Negative press surrounding Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory’s newest partner shouldn’t affect the chocolatier or its investors, a company chief said this week.
“I don’t think there’s a concern about it negatively affecting us,†said Bryan Merryman, chief operating officer for the chocolate factory, Durango’s only publicly traded company.
Since teaming up with Cold Stone Creamery in 2008, the chocolatier, in its quarterly reports to investors, has attributed countless successes to the partnership. Company revenues are up, investors are reaping quarterly dividends and the chocolatier has weathered the recession “better than most retail systems,†Merryman said. But a few of the company’s local stockholders’ brows raised when… read on.