Founded in the mid-1990s by father-and-son team William and Michael O’Flaherty, Creative Food Ingredients makes baked cookie ingredients at its commercial bakery in Perry, New York. Now part of Parker Products, the company employs more than 200 people and operates seven continuous-band ovens across three buildings, serving customers in North America and abroad. Its R&D team helps move cookie concepts from laboratory prototypes through commercialization, with custom grinding, packaging and private-label support.
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EFCO ProductsFrom a horse-drawn flour cart in the Hudson Valley, EFCO Products has grown into a family-owned and operated Poughkeepsie manufacturer of bakery fillings and mixes, beverage ingredients, sauces and specialty food ingredients. Founded in 1903, the Effron family business remains at its original Smith and Oakley Streets location and now serves food companies around the world with both standard and custom-formulated products. EFCO also develops clean-label solutions such as OPAQ, its calcium-based replacement for titanium dioxide.POUGHKEEPSIE, NY
The Famous 4th Street Cookie CompanyFor more than 40 years, The Famous 4th Street Cookie Company has baked Philadelphia’s hometown cookies from a treasured family recipe, including its signature big, thick chocolate chip cookie. Rooted in the former 4th and Bainbridge Streets location and now baking at its East Falls bakery, the company uses all-natural ingredients without preservatives or artificial flavors. Cookies are baked and shipped the same day so they arrive soft and homemade-tasting.PHILADELPHIA, PA
BakeMarkSince 1892, BakeMark has manufactured and distributed bakery ingredients and supplies across the United States and Canada. Its seven North American manufacturing plants support a network of 38 distribution centers, while technical and research teams help bakeries develop both standard and custom solutions. BakeMark also produces its own established brands, including Westco, which has been part of the baking industry since 1928.FAIRFIELD, OH
Abel + Schafer, Inc. USAFounded as a mill in 1892, Abel + Schafer, Inc. USA manufactures commercial bakery ingredients, including the baking mixes and bases sold under its KOMPLET brand. Established in New York in 1982, the company now produces more than 200 products at its Ronkonkoma manufacturing plant for bakeries and food businesses across North and South America. Its history is rooted in an early adoption of formulated baking premixes, first introduced by the wider Abel + Schafer group in 1958.RONKONKOMA, NY