Baking & Snack - January 2009 - 99

Bread and Cake Producers

MICHIGAN
Sales: $5,000,000. Employees: 60. Route Trucks:
5. Transport Trucks: 5. Type: wholesale. Method:
conventional. Buns and rolls: hamburger and hot dog
buns, other bread-type rolls (Parkerhouse, Kaiser). Bun
and roll brands: Brown's.
Personnel: President - Michael Dinu; Vice-president
- Evelyn Dinu; General manager - William Buchanan.
METROPOLITAN BAKING CO.
8579 Lumpkin St., Detroit, MI 48212
Phone (313) 875-7246 * Fax (313) 875-7792
Internet: www.metropolitanbaking.com
Sales: $10,000,000. Employees: 75. Route Trucks:
40. Transport Trucks: 10. Type: wholesale, hotel,
restaurant, institutional. Method: conventional, straight
dough. Bread: white pan bread, white hearth, including
French, Italian, whole-wheat, cracked wheat, other
wheat, dark wheat bread, rye bread (all varieties).
Specialty bread: raisin bread, other specialty bread
(diet-type, potato, salt-rising, salt-free, canned). Buns
and rolls: other bread-type rolls (Parkerhouse, Kaiser).
Other baked foods produced: hearth rolls.
Personnel: President - Jim Kordas.

GRAND RAPIDS
ROSKAM BAKING CO.
(Mailing address: P.O. Box 202, Grand Rapids, MI
49501-0202), 1140 Butterworth St. S.W., Grand
Rapids, MI 49504-6197
Phone (616) 574-5757 * Fax (616) 771-9078
Employees: 99. Transport Trucks: 5. Type: wholesale,
private label. Method: continuous. Other baked foods
produced: bread crumbs, bread stuffing, croutons.
Personnel: President - Robert O. Roskam.
*SARA LEE FOOD & BEVERAGE
210 28th St., S.E., P.O. Box 7157,
Grand Rapids, MI 49510
Phone (616) 245-9127 * Fax (616) 245-2368
Route trucks: 146. Transport Trucks: 21. Type:
wholesale, grocer-owned, private label. Method:
conventional. Bread: white pan bread, whole-wheat,
cracked wheat, other wheat, dark wheat bread, rye
bread (all varieties). Specialty bread: raisin bread, other
specialty bread (diet-type, potato, salt-rising, salt-free,
canned). Buns and rolls: hamburger and hot dog buns,
brown 'n serve rolls. Sweet goods: cake-type donuts
(chemically leavened). White pan bread brands: Oven
Fresh, Lumber Jack.
Personnel: Plant manager - Bill Mackenzie.

HUDSONVILLE
CREME CURLS BAKERY, INC.
5292 Lawndale Ave., P.O. Box 276,
Hudsonville, MI 49426
Phone (616) 669-6230 * Fax (616) 669-2468
Sales: $10,000,000. Employees: 170. Type: wholesale.
Specialty bread: other specialty bread (diet-type,
potato, salt-rising, salt-free, canned). Sweet goods:
eclairs. Sweet good brands: Sea Foam Candy.
Personnel: President - Gary Bierling; Chief financial
officer - Lee W. DeBoer; Vice-president - Paul
Bierling; Sales and marketing manager - Michael
Burkett, Sr.

*AUNT MILLIE'S BAKERIES, INC.
(Way Bakery Division)
2100 Enterprise Dr., Micor Industrial Park,
Jackson, MI 49203
Phone (517) 787-6720 * Fax (517) 787-3021

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Personnel: Plant manager - Don Stewart.

Employees: 99. Transport Trucks: 14. Rail: Yes.
Type: wholesale. Method: conventional. Bread: white
pan bread, whole-wheat, cracked wheat, other wheat,
rye bread (all varieties). Specialty bread: other
specialty bread (diet-type, potato, salt-rising, salt-free,
canned). White pan bread brands: Holsum, Aunt
Millie's, Schafer.

*DAWN FOOD PRODUCTS, INC.
(Dawn Manufacturing)
2021 Micor Dr., Jackson, MI 49203
Phone (517) 789-4400; (800) 248-1144
Fax (517) 789-4495
Internet: www.dawnfoods.com

PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP
*AUNT MILLIE'S BAKERIES, INC.
45789 Port Ave., Plymouth Township, MI 48170
Phone (248) 698-4063
Type: wholesale. Method: conventional. Buns and
rolls: hamburger and hot dog buns. Buns and roll
brands: Aunt Millie's.

Personnel: General manager - Ron Wilcox.

KALAMAZOO

Personnel: Operations manager - Mike Flanagan.

*AUNT MILLIE'S BAKERIES, INC.
(Schafer Bakery Division)
807 Palmer St., Kalamazoo, MI 49001
Phone (616) 343-1217 * Fax (616) 343-2290

SOUTH HAVEN

Employees: 74. Route Trucks: 14. Transport Trucks:
5. Type: wholesale. Method: conventional. Bread: white
pan bread, white hearth, including French, Italian, wholewheat, cracked wheat, other wheat, dark wheat bread,
rye bread (all varieties). Specialty bread: raisin bread.
Buns and rolls: hamburger and hot dog buns, brown 'n
serve rolls, other bread-type rolls (Parkerhouse, Kaiser).
Bun and roll brands: Aunt Millie's, Perfection Deli &
Restaurant Brands.
Personnel: Production manager - Chad Kubasiak;
Engineering manager - Joey Lawrence.

LIVONIA
AWREY BAKERIES, INC.
12301 Farmington Rd., Livonia, MI 48150
Phone (734) 522-1100; (800) 950-2253
Fax (734) 522-1585
Internet: www.awrey.com

GOLDEN BROWN BAKERY
421 Phoenix St., South Haven, MI 49090
Phone (269) 637-3418 * Fax (269) 637-7822
Internet: www.goldenbrownbakery.com
Sales: $1,000,000. Employees: 44. Route Trucks: 2.
Type: wholesale, retail. Method: conventional, straight
dough. Bread: white pan bread, white hearth, including
French, Italian, whole-wheat, cracked wheat, other
wheat, rye bread (all varieties). Specialty bread: other
specialty bread (diet-type, potato, salt-rising, salt-free,
canned). Buns and rolls: hamburger and hot dog buns,
other bread-type rolls (Parkerhouse, Kaiser). Sweet
goods: sweet yeast goods (sweet rolls, coffee cakes),
yeast-raised donuts, cake-type donuts (chemically
leavened), cakes (all types, including pound, layer, fruit,
snack), eclairs, pies (all types, plus frozen). Other baked
foods produced: bagels, bread crumbs, muffins, bread
stuffing, croissants.
Personnel: President - David Braschler.

Sales: $70,000. Employees: 330. Transport Trucks:
1. Rail: Yes. Type: wholesale, retail, private label, hotel,
restaurant, institutional. Sweet goods: sweet yeast
goods (sweet rolls, coffee cakes), cakes (all types,
including pound, layer, fruit, snack). Other baked foods
produced: muffins, croissants. Sweet good brands:
Awrey, Marquise, Maestro, Grande.
Personnel: President, chief executive officer - Robert
A. Wallace; Chief financial officer - James J. Ostrowski;
Vice-president, operations - Mike Kaldorf; Director,
research and development - Rick Krolicki.

Employees: 99. Route trucks: 34. Transport trucks:

*COLE'S QUALITY FOODS, INC.
1188 Lakeshore Dr., Muskegon, MI 49441
Phone (231) 722-1651 * Fax (231) 722-6860
Internet: www.coles.com

Personnel: President, chief executive officer - John
Sommavilla; Chairman - W. Scott Devon; Chief financial
officer/chief operating officer - Cindy Havard; Senior
vice-president, engineering and production - Jeff
Lewandoski; Senior vice-president, sales - Ray Peuler.

Rail: Yes. Sweet goods: sweet yeast goods (sweet
rolls, coffee cakes), yeast-raised donuts, cake-type
donuts (chemically leavened), cakes (all types, including
pound, layer, fruit, snack), eclairs. Other baked foods
produced: muffins, croissants.

MARQUETTE

MUSKEGON

Sales: $50,000,000. Employees: 150. Type: retail,
private label. Method: straight dough. Bread: white pan
bread. White pan bread brands: Cole's.

Personnel: Director, operations - Brandon Hutchins.

*SARA LEE FOOD & BEVERAGE
855 W. Washington St., Marquette, MI 49855
Phone (906) 226-2587 * Fax (906) 226-2954
(*Indicates part of multiple-unit)

5. Rail: Yes. Type: wholesale. Bread: white pan bread,
whole-wheat, cracked wheat, other wheat, dark wheat
bread, rye bread (all varieties). Buns and rolls:
hamburger and hot dog buns. White pan bread brands:
Taystee, Pillsbury. Other bread brands: Country Hearth,
Healthy Choice, D'Italiano, Master, Roman Meal.

JACKSON

TRAVERSE CITY
POTTER'S FINE PASTRIES
908 E. Eighth St., Traverse City, MI 49686-2750
Phone (231) 947-5125 * Fax (231) 947-5860
Internet: www.pottersbakery.com
Employees: 40. Route Trucks: 2. Type: wholesale,
retail. Method: conventional. Bread: white pan bread,
white hearth, including French, Italian, whole-wheat,
cracked wheat, other wheat, dark wheat bread, rye
bread (all varieties). Specialty bread: raisin bread, other
specialty bread (diet-type, potato, salt-rising, salt-free,
canned). Buns and rolls: hamburger and hot dog buns,
other bread-type rolls (Parkerhouse, Kaiser), English
muffins. Sweet goods: sweet yeast goods (sweet rolls,
coffee cakes), yeast-raised donuts, cake-type donuts
(chemically leavened), cakes (all types, including pound,
layer, fruit, snack), eclairs, pies (all types, plus frozen).

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