Lindale Gets a Collin Street Bakery

LINDALE – A new store has opened in Lindale. Its grand opening will be next month. It’s the Collin Street Bakery. Known for its fruitcake, the Corsicana-based Collin Street Bakery’s new store is at the intersection of Farm Road 849 and Interstate 20. The Lindale bakery also offers sandwiches, soups, cookies, pies, cakes and breads. Collin Street spokesman Hayden Crawford said the company has one of its best customer bases in East Texas, so it made perfect sense for the company to build its fourth location near Lindale.

Store manager Guy Robichaux has been with the company four years and said he was excited about the future of his store. “We are really blessed to be in a location such as this,” he said. “All the city officials have been so very kind and gracious; they’ve made us feel very welcome.’’

Collin Street Bakery was founded in 1896 by German immigrant August Wiederman. Its signature item has been, and continues to be its fruitcake. It accounts for 98% of the bakery’s total sales. The company sells about 3 million pounds of fruitcake each year, which equates to 1.5 million individual cakes. The bakery ships to 196 countries. The majority of orders are placed from October through November.