Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes & More

Website: 

www.cbcrabcakes.com 

Headquarters:

8805 Kelso Drive
Baltimore, MD 21221 

Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes & More represents the flagship brand for the company’s premier catalog, retail store and internet line of products. Menu items in these categories include an extraordinary selection of seafood delicacies for which Astral Foods is famous. Savory selections include world-famous crab cakes, gourmet seafood soups featuring jumbo lump crabmeat and farm-fresh vegetables and appetizers, such as Baby Cakes—a bite-size version of the four-ounce Perfect Crab Cake. Hearty favorites include Colossal Crab Cakes at six ounces each, seafood pizzas and jumbo shrimp.

Key Milestones:

  • Brand inception: 1981
  • Earned reputation as having the "World’s Best Crab Cake": 1995
  • Formed World Class Fulfillment: 1995
  • Named "Best Crab Cake You Can Get By Mail" by Baltimore Magazine: 2002
  • Steve Cohen named President: 2004
  • Sold the 30 millionth crab cake: 2005
  • Launched first retail store and franchise concept: 2005
  • 25th anniversary: 2006
Latest News
06/18/2007
"Let Them Eat Cake"

Cheasapeake Bay Crab Cakes & More Makes the "O" List.

 

 

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09/29/2006
"A Crab Cake for All Seasons"

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – September 29, 2006 – Crabs are traditionally a summertime food, when varieties like the Maryland blue are at their peak. But many diners are eating them year-round in another form: the crab cake. These patties, made from little more than crab meat, filler (mostly break crumbs or crackers) and a few spices, have long been a regional favorite in Maryland. Specialty mail-order retailers say that business is up across the country. Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes & More, a Baltimore company, says it sold five million crab cakes last year, including on the QVC shopping network. Sales have recently been growing 40% annually. Smaller vendors are also finding success: The Crab Place, based in Crisfield, Md., says it has shipped its crab cakes to all 50 states. Annual sales of the product have risen 33%, to about $300,000, in the past year.

 

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