Bakery entrepreneur advises how to make 'dough' in tough economy at Nashville Business Breakfast

Janel Shoun | 

 

The "Bun Lady"
Cordia Harrington, CEO and president of the Tennessee Bun Company, will speak at the Nashville Business Breakfast, at 7 a.m., Wednesday, March 11 on “Making Dough in Tough Economic Times.”
 
Cost of the breakfast is $30 in advance and $40 at the door. Click here to register online or call 615.966.6609.

The Nashville Business Breakfast is a lecture series featuring business leaders with local economic impact presented by Lipscomb University and the Nashville Business Journal. Past speakers include former Mayor Bill Purcell; Wayne Smith, CEO of Community Health Systems; and Gregg Morton, president of AT&T Tennessee.
 
 
More about Cordia Harrington
 
Harrington founded Tennessee Bun Company in 1996 and now supplies buns to restaurants such as McDonald’s, Chili’s and Pepperidge Farm. TBC is one of the most highly automated bakeries in the world, producing 1,000 buns per minute and shipping to 40 states east of the Rockies and to the Caribbean.
 
Harrington has been a long-time entrepreneur in Nashville, opening the Nashville Bun Company, a producer of English muffins for McDonald’s, Perkins and others in 1999; opening Bun Lady Transport in 1999; purchasing  the Cold Storage of Nashville freezer facility in 2005; and beginning production at CornerStone Baking Company in 2007.
 
Harrington has been nationally recognized in features on the CBS Early Show, ABC’s Money Matters, NPR’s Motley Fool and NBC Nightly News. She was number 16 in FAST Company magazine’s Fastest Growing Woman-Owned Business list in 2004 and Woman Business Owner of the Year in 2000 (National Association of Women Business Owners).
 
In Nashville, her companies have received recognition in Nashville’s Future 50 since 1999, and she has been named a finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards and in the Nashville Business Journal’s Best in Business Awards.
 

In 2007, Harrington was recognized as Executive of the Year by the Excellence in Manufacturing Awards, and the Nashville Bun Company was honored by a visit from President George W. Bush.

An active member of the community, Harrington is a member of the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation, Leadership Nashville, the St. Thomas Health Services Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Board.