Timeline

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  • 1977

  • Ken Rawlings opens first Otis Spunkmeyer cookie store in Oakland, CA
  • Founder Ken Rawlings with wife, Linda

  • 1979

  • Otis Spunkmeyer signs the lease for its first cookie dough manufacturing facility in San Leandro, CA

  • 1983

  • Otis Spunkmeyer switches to wholesale and sells its 20 cookie stores in California
  • 1980

  • 1980's

  • Otis Spunkmeyer expands across the US by opening 41 Sales Centers by 1989 to serve its 40,000 wholesale customers
  • Otis Spunkmeyer Air over San Francisco

    Otis Spunkmeyer Air over San Francisco

  • 1987

  • Otis Spunkmeyer Air DC-3 Skytours goes into service providing air tours of the San Francisco Bay Area in two vintage DC-3’s
  • 1990

  • 1990

  • Otis Spunkmeyer introduces retail frozen cookie dough sold in grocery stores
  • 1990 - Sweet Happenings

  • 1990

  • Otis Spunkmeyer Muffins introduced with the acquisition of the Sweet Happenings muffin company
  • 1991

  • 1991

  • Export, Pa manufacturing facility opened
  • Otis Spunkmeyer Classic Collection Coffee introduced with the acquisition of Peter James Coffee Ltd

  • 1992

  • Otis Spunkmeyer goes international with expansion into England and Mexico
  • 1993

  • 1993

  • Cayce, SC manufacturing facility opened

  • 1996

  • Otis Spunkmeyer expands into Canada

  • 1997

  • Otis Spunkmeyer Bagels introduced
  • 1998

  • 1998

  • Otis Spunkmeyer Danishes and Brownies introduced

  • 2005

  • Otis Spunkmeyer acquires Chippery
  • All Otis Spunkmeyer cookies & muffins recipes switch to 0 grams trans fat
  • 2006

  • 2006

  • Otis Spunkmeyer Delicious Essentials reduced fat cookies & muffins introduced
  • Otis Spunkmeyer acquired by global specialty bakery company now known as ARYZTA AG

  • 2009

  • State of the art Otis Spunkmeyer R&D Center of Excellence opened
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