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>> My name is Brendan Connors and I am the
chief financial officer here at Tessemae's.

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My job entails trying to make this company as
profitable as humanly possible and generating

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as much cash as humanly possible to make
sure we execute our plan, I mean really,

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that is my job every day to make sure
we are holding ourselves accountable

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and making sure we have the capital needed to
grow this company as large as we want it to be.

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Well, I'm in charge really, I think I own the
master goals of the organization so I'm looking

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at sales, I'm looking at our
cost of goods sold internally.

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Those are the key areas I'm looking in and
that's going to flow through it to profit.

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So every day, I'm looking key metrics; how
many sales did we have come in yesterday

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from our major retailers, how
are we doing reducing expenses.

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I'm looking at our bank balance every day
to make sure we have the proper capital

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to fund the growth to support this major
capacity increase we're going to have

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to handle our sales over the next couple years.

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>> I mean it's amazing that these guys,

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[inaudible] brothers started this
company just three, four years ago.

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The brand they already have, the quality
of the product is second to none;

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it is the best refrigerated
dressing on the market, done.

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We have a building that we're in right
now, we have the capacity to grow

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and we meet world class standards
so we have the infrastructure.

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We have a strong executive team, as well
as employees that work for us, which is --

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that is critical to be able
to take it to the next level.

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So what does the next level look like?

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I mean we're in -- currently in two
retailers and we look to be in by six

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or seven by the end of this year.

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So there's going to be a lot of -- you know,
we can pump the bottles out but we have a lot

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of people in the field that are representing
our brand; that's going to be critical

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for us 'cause people want
to work for Tessemae's.

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So we just need to make sure we bring on great
people that are out there representing our brand

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as well as possible so that we can continue
to scale and take this to the next level.