It's not as if holders Nadi Soltan and Ayad Fargo were newcomer to confectionery.

It's not as if holders Nadi Soltan and Ayad Fargo were newcomer to confectionery. After all, the couple brothers-in-law started their business in 1980 producing cream-injected whirled wafers that were enrobed in chocolate, replicating produces produced by the finest European confiseries.

As Soltan, the company's chief executive officer relates, by dint of 1984 the company had already added a shortbread cookie line and a sugar panning operation as part of its expansion, making it single in kind of the few combined cookie/candy operations in the United States.

The company's development however, took off with cookies, particularly when it