HISTORY ABOUT TASTYKAKE BAKING COMPANY

• 1914:  Company is founded in Philadelphia by Pittsburg baker Phillip J. Baur and Boston egg salesman Herbert Morris.  Sales for that year: $300,000.   
• The first Tastykake wagon was horse-drawn, and the last horse retired in 1941.
• An electric truck, used in the 1920s ans 1930s.
• 1930:  Company occupies five buildings and has sales of $6 million.
• 1930s:  The individual lunchbox-size TastyPie is introduced.
• 1951:  Baur dies, and Paul Kaiser joins the company, later becoming its president.
• 1957:  A $2.5 million automated packaging line is completed.
• 1959:  Nelson G. Harris joins the company, later leaving , then rejoining the company in 1981 as   CEO
• 1960:  Morris dies.
• 1961:  Tasty has its initial public offering of stock.
• 1964:  Sales reach $40 million.
• 1979:  The company posts its first annual loss, $2.26 per share.
• 2002:  Charles P. Pizzi becomes president and CEO.
• 2009:  Tasty leaves its longtime headquarters on Hunting Park Avenue and moves to the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia.
• 2009:  The company posts a loss of $3.4 million.