Girl Scouts preparing for January cookie sales
November 11, 2015
GREENVILLE, SC – Girl Scouts of South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands (GSSC-MM) is preparing for its annual cookie sales program. This is the largest girl-led business in the country and generates over $700 million for girls and communities nationwide. Once again, the girl entrepreneurs will be able to sell cookies to consumers through the revolutionary, digital technology program that was introduced last year called Digital Cookie. Girls will be able to create and manage their sales online and customers will have the convenience of having cookies shipped directly to them and paying via a credit card on a mobile device.
For the first time in over a decade, the price of a package of cookies has increased by 50 cents to $4 a box. The council has been absorbing inflated costs as long as possible but is now raising its price. Not only will the price cover the cost of continued ingredient and transportation increases, but will also allow the council to reinvest in its girls and volunteers.
States Kim Hutzell, President/CEO, “The price increase will allow us to invest more in our girls in support of their troop activities, to improve our camp properties, and to support the expansion of our high-quality programming and troop resource support.”
One hundred percent of the net revenue earned from the cookie sales remain with, and is utilized for, the girls throughout the Girl Scouts of South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands council. Individual troops can earn up to $.75 per box sold. Girls decide how to spend their troop cookie money and reinvest it back into their neighborhoods through community service projects and learning experiences, like travel opportunities.
Girl Scouts will begin taking door to door preorders on Friday, January 8. Be on the lookout for them at local retail stores and businesses beginning February 19. All sales end on Sunday, March 13. As in years past, Cookies for Soldiers will be our collective project of service.
For additional information, contact Susan Schneider, Director, PR & Advocacy, [email protected] or 803-240-8213.
About Girl Scouts of South Carolina
For more than 103 years, Girl Scouting has helped girls develop positive values and become active, responsible leaders in their communities. With emphasis on personal growth and leadership development through service to others, Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts of South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands serves approximately 11,400 girls, grades K5-12, and 3,750 adults in 22 counties of central and western South Carolina, including Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Sumter, and Union.
