IN August 1996, Wally Amos's cookie company was bankrupt.

If the bid is accepted, Campbell, owner of Pepperidge Farms, will take control of the world's seventh-largest cookie company.

She's lost everything including her cookie company, home, and possessions.

Wyndham is made up of eight cookie companies in the South, including the nation's largest baker of Girl Scout cookies.

Thanks in part to the success of his cookie company, he was hired to deliver speeches.

Gobbling up other cookie companies also makes fuller use of Keebler's manufacturing capacity, which is running at only 82 percent even after the Sunshine purchase.

Stories of his starting a cookie company rarely pop up outside small-business forums.

The Prince's cookie company is expanding at a time when the royal family is becoming more active in promoting commercial activities.

Born deaf, Libman overcame his "disability" to run the cookie company by himself for more than 20 years.

Mrs. Fields, 31 years old and the president and chief executive of the cookie company, has vowed to fight, the company said today.