About The Manufacturers

Azteca

Recognized as a pioneer in the refrigerated tortilla business, Azteca Foods, Inc. started in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago as a vision of Art Velasquez and nine other Mexican American businessmen and members of the Azteca Lions Club. With a passion for quality Mexican food and a dream to positively contribute to the economic development of their community, Velasquez and his business partners each invested $8,000 in 1969 to found the Azteca Corn Products Corporation. At a time when Mexican food was not mainstream, the founding members built the company on a strong desire to bring traditional Mexican foods to a wider group of consumers outside their own neighborhood. With the sale of Azteca Corn Products Corporation as a wholly owned subsidiary to The Pillsbury Company in 1984, the Azteca^® brand grew tremendously due to a broad-based product line, application of new technology and investment in advanced production facilities. In 1989, Velasquez and his wife Joanne bought back the assets of the business from The Pillsbury Company and changed the name to Azteca Foods, Inc.
Azteca^® has grown to become a multimillion-dollar business still family-owned by the Velasquez family. Located on the southwest side of Chicago, Azteca^® operates in a 100,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, which employs over 135 people. Azteca^® prides itself in developing the first refrigerated tortilla using fewer preservatives to bring extended shelf life to its category, while maintaining strict quality control to ensure only the freshest and highest-quality products available. The company continues to revolutionize the industry and grow its product line with the addition of bake-and-fill salad shells, tortilla chips and new Azteca^™ Meal Essentials.
Although Azteca Foods, Inc. has grown to serve national and international markets, the Velasquez family remains committed to Chicago and the Latino community through participation on more than 20 not-for-profit boards.
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The ComfortCake Kitchen, LLC

The ComfortCake Kitchen’s products are distributed nationally through foodservice and retail channels and its website (www.comfortcake.com). In addition to pizza crust, the Company produces its signature ComfortCake^® pound cake as cakes, slices, batter, and mix. The ComfortCake Kitchen produces other baked goods as well, both sweet and savory. ComfortCake, a certified minority-owned business, will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2011.. Click ad to enlarge

ConAgra Mills

Since we sold our first bag of flour in 1867, ConAgra Mills has steadily grown into its position as the leading source for quality grain ingredients. We offer the most comprehensive selection of premium multi-use flours in the industry—-from baking basics like pastry or hard spring wheat flour to durum semolina for pasta, to custom flour formulations and multigrain blends.
Yet as much as we value our past, we're looking toward the future, too. As whole grains become a top choice for consumers, we've been at the forefront of ingredient development, not only supplying traditional whole grain rye and wheat flours, but also introducing breakthrough ingredients like Ultragrain^® and Sustagrain^®. Click ad to enlarge

Dick & Jane

Dick is the entrepreneur while Jane is a 1st grade teacher. Together we formed Dick and Jane Baking Company to launch our line of “educational snacks”. Delicious, All-Natural and Loaded with Learning, SMART Cookies were designed to help kids eat right & do well in school. SMART Cookies are 100% NUT Free and made with 65% whole grain (1st ingredient) and are available in three (3) varieties…States & Capitals, Presidents and the new bi-lingual, English & Spanish edition.

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Domino's

Founded in 1960, Domino's Pizza^® is the recognized world leader in pizza delivery. Domino’s is listed on the NYSE under the symbol “DPZ.” Through its primarily locally-owned and operated franchise system, Domino’s operates a network of 8,873 stores in the United States and 60 international markets. The Domino's Pizza^® brand, named a Megabrand by Advertising Age magazine, had global retail sales of over $5.5 billion in 2008, comprised of nearly $3.1 billion domestically and over $2.4 billion internationally. Domino's Pizza was named “Chain of the Year” by Pizza Today magazine, the leading publication of the pizza industry. In 2009 Domino's ranked number one in customer satisfaction in a survey of consumers of the U.S. largest limited service restaurants, according to the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Click ad to enlarge

EONI

EONI brings you Earth’s Own Natural Ingredients in a delicious, healthy snack that is perfect any time of day. EONI Barookies are a perfect blend of fat, carbohydrate and protein making them an excellent source of sustained energy and optimal nutrition. Click ad to enlarge

Flowers Bakeries Foodservice

Flowers Bakeries Foodservices offers a full line of bread and snack products. From commodity bread and buns to specialty sandwich buns and premium loaves, Flowers Foodservice’s product line can meet all of your bread needs. Available nationally through foodservice distributors, the Mountain Farm and European Bakers product lines have a bread solution for every foodservice segment. Serving the foodservice industry with high quality foodservice products is Flowers Bakeries Foodservice’s only mission. Click ad to enlarge

Integrated Food Service

Integrated Food Service brought you the Original Grilled Cheese, now we bring you the most nutritious! In the school foodservice market, we sell both commodity and non-commodity items Nationally. IFS maintains a National Donated Food Processing Agreement. In order to better manage and process these commodities into the best quality and cost effective products, we currently accept only two items, (B119) Reduced Fat Processed Cheese and (A594) Coarse Ground Beef. This also enables us to utilize new commodity programs such as “Net off Invoice”. NOI allows us to partner with National and Regional Food Service distributors to seamlessly pass the value of USDA government commodities to schools and other recipient agencies. IFS is continually working on new, innovative products and potential opportunities in the retail, institutional and school segments. We are able to react to the needs of our customers in a timely manner which gives us a competitive edge when compared with our larger competitors. We are committed to and will continue to expand our current “grab and go” offerings as well as our value added beef products to answer the call of the ever changing needs of our customers. Click ad to enlarge

JM Swank

For more than 50 years, our organization has provided food manufacturing customers with a broad range of high quality ingredients, in-depth industry knowledge, and service excellence.

The J.M. Swank Co. strongly believes that it is well positioned to provide service in the ever-changing food industry marketplace. We continue to evaluate and expand our distribution model to provide a totally integrated supply chain from the manufacturer to your door.. Click ad to enlarge

Kellogg Company

With 2008 sales of nearly $13 billion, Kellogg Company is the world’s leading producer of cereal and a leading producer of convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles and veggie foods. The company’s brands include Kellogg’s^®, Keebler^®, Pop-Tarts^®, Eggo^®, Cheez-It^®, Club^®, Nutri-Grain^®, Rice Krispies^®, Special K^®, All-Bran^®, Mini-Wheats ^®, Morningstar Farms^® , Famous Amos^®, Ready Crust^® , Kashi^®, Stretch Island^® , Bear Naked^® and Gardenburger^® . Kellogg products are manufactured in 19 countries and marketed in more than 180 countries around the world. Click ad to enlarge

Pepperidge Farm

Pepperidge Farm, Incorporated, based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a leading provider of premium quality fresh bakery products, cookies, crackers, and frozen foods. The company was named the number one place to work in Connecticut in the large companies category of the Best Places to Work in Connecticut competition for 2009. Among the company’s most popular products are Chocolate Chunk and Milano® cookies, Goldfish® crackers, and more than 50 varieties of fresh baked breads including Swirl, Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse, 100% Natural and Whole Grain. The company recently added Ecce Panis® gourmet artisan breads to its portfolio.

Pepperidge Farm was founded in Connecticut in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, an entrepreneurial homemaker who began baking fresh, all-natural bread for her allergy-afflicted son. The company is now a nationwide business with 9 manufacturing facilities, almost 5,000 employees, 3,500 independent distributorships operating 4,000 trucks, and over $1.45 billion in sales. Pepperidge Farm has been part of the Campbell Soup Company since 1961.

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