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going up, we saw a natural extension of
that to offer premium snack cakes."
Hill Country Bakery
builds a brand name
By Ryan Atkinson
ill Country Bakery is no stranger to high-quality baked goods
and desserts. For years, the
San Antonio-based company has provided private label gourmet bars, loaf
cakes, crumble cakes and muffins to
large foodservice chains, cruise liners,
in-store bakeries and - perhaps most
notably - leading coffee houses across
the country.
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were improving their coffee offerings
and because the quality of coffee was
Customers at c-stores, grocery stores
and quick-serve coffee bars were looking for better java, but the level of
snacks and cakes to pair with the coffee
was not elevating in quality at the same
time. With Hill Country's background,
the fit couldn't have been any more natural. In turn, the company launched its
Coffee House Café brand in late 2013.
The line consists of premium pound
cakes, loaf cakes, coffee cakes, crumb
Many companies might, without blame,
be content to simply maintain that level of success behind the scenes. Hill
Country, after all, boasts four plants
and an off-site frozen warehouse totaling 284,000 sq ft and more than 800 employees. But Hill Country - specifically
founders Steve O'Donnell and David
Nolan - saw an opportunity to make a
name for itself outside the world of private label.
"We have a pretty strong background
in foodservice and working with coffee
chains and we saw that there was a need
at the c-store level for improved cake
products," O'Donnell says. "C-stores
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