For Immediate Release
Pati Grady, President
(607) 547-9146
pdgrady@CooperstownCookieCompany.com

Send a Bit of Cooperstown and America's Favorite Pastime Home this Holiday Season—Cooperstown Cookie Company™ Launches Online Ordering Component to Website

Cooperstown, N.Y., November 30, 2004—Make your holiday gift giving easy, affordable and memorable. Looking for a stress-free shopping experience this year? Then look no further than the perfectly packaged gourmet goodies from the Cooperstown Cookie Company™ (www.CooperstownCookieCompany.com). With the traditional baseball shortbread and convenient and secure online ordering, holiday shoppers are only a click or call away from a unique holiday gift for family, friends, and clients. Holiday shopping at the Cooperstown Cookie Company™ is something gift givers can feel good about—the Company shares a portion of its profits with Pathfinder Village, a private, non-profit residential community in Edmeston dedicated to serving the needs of children and adults who have Down syndrome.

"I am delighted with the response from the local community sending cookies to family, friends and clients," said Pati Drumm Grady, President of the Cooperstown Cookie Company™. "Our close-knit community and visitors to the region have all embraced the classic baseball shortbread as a perfect compliment to Cooperstown’s many offerings." "And now that our website provides online ordering, we can serve customers from just about anywhere."

The classic baseball shortbreads™ are rich, buttery cookies in the regulation size and shape of baseballs that break along the stitching so you can share them with a friend. Baked in small batches by hand, at Pathfinder Village the cookies are packaged in decorative tins that include tricky baseball trivia questions—making them the perfect gift for cookie and baseball lovers alike.

These sweet morsels are packaged in batches of two cookies per packet and are available in 1/2 dozen (small tin) for $10.99 and 1 dozen (large tin) for $18.99. Orders can be placed online, by phone at (607) 435-5789, or fax at (607) 547-7226. Cookies can also be purchased at several retail outlets in Cooperstown; please visit us online at www.CooperstownCookieCompany.com for locations.

The Cooperstown Cookie Company™ also offers corporate clients memorable ways to thank customers, prospects and employees this holiday season. Orders can be placed online, by phone, or fax. Gift packages can be delivered directly to local businesses or sent by mail.

Website development draws upon local talent including Zach Smith, webmaster, Lonni Sue Johnson, illustrator, and Richard and Elizabeth Walker, photographers. Zach Smith, part-time Cooperstown resident, is founder and managing partner of Analog Method Website Solutions (www.analogmethod.com). Lonni Sue Johnson (www.lonnisue.com) is an illustrator, watercolorist, organic dairy farmer and pilot in Cherry Valley. Her imagery creates a rich and whimsical portrait of two highly passionate and seemingly unlikely American pastimes, cookies and baseball.

The Cooperstown Cookie Company™ will be offering samples and hot chocolate during the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Annual Holiday Celebration on Saturday, December 4 from 10 am to 5 pm. For more information on the day’s activities, please contact the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at (607) 547-7200 or online at www.baseballhalloffame.org.

The Cooperstown Cookie Company™, founded in Cooperstown in 2004, develops and distributes high quality, made-from-scratch specialty cookies, including Classic Baseball Shortbread™. For more information about the company, call (607) 547-9146, fax (607) 547-7226, or visit us online at www.CooperstownCookieCompany.com.

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