Blue Chip Cookies

Blue Chip Cookies is a small chain of gourmet cookie bakeries and mail-order gourmet cookie businesses with headquarters in Milford, Ohio, United States. Current locations are Ohio, Kansas and Bogota, Colombia. Founded in March 1983 by the Nader family (Matt Nader died in 1997), Blue Chip Cookies specializes in cookies and created the first white chocolate macadamia cookie.^[1] Donna Drury, President of the Blue Chip Cookie Company and majority owner of the sister company B.C.C. Direct (dba Blue Chip Cookies Direct), is focusing the company's effort to expand the business online and through cookie mail order business and retail licensing.

History

The first Blue Chip Cookies store opened on Beach Street (Fisherman's Wharf) in San Francisco, California,^[2][3] in March 1983. In 1986, the company began franchising stores in selected markets.

In 1986, Blue Chip Cookies opened a store in Cincinnati, Ohio, a result of the city's efforts to market its nickname, "Blue Chip City".^[4][5] In 1998, Blue Chip Cookies was purchased by Edgewood, Kentucky–based B.C.C. Enterprises, a rare example of a franchisor that had grown larger than the franchisees.^[4] Loveland, an Ohio–based company, acquired Blue Chip Cookies in November 2005 and opened a new store in Historic Downtown Loveland the following year. In January 2007, Blue Chip Cookie Company, Inc resumed franchising and licensing with an updated UFOC.

In September 2007, Donna Drury, now President of The Blue Chip Cookie Company, refocused the company and created a new sister company, called B.C.C. Direct, LLC. Her focus was on restructuring the Blue Chip Cookie Company, pointing back to the core strength, "The Best Cookies in the Country. In 2011, The Blue Chip Cookie Company authorized the transfer of the franchising and licensing rights to B.C.C. Direct, LLC. B.C.C. Direct, LLC is now the sole licensor and franchisor of Blue Chip Cookies. Blue Chip Cookie Company's focus is licensing with four models for licensing:

1. Blue Chip Cookies—Indoor mall model which is just cookies, customized cookies cakes, soft serve ice cream and select baked goods and soft drinks (Kenwood Towne Center, Cincinnati, Ohio)
2. Blue Chip Cookies—Outdoor mall model which features cookies, customized cookie cakes, hard ice cream, and soft drinks (Leawood, Kansas)
3. Blue Chip Cookies Pick-Up/Gift Center is a wholesale and pick-up center located at the baking facility
4. Blue Chip Cookies Online & Mail Order business for the Blue Chip USA online business.

5. Blue Chip Cookies-Indoor Coffee Court. (Bogota, Colombia)

B.C.C. Direct, LLC licensing to other select retailers which currently have established themselves in a marketplace and want to add another line of sweets or would like to include Blue Chip Cookies in their portfolio of products offered in their new store.

In March 2014, Blue Chip Cookies opened their first international store in Bogota, Colombia. This is a Master License.

B.C.C. Direct has an online mail order business at www.bluechipcookiesdirect.com and are shipped anywhere in the US and internationally. The focus of the online/gift/mail-order business is to provide gourmet cookie gifts for any occasion, business or personal.

B.C.C. Direct, LLC majority owner is Donna Drury, previous Sales Executive for P&G and currently owner of LifeQuest Coaching and Consulting. B.C.C. Direct, LLC is a woman-owned business.^[6][7]

Blue Chip Cookies has four locations in the USA: 3 in Ohio, 1 in Kansas.Template:Cincinnati Enquirer

References

External links

• Company online cookie mail order website
• Company website for licensing and franchising