| WHAT:
Ground will be broken for the
new Checkerboard Bakery headquarters building in old
downtown Bremen.
WHEN:
4:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
6
WHERE:
Intersection of Mulberry and
Main streets, downtown Bremen
WHY:
Checkerboard Bakery is growing
rapidly in eastern Fairfield County as well as Hocking
and Perry counties. The previously home-based business
needs room for expansion.
INTERVIEW POSSIBILITIES:
Marilyn Stephenson, Checkerboard
Bakery founder and chief baker; David Ray, Bremen mayor;
and Melody Borchers, Bremen Downtown Revitalization
project manager. Bremen Area Chamber of Commerce officials
also will be on hand.
Background
- Marilyn Stephenson’s
Checkerboard Bakery, which merchandizes individually
wrapped servings of cookies through approximately
20 retail businesses, has enjoyed sweeping success
as a home-based business. In the two years since its
founding, the business has grown from selling 75 packages
of cookies a week to somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000
per week. The bundles of high-quality confections
are each tied with a signature red-and-white checked
ribbon and displayed in wicker baskets at point-of-purchase
locations.
- About one-third of the 2,000 square feet of building
space will be set aside for a retail store, where
Stephenson also plans to sell the breads, pies, breakfast
rolls, and wedding and special-occasion cakes and
for which she has become widely known.
- The Checkerboard Bakery building and planned retail
storefront go hand-in-glove with Bremen’s recent
downtown revitalization project and its recent efforts
to recruit new businesses to Bremen’s historic
downtown district. Stephenson hopes to open the establishment
by the end of the year.
MEDIA CONTACTS ON WEDNESDAY
Marilyn Stephenson is 569-1331
or Melody Borchers, 740/569-9150 or 614.561-6547
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