Family-owned and operated for four generations, L&S Packing Company is a specialty food manufacturer and importer known for helping consumer brands bring private-label products to market. Its team works with partners from product discussions through rollout, with a focus on sauces and condiments made in its own plant.
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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
Brooks' Bottling Co., LLCBorn from the sauces of upstate New York’s Brooks House of Bar-B-Q, Brooks’ Bottling Co. develops and bottles private-label and co-packed food products for brands, restaurants, and retailers. The separate business was created in 2013 after Brooks began bottling its signature recipes by hand in 1951, and it now draws on more than 60 years in the barbecue business, a third-generation family-owned operation, and more than 300 bottling clients. Its capabilities include certified organic production through CCOF and a private-label line of more than 100 recipes.ONEONTA, NY
Giovanni FoodsRooted 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.BALDWINSVILLE, NY
Pellicano Specialty Foods, IncPellicano Specialty Foods grew from a home-kitchen sauce business into a Buffalo, New York manufacturing company that makes sauces and related food products for its own brands, restaurants, and retailers. Serving the Buffalo area for over 30 years, it specializes in helping customers bring recipes to market through custom packing, co-packing, and private-label production. Its Italian-inspired pasta and pizza sauces sit alongside the long-running Ferrante’s chicken wing sauce brand, whose original formula dates to the 1980s.NORTH TONAWANDA, NY