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.
Fairtrade International
KOF-K Kosher Supervision
Northeast Organic Farmers Association of New York
Rainforest Alliance
RSPO
Safe Quality Food Institute
SQF
Quality certification
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
Cheryl’s CookiesFounded in 1981, Cheryl’s Cookies is an Ohio bakery business known for its buttercream-frosted cutout cookies, made according to original recipes and hand-iced with its signature four-ingredient frosting. It also produces other baked goods and supplies gift assortments through its retail stores, website, wholesale division, and corporate gift services; the company joined the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. family in 2005.WESTERVILLE, 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