- 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.
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