I am blogging the rest of this week from the 2008 annual meeting of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) being held this year in San Antonio.
USASBE is the leading voice in entrepreneurship research, teaching, and application. USASBE’s mission is to advance knowledge and foster business development through entrepreneurship education and research.
I will be posting the highlights of the conference for the next several days.
Today should prove to be an exciting opening. Belmont has organized a pre-conference session today that will be hearing about a variety of exciting new innovations in entrepreneurship education from schools from across the country. This pre-conference is sponsored by a grant from the Coleman Foundation.
Then this evening I have the honor of introducing one of my favorite entrepreneurs from Middle Tennessee. Cordia Harrington, best known as The Bun Lady, is the President and CEO of Tennessee Bun Company. Founded in 1996, Tennessee Bun Company (TBC) produces 60,000 buns an hour and supplies these to restaurants such as McDonalds, Chili’s and Pepperidge Farm. TBC is one of the most highly automated bakeries in the world, producing 1,000 buns per minute, and ships to 40 states east of the Rockies and to the Caribbean. In 1999, Harrington also opened Nashville Bun Company, a producer of English muffins for McDonalds, Sheetz, Perkins, and Wolferman’s Gourmet English Muffins. She added a Hearth line to Nashville Bun Company in 2005 to supply McDonalds and O’Charleys.
Cordia is a regular speaker to our classes at Belmont.
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