A recently completed expansion at
Italian Home Bakery Ltd. in Etobicoke is expected to create 45 new jobs at the company. A new test kitchen and new production and baking equipment were unveiled late last month, an expansion made possible in part by a
$1.4 million contribution from the federal government.
John Rossetti, Chief Financial Officer and
co-president of Italian Home Bakery
cited the "enormous opportunity for growth" and said the company's new facilities would allow wider distribution. "This expansion will allow us to take a product that has only been
available to the Toronto market and distribute it across Canada and the
United States," he said.
It's just the latest growth phase after
a decade of rapid expansion, as detailed in a recent article in
Baking Management. Rosetti and his brother Dennis bought the company in the mid-1990s -- at the time it was run by the five partners who founded it in 1955, with limited distribution to grocery stores and little long-term planning. Since then the company has built an entirely new 70,000-square-foot plant and expanded widely. Its Kaiser Bun has been named "Best in the City" by
Toronto Life magazine.
Writer: Edward Keenan
Sources: Gary Toft, Director of Communications, Office of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, FedDev Ontario;
John Rossetti, Chief Financial Officer and
Co-President of Italian Home Bakery;
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