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Stephanie Benner used to help dress fashion models. Now she hopes to make her fortune dipping oversized fortune cookies in a dressing of chocolate.
The owner of the cookie design company Expressive Fortunes in Fallbrook, Benner translated her gift-giving idea of decorating cookies for friends and family members into a fulltime business in December 2003.
Today, her partnership with a Los Angeles bakery that delivers the large fortune cookies to Fallbrook, where Benner and her three employees decorate and wrap the cookies, has provided a sweet return.
In 2004, Benner reported sales of $86,000, up from $65,000 in the first year.
Her biggest client is the Candy Bouquet franchise, which retails the cookies nationwide, she said.
Benner also travels with the Harvest Festival, an organizational arts and crafts festival, about 15 times a year to Northern California and outside California.
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Name: Stephanie Benner.
Title: Owner.
Company: Expressive Fortunes.
Address: 550 Industrial Way, Unit B, Fallbrook 92028.
Phone: (800) 789-3796 or (760) 728-4063.
Founded: December 2003.
Prior experience: Pottery and Stuff, an online...