Celebrate the season of cheer with Cookie Man

Company News

MUMBAI, December 8

Australian Foods (I) Pvt. Ltd, an Indo-Australian joint venture, and the #1 fresh baked brand of cookies in the country, Cookie Man, is all set to make this Christmas extra-special with a bag-full of treats! Special offers, brightly wrapped gift boxes that bring alive the festive theme, a whole host of contests and a special appearance by Santa Claus himself promise to bring alive the celebrations at Cookie Man stores in your city.

Cookie Man has something for everyone this Christmas starting with a delightful range of special gift tins and a host of goodies including Cookie Man Chocolates and Plum cakes created especially for the season. Crafted in a wide array of contemporary designs, choose from tins imprinted and decorated with all the features of a brilliant Christmas – ranging from a jolly Santa to snow-topped Christmas trees, copper charms, stockings and a whole lot more. For those looking to celebrate this Christmas with someone special, Cookie Man has introduced India’s first Heart-shaped Tin, which can be filled with the choicest selection of cookies, guaranteed to make her heart melt! Available right through December the festive tins are priced between Rs. 80/- and Rs. 370/-.

Choose from a range of ready-made boxes filled with an assortment of the finest crispy crunchy cookies in flavours such as Choco-chip, Coffee Walnut, Brandy Snap etc. or custom create your gift boxes and select from a array of indulgent Super cookies, Specialty cookies, Chocolate dipped cookies and Cream filled cookies as well as Cookie Man’s newly launched Munchies Range of cookie nibbles.

Cookie Man also features a special offer to thrill a child’s heart – every purchase of Rs.300/- Cookie Man Cookies, Cookie Man gives you an opportunity to meet and greet Santa Claus and get a free digital photograph with the jolly good fellow, which you can take home in a specially created photo-frame/ 2007 calendar along with a Christmas music album audio CD for free! Cookie Man’s Santa will set up camp at a true-to-life Santa House, designed by Padmashri Art Director Thota Tharani. The offer would be available at Cookie Man outlets at City Center & Spencer Plaza, Chennai Airport in Chennai, Forum and Garuda Mall in Bangalore, Prasads Complex, Hyderabad Satellite Shop and Hyderbad Central in Hyderabad, Inorbit Mall (Malad), Infiniti Mall (Lokhandwala) and CR2 (Nariman Point) in Mumbai, MGF Mall in Gurgaon, Centre Stage Mall in Noida, City Centre Mall in Kolkata, Treasure Island in Indore and Kakade Magnum Mall in Pune from December 15th – December 25th, 2006.

The Cookie Man product line is unique, high quality and good value for money offering a diverse line of fresh baked Australian cookies with over fifty varieties of cookies. Available in a choice of mouth-watering flavours including Choc Chip, Coffee Walnut, Brandy Snap, Honey and Oats, Coconut Macaroon, Shortbread,

Peanut, Ginger and more, Cookie Man cookies are guaranteed to meet the discerning tastes of the Indian palate as well as the global connoisseur.

About Australian Foods

Australian Foods (I) Pvt. Ltd is an Indo-Australian joint venture. The company commenced business operations in India with the launch of the first Cookie Man outlet at Chennai in January 2000. Today, Cookie Man works on a franchisee model and is the #1 brand of fresh baked cookies in the country.

Cookie Man was founded by Kevin Hicks, who started out by selling his grandmother’s fresh-baked cookies door-to-door. The overwhelming response he received encouraged him to open his first store in Melbourne in the year 1958. Cookie Man built a successful retail formula that has seen Cookie Man become the cookie of choice across Australia and enabled a global expansion. At the heart of the Cookie Man retail outlet is the proprietary serpentine oven technology and the secret recipes, perfected in Australia over the last forty years.

For Further information, please contact

Shyam Shivadas

Torque Communications Pvt Ltd,

Mumbai

Mobile : 9820831834