Toufayan Bakeries celebrates 50 years baking bread and lending a hand in the U.S.
Toufayan Bakeries, one of the largest family owned commercial bakeries in America, is celebrating 50 years in business in the US. Based in Ridgefield Park, NJ with additional manufacturing facilities in Plant City and Orlando, Florida, Toufayan, which sells more than 100 varieties of breads and baked goods, is credited with kicking off the pita craze and helping introduce US consumers to ethnic breads. The brand is recognized as a nimble innovator in the baked breads category. Founded by Harry Toufayan who now runs the business with his three adult children, Toufayan Bakeries marks this milestone anniversary with a 50K giveback to the communities in which they do business, a gesture in line with countless charitable contributions that have defined 5 decades in business.
Harry Toufayan grew up working in his father’s bakeries overseas. When the Toufayans immigrated to the US, Harry and his father sensed there was room to disrupt the US bread market which was dominated at the time by mass market white loaf breads. Harry opened the first US-based Toufayan Bakery in West New York, NJ in 1968 and quickly concluded that traditional and world-inspired breads could find a home in America.