's Cookies and its wholesale affiliate, The Decorated Cookie Co., are in discussions with Onondaga Community College about building an $8 million, 40,000-square-foot bakery on the college's campus. The expansion would create approximately 77 new jobs at the companies, which employ 55 people at a bakery on Lakeside Road in Geddes...
Article Written by Rick Moriarty
Special cookie celebrates 2010 New York State Fair
Syracuse, NY -- The New York State Fair starts today, and Corso's Cookies will be there, at a booth in the Dairy Products Building.
Among the cookies on sale will be 100 special, fair-themed treats like the one featured here. The cookies will be $20 each, as long as the supply lasts.
They weigh 2½ pounds apiece, so bring on the milk.
Buyers of one of Corso's chocolate chip, peanut butter or oatmeal spice cookies also will get a free milk ticket for the Rainbow Milk Bar next door...
Article Written by Joy Crocker
Among the cookies on sale will be 100 special, fair-themed treats like the one featured here. The cookies will be $20 each, as long as the supply lasts.
They weigh 2½ pounds apiece, so bring on the milk.
Buyers of one of Corso's chocolate chip, peanut butter or oatmeal spice cookies also will get a free milk ticket for the Rainbow Milk Bar next door...
Article Written by Joy Crocker
From CNY, Lakeland cookies grace inauguration for New Jersey governor
Let’s say you’re planning a reception for a newly elected governor and you decide, at the last minute, that you want cookies in the shape of the state to be the centerpiece on each table. Who do you call? The planners of Monday’s $500-per-plate pre-inaugural reception for Gov.-elect Chris Christie of New Jersey called Corso’s Cookies, a fast-growing Lakeland company best known for selling cookie “bouquets” online through such sites as proflowers.com and giftbaskets.com. Christie’s people placed the order for 200 New Jersey-shaped cookies on Thursday. That meant Corso’s had just one day to cut, bake and decorate the cookies and get them ready for shipping to the reception site in Newark by 3 p.m. Friday...
Article written by Don Cazentre
Article written by Don Cazentre
Cookies With A Cause - Corso's Cookies
Video shows a news article that aired on PIX 11 news in Syracuse, NY. about how we created cookies for breast cancer awareness month.
Pathfinder Bank - TV Commercial
We are proud to be partnered with Pathfinder Bank and were honored to be featured in one of their small business commercials.
QVC Product Feature
Our cookies were so popular that QVC wanted to feature us on their channel for the holiday season. They were so colorful and unique that they ended up selling out before the end of the spot!
Corso’s Cookies opens in North Syracuse
EAGLE NEWS ONLINE - Corso’s Cookies, the Geddes-based bakery known for its decorated sugar cookies, has opened its new factory in the village of North Syracuse.
Village Clerk-Treasurer Dianne Kufel said the factory officially opened in the former Maines Plaza — now known as “Corso’s Plaza” — at 628 Main St. on Friday, Jan. 10.
Corso’s Cookies are sold at national retailers such as Target, Walmart and Publix; online retailers ProFlowers and Shari’s Berries; and on the QVC shopping network...
Article written by Ashley M. Casey
Village Clerk-Treasurer Dianne Kufel said the factory officially opened in the former Maines Plaza — now known as “Corso’s Plaza” — at 628 Main St. on Friday, Jan. 10.
Corso’s Cookies are sold at national retailers such as Target, Walmart and Publix; online retailers ProFlowers and Shari’s Berries; and on the QVC shopping network...
Article written by Ashley M. Casey
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