Katie Reilly's Irish Soda Bread Mix is Created

1997:  Celtic Passions, LLC, a privately held Limited Liability Company, was founded in September, 1997 by Joanne Manley and her mother Jo Naughton. The Company began with one product in mind, namely "Katie Reilly's Irish Soda Bread Mix."  This product, which Jo and Joanne were extremely passionate about, contained the original Irish Soda Bread recipe of Jo Naughton's mother, Katie Reilly, who came to the United States in 1909 from County Galway, Ireland.  The product was sold to Irish Gift/Food Stores and Gourmet Shops beginning on the East Coast and then into the Midwest.  Its success was achieved through marketing the product as both a gift item and a gourmet food item.