Byrd's Famous Cookies purchases Selma's Cookies as part of strategic expansion
Highlights include new products and distribution at major theme parks, grocery stores and more
Byrd’s Famous Cookies, one of America’s fastest growing cookie and snack companies, recently purchased Selma’s Cookies, a successful bakery based in Orlando, Fla., as part of a strategic expansion. The purchase makes Byrd’s Famous Cookies, owned by CEO Stephanie Lindley, one of the specialty food industry’s largest cookie companies and expands the company’s product line to include brownies, crispy rice treats and large soft-baked cookies.
Founded by Selma Sayin in 1990, Selma's Cookies provides popular private label sweets to major theme parks in Florida and California, Las Vegas casinos, top grocery chains, leading department stores and specialty coffee shops. The company’s production facilities strategically located near major theme parks in Orlando, Fla. and Anaheim, Calif. were included in the sale.