>> My name is Brendan Connors and I am the chief financial officer here at Tessemae's.
My job entails trying to make this company as profitable as humanly possible and generating
as much cash as humanly possible to make sure we execute our plan, I mean really,
that is my job every day to make sure we are holding ourselves accountable
and making sure we have the capital needed to grow this company as large as we want it to be.
Well, I'm in charge really, I think I own the master goals of the organization so I'm looking
at sales, I'm looking at our cost of goods sold internally.
Those are the key areas I'm looking in and that's going to flow through it to profit.
So every day, I'm looking key metrics; how many sales did we have come in yesterday
from our major retailers, how are we doing reducing expenses.
I'm looking at our bank balance every day to make sure we have the proper capital
to fund the growth to support this major capacity increase we're going to have
to handle our sales over the next couple years.
>> I mean it's amazing that these guys,
[inaudible] brothers started this company just three, four years ago.
The brand they already have, the quality of the product is second to none;
it is the best refrigerated dressing on the market, done.
We have a building that we're in right now, we have the capacity to grow
and we meet world class standards so we have the infrastructure.
We have a strong executive team, as well as employees that work for us, which is --
that is critical to be able to take it to the next level.
So what does the next level look like?
I mean we're in -- currently in two retailers and we look to be in by six
or seven by the end of this year.
So there's going to be a lot of -- you know, we can pump the bottles out but we have a lot
of people in the field that are representing our brand; that's going to be critical
for us 'cause people want to work for Tessemae's.
So we just need to make sure we bring on great people that are out there representing our brand
as well as possible so that we can continue to scale and take this to the next level.