Melissa Schenkel, Public Relations Representative
Courage. Compassion. Commitment. These are the words that define the fight against breast cancer. Creating stylish, creative, colorful gifts, both Corso’s Cookies and Vera Bradley are teaming up with a campaign to benefit the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer.</p>
2009-10-07T10:37:32-04:00<p>This year the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer is partnering with Corso’s Cookies – a family owned company that creates custom-made, hand-decorated cookies and is known for its amazing cookie designs, themes, and mouth-watering tastes – to aid in the fight against breast cancer.</p>
<p>In partnership with the Vera Bradley Foundation, Corso’s Cookies has designed a cookie bouquet, which replicates Vera Bradley’s Hope Garden design. Now through the end of the year, Corso’s Cookies has agreed to donate 20% of the net proceeds from sales of each Hope Garden Cookie Bouquet to the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer.</p>
<p>Vera Bradley will also display the Hope Garden Cookie Bouquets in all 25 retail stores during the week of October 16. The Hope Garden Cookie Bouquet will be available for purchase at <a><a href="http://www.corsoscookies.com">corsoscookies.com</a>.</p>
<p>The Vera Bradley Foundation receives funding through the sale of Vera Bradley breast cancer awareness designs – the current design is “Hope Garden.” It represents hope for the future. Hope for a cure, a change.</p>
<p>To brighten someone’s day, give the gift of the Hope Garden Cookie Bouquet and be a part of the fight against breast cancer. Giving is twice as sweet.</p>
<p>About Corso’s Cookies: Being a smart cookie, Tina Corso Hess found a way to blend her passions for baking and art in 2001, when she founded Corso’s Cookies. Corso’s Cookies creates beautiful custom-made, hand-decorated, delicious cookie bouquets and cookie gift baskets for all occasions, like edible works of art. Corso’s Cookies motto is “making gift giving fun.” Recipients of Corso’s Cookies bouquets have been Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ryan Seacrest, Wayne Gretsky, and Donald Trump. Today, you can find Corso's Cookies in more than 100 catalogs and web sites, including ProFlowers, Amazon, and Gifts.com.</p>
<p><strong>About the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer:</strong> The Vera Bradley Foundation is doing its part to eradicate breast cancer. The Foundation is celebrating its 10th year of funding breast cancer research with the endowment of Vera Bradley’s chair in Oncology, Dr. Linda Malkas, at the Indiana University Cancer Center, with more than $10 million donated to breast cancer research. Visit <a href="http://www.verabradley.org>verabradley.org</a> for more information.</p>
<p><strong>About Vera Bradley:</strong>Vera Bradley handbags, stationery, travel and eyewear are everywhere! Vera Bradley products have popped up on: Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, According to Jim, Samantha Who and in more than 20 feature-length films, as well as in celebrity gift lounges surrounding the 2009 Tony Awards and 2009 Daytime Emmys. With an award-winning float in the 2009 Rose Parade, 3,500 retailers and 25 corporate-owned stores across the nation, the Vera Bradley story is a testimony to the American Dream; friends Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R. Miller founded the company in 1982 with just a $500 investment. Visit <a href="http://www.verabradley.com>verabradley.com</a> for more information.</p>
<p><strong>Vera Bradley Retail Store Locations:</strong> The Summit, Birmingham, Ala.; Biltmore Fashion Park, Ariz.; San Francisco Centre, San Francisco, Calif.; Santana Row, San Jose, Calif.; The Americana at Brand, Glendale, Calif.; The Fountains, Roseville, Calif.; Park Meadows, Lone Tree, Colo.; The Falls, Miami, Fla.; Phipps Plaza, Atlanta, Ga.; Ala Moana Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; Deer Park Town Center, Deer Park, Ill.; Oakbrook Center, Oak Brook, Ill.; Clay Terrace, Carmel, Ind; Jefferson Pointe, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Town Center Plaza, Leawood, Kan.; The Natick Collection, Natick, Mass.; Somerset Collection North, Troy, Mich.; Bridgewater Commons, Bridgewater, N.J.; Shops at Riverside, Hackensack, N.J.; The Shops of Saddle Creek, Germantown, Tenn.; Watters Creek, Allen, TX; La Cantera TX; The Shops at Southlake Town Square, TX; Bellevue Square, Bellevue, Wash.; Bayshore Town Center, Glendale, Wis.</p>
<p><strong>Contact:</strong><br />
Melissa Schenkel<br /> mschenkel@verabradley.com<br />
(260) 437-7797</p>178Fort Wayne, Indiana2009-10-07T10:29:00-04:00Vera Bradley Foundation and Corso's Cookies Team Up for Breast Cancer Awareness2009-10-07T10:44:31-04:003