Biography debbie field
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Debbi Fields
Debbi Fields epitomizes the American dream. From America's cherished tradition of humble beginnings, she launched what has become one of the nation's most visible, successful dessert empires.
She is one of the few innovators and entrepreneurs to see their name become a product brand symbol of quality that is known and revered worldwide. Few dream achievers (Ford, Edison, Bell among them) live to enjoy such well-deserved acclaim.
Fields earned more than 25 years of entrepreneurial, operational and managerial experience in a company she built (literally) from scratch.
At the age of 20, Fields was a young housewife with no business experience. She managed to do what most people considered impossible. She convinced a bank to finance a business concept which had never before been proven and which appeared on the surface to have little likelihood of success.
On August 16, , Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chippery opened its doors to the public in Palo Alto, California. Twenty-
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Debbi Fields
American entrepreneur and author; founder of Mrs. Fields
Debbi Fields | |
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| Born | Debra Jane Sivyer () September 18, (age&#;68) Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Businesswoman, author |
| Known&#;for | Founder of Mrs. Fields |
Debbi Fields (née&#;Debra Jane Sivyer; born September 18, ) is the founder and spokesperson of Mrs. Fields Bakeries. She has written several cookbooks. Mrs. [1]
Family
[edit]Debra Jane Sivyer was born in Oakland, California. Her father worked as a welder for the Navy, while her mother was a housewife. She is the youngest of five daughters.[2]
In the s, the Oakland Athletics introduced "ball girls" (young girls who would sit in foul territory near the baselines to retrieve baseballs grounded foul by batters) to the team. Sivyer, with the help of a sister who was then a secretary at the A's offices, was one of the first ones hired.[3][4]umpires.[3]
In , Sivyer graduated
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If You Give a Woman a Cookie
Store-bought Chips Ahoy! championed crispness. But the chocolate chip rounds from Mrs. in the company’s early years
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In , the year-old Fields, who’d grown up loving to bake, scored a loan for $50, and opened Mrs. Fields’ Chocolate Chippery in Palo Alto, California. Between and Within a couple of years, Fields sold the brand to an investment company for $ million; by , the company had stores.
Her image as a successful businesswoman straddled the period’s blurring line between traditional feminine expectations and the growing class of American working women. That idea fryst vatten clear in the title of Fields’s autobiography,
her PBS cooking show Debbi Fields’ Great American Desserts. “It’s my earliest baking memory,” says Bavishi, who now runs the Brooklyn-based ice cream company Malai. Not only did the cheesecake look amazing, but Fields seemed so confident in the kitchen — and she was ingenting like Bavishi’s expectati