Corporate Fact Sheet

January 2010

• McKee Foods is best known for its line of Little Debbie® snack cakes. Little Debbie® is America’s leading snack cake brand in unit sales because we provide consumers with quality products of excellent value. McKee Foods’ annual sales are about 1.2 billion.
  
  
• The company was founded in 1934 by the late O.D. and Ruth McKee. They converted a cookie shop into a 5-cent cake bakery in Chattanooga, Tenn. The business was known as McKee Baking Company from the 1950s until 1991, when the name was changed to McKee Foods Corporation.
  
  
• McKee Foods was the first bakery to sell individually wrapped cakes in a multipack carton. In 1960 the company introduced the Little Debbie brand and began selling the individually wrapped cakes in multipack cartons. The product line was named after a granddaughter of the founders. A carton of 12 cakes had a suggested retail price of 49 cents at that time. Twelve cakes would have cost 60 cents if sold separately.
  
  
• McKee Foods offers more than 160 varieties of Little Debbie® multipack and single-serve snacks, including seasonal products. Our products are sold in all 50 states, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico and U.S. military commissaries overseas.
  
  
• The company also produces 29 different multipack and single-serve snacks and granola cereals under the brand name Sunbelt. These products are often found in the many fine retailers that carry Little Debbie brand products. Check with your favorite retailer for exact product placement in the store.
  
  
• Recently the company introduced Fieldstone, a brand of cookies, breakfast pastries and other snacks targeted to meet the needs of the foodservice industry.
  
  
• McKee Foods is an equal-opportunity employer. Employees are the company’s most important asset. An atmosphere of understanding, cooperation and mutual trust is fostered at all levels. The work environment also encourages personal development and advancement in order to attract, stimulate and reward outstanding employees.
  
  
• McKee Foods is committed to quality in all aspects of our business: customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and teamwork, products and service, effective measures, and a quest for finding “a better way.”
  
  
• The company headquarters and production facilities are located in Collegedale, Tenn. In addition, production facilities are located in Gentry, Ark., and Stuarts Draft, Va.
  
  
• McKee Foods Corporation is committed to being an environmentally conscious partner in our communities. On average each year, we recycle about 3,750 tons of cardboard; 10,000 gallons of used petroleum oil; and 101,700 wooden pallets. We’re working every day to reduce our consumption of paper, water and power. At McKee Foods, responsibility is one of our Guiding Values that we live by every day.

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