Bud's Best Cookies

We have two other lines that make wire-cut and rotary cookies, and we can make around 3,500 per minute on each of those lines. The total capacity (output) is over 1 million cookies per hour. Over the years our facility has grown to over 130,000 square feet, and our 2011 sales were over 33 million. Our company continues to grow despite stiff competition and slotting fees - the "rent" retailers usually demand just to "allow" you on the shelf. Bud Cason was Small Business Man of the Year for Shelby County in 1998. Bud's Best Cookies was voted by the Birmingham Business Journal as one of the best small businesses in Birmingham for 1998 and 1999. At a special luncheon in May of 2002, Bud's Best Cookies was presented Business of the Year Award by the Leadership Alumni Association of Shelby County. Bud Cason has been in the cookie business for over 50 years. In April of 2012, at a special meeting of employees and management, Bud announced that he was promoting his son, Al, to company President. Bud will remain CEO and Chairman of the Board. Safe Quality Foods (SQF) is a food safety program that meets the requirements of Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). The Program was formed to boost the confidence of consumers toward food manufacturers and provides independent certification that a supplier's food safety and quality management system complies with international and domestic food safety regulations. This enables suppliers to assure their customers that food has been produced, processed, prepared and handled according to the highest possible standards. Our plant is certified to SQF 2000 Level 3 which means that we not only meet the Food Safety requirements, but also the Food Quality requirements.