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After exiting Famous Amos, Amos founded several other brands including Uncle Noname (referencing the loss of his name and image) and Uncle Wally’s Muffin Co., which is still in business today.
In the early 1990s, he launched Wally Amos Presents cookies, but the new owners of Famous Amos cookies sued him for trademark infringement and forbade him from using his own name and likeness.
The 76-year-old is now selling his cookies at candy store Boardwalk Treats under the name, The Cookie Kahuna. Amos has reinvented himself more than a half-dozen times since losing ownership of the ...
The Chip and Cookie brand was owned by Amos, and has a slightly different recipe than the one used by Kellogg's. [citation needed] In July 2019, the Kellogg company completed the sale of Keebler cookies (including Famous Amos) to Ferrero SpA. [14] [15] The Keebler brand is manufactured by the Ferrero Groups US subsidiary Ferrara. [16]
Amos created the Famous Amos cookie empire and eventually lost ownership of the company — as well as the rights to use the catchy Amos name. In his later years, he became a proprietor of a ...
In March of that year, the first Famous Amos cookie store opened in Los Angeles, California. [7] He started the business with the help of a $25,000 loan from Marvin Gaye and Helen Reddy. [4] The company began to expand, and eventually, Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies could be found on supermarket shelves across the United States.
Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr., founder of the "Famous Amos" cookies known and beloved nationwide, died at 88 on Wednesday, his family said. The American entrepreneur died peacefully at his home with ...
Wally Amos, who created Famous Amos cookies in 1975, died on Aug. 13 from complications of dementia ... Wally Amos continued in the baked goods business after selling Famous Amos in the 1980s “I ...