ERIE – The Kroger Company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio has named Better Baked Foods in North East, Pennsylvania its Supplier of the Year for 2015. The Kroger Company operates 2,625 supermarkets in the United States and is the second largest retailer in the Unites States. Better Baked Foods manufactures single serve French Bread Pizza manufactured exclusively under the Kroger Foods brand and has been a supplier to the Kroger Company for more than 25 years. The supplier of the year award criteria measured quality, delivery and service.
Better Baked Foods was recognized over the more than 450 suppliers to Kroger with a formal presentation by Kroger executives at the Private Label Show in Chicago, Illinois. “It is a huge honor for us to be chosen as Supplier of the Year,” stated Joseph Pacinelli, president of Better Baked Foods. “Our owner, Bob Miller, never started this business to receive such an award however the attainment of the award exemplifies what we believe and practice every day and that is to be the best.”
Better Baked Foods with locations in Erie, North East, and Westfield, New York employs more than 400 associates. They are a national contract manufacturer that produces frozen bread based products for companies such as Kroger, Wegman’s, Aldi, Schwan’s, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg’s, General Mills, and Con Agra Foods.
