Research Shows Consumers Experience Heightened Stress Due to Holiday Preparations
Keep Your Cool: Take-Home Ice Cream Desserts Take the Stress Out of Holiday Entertaining; MaggieMoo's Offers Busy Consumers a Time-Saving Solution With Holiday-Themed Ice Cream Cakes and Cupcakes
| Source: MaggieMoo's
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - November 29, 2007) - Sometimes the pressure to be the perfect host
can take the fun out of holiday entertaining. The American Psychological
Association reports that 49 percent of women in the United States
experience heightened stress during the holidays due to planning parties,
extra cooking and shopping for gifts. This holiday season, MaggieMoo's, a
super-premium ice cream brand known for creating innovative frozen treats,
offers an extended line of seasonal ice cream
desserts to provide premium take-home options for holiday parties and
family gatherings.
"Every holiday season, our customers look for ways to spice up their menus
and impress guests with decadent dessert creations," commented Jennifer
Johnston, senior vice president of QSR brand marketing for NexCen Franchise
Management, parent company of MaggieMoo's. "MaggieMoo's is providing the
ideal solution to holiday planning with our expanded offerings of
innovative holiday ice cream cakes
and cupcakes. These desserts can be purchased in advance and kept in
the freezer until needed, saving customers precious time in the kitchen
while still presenting a unique dessert that both children and adults will
truly enjoy."
MaggieMoo's offers a wide selection of holiday-themed desserts, which can
be customized and made-to-order with any of its super-premium ice cream,
including seasonal flavors such as Pink Peppermint Stick and Egg Nog.
Below are some of the most popular desserts this season:
-- Pink Peppermint Stick Truffle Dream Cake -- made with Pink
Peppermint ice cream and homemade chocolate ganache, then trimmed with
chocolate flakes and peppermint sticks.
-- Santa, Reindeer, Holly and Dreidel Ice Cream Cupcakes -- the first
ice cream cupcake you can eat with a spoon -- available in a variety of
flavors and holiday designs and offer a convenient,
single-sized dessert.
-- Yule Log Ice Cream Dream Cake -- with its unique log-shape, this
cake can be customized with any one of MaggieMoo's ice cream flavors,
then topped with chocolate ganache and holly leaves with berries. Other
holiday Ice Cream Dream Cakes include the Ornament Dream Cake and the
Hanukkah Dream Cake.
Additionally, for the ice cream-lovers on your shopping list, MaggieMoo's
offers holiday gift cards now available in any of its 200 locations
nationwide or online at
www.maggiemoos.com.
Editor's Note: High resolution images and holiday ice cream cupcake recipes
are available.
About MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery (www.maggiemoos.com)
MaggieMoo's is owned by NexCen Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ : NEXC ). In July,
MaggieMoo's celebrated the opening of its 200th Treatery. Each location
features a menu of freshly made super-premium ice creams, mix-ins,
smoothies, sorbets, the country's first ice cream cupcakes and custom ice
cream cakes. MaggieMoo's has been awarded The National Ice Cream Retailers
Association's prestigious awards for taste, texture and overall appearance
for eight years running. It is the only national retail chain to win five
Blue Ribbon Awards for its products -- vanilla, vanilla bean, chocolate,
dark chocolate and strawberry ice cream flavors.
About NexCen Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ : NEXC ) (www.nexcenbrands.com)
NexCen Brands, Inc. is the premier 21st century vertically integrated
global brand acquisition and management company focused on assembling a
diversified portfolio of intellectual property-centric companies operating
in the consumer branded products and franchise industries. The Company
owns, licenses, franchises and markets a growing portfolio of consumer and
franchise brands including The Athlete's Foot®, Bill Blass®,
MaggieMoo's®, Marble Slab Creamery®, Pretzel Time®, and
Pretzelmaker® and Waverly®. The Company licenses and franchises its
brands to a network of leading retailers, manufacturers and franchisees
that includes every major segment of retail distribution from the luxury
market to the mass market in the U.S. and in over 50 countries around the
world, and consists of more than 1,500 franchised stores. NexCen, through
its information technology, franchisee support systems and advertising,
marketing and public relations team, markets its brands to continually
drive greater consumer awareness and brand equity for each of its brands.
NexCen touches nearly every aspect of a consumer's lifestyle from the food
they eat to the furnishings in their homes and the clothes and footwear
they purchase.