CoffeeCakes.com Celebrates 15 Years of Internet Retail Success

CASTLE ROCK, Colo., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- This year marks the 15th anniversary of Colorado-based CoffeeCakes.com, one of the first Internet retailers to offer high-quality gourmet gift items online. To celebrate its fifteen year milestone, CoffeeCakes.com will offer select anniversary-priced coffeecakes for $15 throughout the remainder of 2010 as well as free shipping on any order within Colorado.

In 1995, CoffeeCakes.com started as an Internet cafe (the first of its kind in Colorado). Realizing that the Internet offered incredible opportunities in the marketplace, Sherry Comes, the company's founder, decided to move her business exclusively online. Applying her many years of IT consulting expertise to her new entrepreneurial venture, Comes has grown her online store into the profitable entity it is today.

In the fifteen years since the company's inception, Comes has experienced the usual challenges of running a small business while maintaining a full-time career.  Over the years, the company has revamped its website for Search Engine Optimization, taken the functions of fulfillment, inventory and warehousing in-house, and streamlined its order management, inventory control, and shipping processes.

Since the early years, CoffeeCakes.com has greatly expanded its product line (which initially centered on coffeecakes) to include travel mugs, teapots, and items such as coffee presses and tea samplers.  "In the fifteen years since I founded the company, I have seen a huge change in customer shopping patterns," Comes said. "My customers are super-savvy Internet shoppers. They expect high-touch customer service and a broad and appealing range of products."

For Valentine's Day, the company is introducing its new line of "Chocolate Surprise Squares" and "Chocolate Bliss Gourmet" gift baskets that can be shipped anywhere within the US and Canada.

The company plans to launch a sister web site sometime in 2010 that will focus on an even wider range of gift items spanning children's wear to home decor.

To place an order, visit www.CoffeeCakes.com or call 1-800-830-2696.

About CoffeeCakes.com

CoffeeCakes.com (www.coffeecakes.com) is a privately-held company that markets specialty food and gourmet gift items exclusively on the Internet.  Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in Castle Rock, Colorado.  CoffeeCakes.com's product line includes corporate gifts, specialty gift baskets, coffeecakes and other cakes, tea samplers, travel mugs and products to enhance the enjoyment of coffee and tea.  

SOURCE CoffeeCakes.com