Oreo facts and figures
The iconic Oreo cookie sold in 100 countries, also celebrates its 100th anniversary March 6. Here are some Oreo facts and figures:
- In the same year that the Oreo was born, the South Pole was discovered and the Titanic sank.
- The first Oreo cookie was sold in Hoboken, NJ, where the cookies were originally packaged in bulk tins and sold by weight. Back then, grocers paid USD $0.30 cents/lb for Oreo.
- Oreos have a street named after them in New York, called Oreo Way, formerly known as West 15th Street between 9th & 10 Avenues in New York City where the first cookie was made at the original
Nabisco bakery.
- The first Oreo cookie was embossed with a thin wreath on the outer edge, with the Oreo name on the plain surface in the middle.
- Oreo is the best-selling cookie brand of the 21st century, with $1.5 (€1.1) billion in global annual revenues.
- Biggest markets based on 2010 data: US, China, Venezuela, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Spain, Central America and the Caribbean, UK and Argentina.
- Twist, Lick, Dunk Ritual: 50 percent of all Oreo eaters pull apart their cookies before eating, with women twisting them open more often than men.
