Rooted in a DeMent family speakeasy and nearly a century of cooking, Giovanni Foods makes tomato-based sauces and salsas while serving as a manufacturing partner for brands and retailers. The family-owned company grew from its grandmother’s Italian recipes and a kitchen-and-garage sauce business into a 174,000-square-foot Baldwinsville facility with six packaging lines. Its food-science and culinary team develops products collaboratively, from a customer’s recipe or from scratch, with an SQF Level-2-certified operation.
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Jule's Tomato SauceJule’s Tomato Sauce makes small-batch jarred tomato sauces from the recipe Pa Vitelli first cooked at his Jersey City restaurant in 1962. After Jule’s Italian Restaurant served the Westside Avenue neighborhood for more than 40 years, his children brought that unchanged sauce back to home kitchens, including the red sauce used in the restaurant’s famously towering lasagna. The company also supplies its marinara to food-service kitchens in five-gallon packaging.
DelGrosso Foods IncTracing its roots to an Italian immigrant’s pasta-sauce recipe from 1914, DelGrosso Foods makes pasta sauce as America’s oldest major family-owned producer in the category. Founded by Ferdinand and Mafalda DelGrosso, the company remains part of a family of food businesses that also includes prepared foods for fundraisers and takeout.TIPTON, PA
Private Label FoodsPrivate Label Foods began in 1989, when Bonnie Lavorato hand-bottled her BBQ sauce in a Rochester home kitchen. The company has kept that kitchen-table character while growing into a 125,000-square-foot, SQF-certified facility that helps brands bring recipes from early development into dependable production. It works with grocery programs, foodservice operators, and emerging brands that need a consistent manufacturing partner.ROCHESTER, NY
Vesper Bros. FoodsTwin brothers John and Bill Vesper carry on a family food tradition shaped by their father’s Wayne deli and Southern Italian roots. Vesper Bros. Foods packages the homemade “gravy” they grew up eating, preserving family recipes for home cooks beyond their parents’ store. The company’s signature sauces are made without preservatives or added sugar.WAYNE, PA