Cookie Time

The company's factory, with a shop for members of the public to buy cookies and other products, is at 789 Main South Road, in the settlement of Templeton, on the outskirts of Christchurch.

[3] He baked cookies in a rented bakery and then starting on 7 February 1983, he and his mother delivered them to dairies across Christchurch, where they were sold individually from large glass jars.

[4] In 1987 the company started packaging the cookies individually to prolong their shelf life and enable them to be sold in petrol stations.

[6] Following the success of the Queenstown operation, the company opened a Cookie Bar in Harajuku, Tokyo in December 2013, in partnership with a Japanese food distribution business.

[15] At seasonal times of the year the company takes on temporary staff on evening and night shifts to meet demand.

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, university students sell buckets of small cookies door-to-door in city shops and offices and street stalls.