CLAYSBURG, Pa. — Cookies convey innocence. You ate them in kindergarten at snack time and, if you behaved yourself, for a treat at home.
So it's fitting as serving cookies with milk that the innocent approach of Shirley's Cookie Co. Vice President for Sales Patty Shaw helped connect the company with Walmart, which has given the cookie company nationwide presence for two of its products within the last two years.
Shaw's father, Zane Feathers, company president and CEO, explained how she did it at a news conference Tuesday to announce the company's inclusion in the U.S. Small Business Administration's SBA 100, which recognizes 100 businesses that have hired at least 100 workers after receiving SBA help.
Shirley's received an SBA loan in 2003 when it moved from Duncansville to its current location in the William Ward Industrial Park in Claysburg, and again in 2007, when the company expanded the Claysburg plant.
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