I've read through all the documents and can't find anything that indicates how I would get a return on my investment. The Wefunder documentation references multiple classes of investments, but I haven't been able to locate anything that tells me which of these applies to the T...

Hi Coll, Thanks for the question. Your investment in Tucson Tamale would be in a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity). A SAFE grants an investor the right to obtain equity at a future date if Tucson Tamale sells shares in a future financing. If you invest, you are betting that Tucson Tamale will be worth more than $25M eventually. Please find more information about SAFEs here. Also note, there are no guarantees of any return. Please only invest if you want and only at the amount you are ...

As a plant based eater, I have appreciated your vegan selections. Can you tell me if your future food items will also have vegan selections?

Hi Jennifer. Our philosophy has always been to start by making the best product possible, flavor, taste, ingredients, convenience, nutrition and always keeping dietary preferences/needs in mind. That said, we will always look at vegetarian/vegan options as part of any new items we launch. As you saw in the video we are preparing our Tamale Bites and a line of Fresh Pack Salsas. All the Salsa are naturally vegan and one of the Tamale Bite profiles is vegetarian.

Good work thus far, I have liked what I have reviewed but have a few more inquiries. What is your exit strategy to get you from today to the liquidation event? What is the estimated time between those two dates? Lastly, how have you positioned yourselves for the liquidation ev...

Hi Luke, We will be looking at an exit strategy at some point in the future. When and how we exit will be dependent on so many unknown future variables, such as size of the business, timing, who and/or how the exit would work. I know this may sound simple, but we are positioning ourselves for an exit by growing the business as large as possible. We have established relationships in the investment community and will continue to cultivate those relationships. Thanks, Sherry & Todd

I invested $1,000 and was under the impression that I could receive a discount on the purchase of your various products. How does one activate this discount? Can the discount be used at any location? Thanks.

Hi Andrew, Once we get the funding (the first round of funding is tomorrow), we will be sending out the discount codes to the email address you invested with. The discount can be used online (Nationwide Shipping) and at our physical location at 7286 N Oracle Road in Tucson

I love your tamales, but find your Green Chile and Cheese variety less sweet than the traditional Sonoran Green Corn Tamales of my youth. How much would I need to invest to sweeten things up just for me?

Thanks for the feedback, Kelly. And, I loved your PUN!! The tamale of your youth likely had some added sugar to literally sweeten it up. We don't add any sugar -- just the sweet organic corn.

Tucson Tamale Company

The #1 Premium Tamale in the US aiming to be the #1 Premium Mexican Food Company

tucsontamale.com

Tucson, Arizona

Female Founder B2B Food & Beverage B2C Minority Founder

Highlights

🏆 Tucson Tamale is the #1 Premium Tamale Brand

Averaged over 30% YOY growth the past 3 years (2019-2021)

Our products are available in over 5,000 Locations. Including Whole Foods, Sprouts and Kroger

🌮 The North American Tamale market will grow by over $100 MILLION by 2025 (technavio)

Team

Why Tucson Tamale Company?

In December 2008, we started our tamale journey in a 1,000 sq ft funky little take out shop. Our mission was to make a premium “better for you” delicious tasting tamale. The shop was near both the University and downtown and attracted a wide variety of customers. It did not take long for the word to get out that we were on to something special. We were making tamales that were both traditional and innovative.

We were selling our tamales all over Arizona and in 2016, we made our first big leap and opened our own manufacturing facility so that we could expand Nationally. In 2022, we opened our 2nd manufacturing facility to keep up with demand.

We started out with 4 part time employees making 200 tamales a day to 60 full time employees making 35,000 tamales a day. From one humble little 1,000 sq ft shop to 28,000 sq feet of manufacturing and warehouse facilities to support being sold in over 5,000 grocery stores, 500 Deli’s and online for shipment anywhere in the States. And we have just scratched the surface!

We are the #1 Premium Tamale Brand and we are going to transition that to the #1 Premium Mexican Food Brand.

Using the same product philosophy and Mission that has propelled our Tamales to the number one premium Tamale in the country, we will use that to launch and grow other premium Mexican ready to eat foods for our growing and loyal consumer base.

There is a demand for premium, restaurant quality, better-for-you ethnic foods. Mexican and Latin foods and flavors have a broad appeal. We are going to take what we did with tamales and apply that premium lens to other Mexican and Latin Food.
As a self manufacturer with a strong eCommerce business, we can rapidly innovate, test and launch successful new premium Mexican foods into the CPG landscape.
We can get rich insights and feedback and from real customers and use that for propensity to purchase at retail.

Thanks to our flexible manufacturing process and the variety of our flavor
profiles, our tamales are a great fit in multiple channels!

TWIN PACKS
6 SKUs in National Retail Distribution sold in Frozen Entrees and Handheld.
14 SKUs in eCommerce.

SINGLE SERVE
10 SKUs in National Retail Distribution in Frozen Natural Handheld. Also sold
in Colleges & Universities, Grab & Go Deli, Convenience Stores, Business &
Institutions and eCommerce.

FOOD SERVICE
8 SKUS in National Distribution and sold in Grocery Deli, Restaurants,
Business and Institutions and Direct eCommerce.

FAMILY PACKS
2 SKUs launching Fall 2022

HOT & SPICY Tamales
3 SKUS in National Distribution sold in Frozen Handheld, Convenience Stores
and Ecommerce

HOT PEPPER SAUCE
3 SKUs National Distribution sold in Center Store and Ecommerce