Ari Schantz
Asheville, NC (USA)
Role(s):
Tree Huggin Treats, LLC
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Location:
Asheville
Industry:
Food Service/Restaurant
Year Founded:
2002
Number Employees:
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Description:
Tree Huggin Treats, LLC d/b/a Crispy Cat Candy Bars is a rapidly growing Candy Bar company located in the Asheville, NC. Our company started by manually producing decadent Organic vegan candy bars by hand and selling them locally and then via the internet. The product which required refrigeration, as there were no perservatives or proper packaging, eventually made it's way into 200 stores in the South East region including Whole Foods. After developing a cult like status with our customers we decided to outsource production in effort to create a shelf stable product that could be easily transported and stocked in volume.
After several months of reformulation we launched our "commercially viable shelf stable" Cripsy Cat Candy Bar line at Expo West 2007 in Anaheim California and won Veg