Redstone

Redstone Foods (Redstone Food Group) is a bakery manufacturer serving retail and foodservice customers in Canada and the United States. Its product range spans artisan par-baked breads, thaw-and-sell sliced artisan breads, frozen dough and rolls, laminated products, garlic bread items, coffee cakes, muffin batters, raw frozen cookies and loaf cakes. Catalogued bread items include Belgian bread, Belgian cheese bread, calabrese baguette and lungo, baguettes, mini calabrese, multigrain batard, olive boule, olive sticks, plain sticks, sourdough miche and sliced white miche.

The company operates through three brands. The Redstone brand covers artisan par-bake and sliced breads, frozen dough and rolls. Le Bon, acquired in 2019 and originally called Le Bon Croissant, began in long-process croissant and laminated product manufacturing and now concentrates on private label garlic bread products. Tasty Selection, acquired in 2023, produces coffee cakes, muffin batters in pailed, pre-baked and baked clamshell formats, raw frozen cookies and loaf cakes.

Redstone owns and operates three industrial bakeries in the Greater Toronto Area totalling more than 100,000 square feet of production space. All bakery facilities are certified to Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standards, and the company states a mission of producing high-quality frozen bakery products for retail and foodservice channels across Canada and the United States with a priority on food safety.

Founding story

The company was founded in the 1970s by Jan Gorecki after his career as bakery manager at Dominion stores, and was incorporated in 1972 to manufacture bakery products for A&P stores, which had purchased the Dominion chain.

Business model

Redstone manufactures frozen and par-baked bakery goods primarily on a private label basis, producing products that customers sell under their own brands, while also operating its own brand families: Redstone (artisan par-bake and thaw-and-sell sliced breads, frozen dough, rolls), Le Bon (private label garlic bread, garlic toast, rolls, knots and spreads) and Tasty Selection (coffee cakes, muffin batters, raw frozen cookies, loaf cakes). It emphasizes flexibility and scalability of production runs and product development work alongside base manufacturing operations.

Revenue comes from manufacturing and selling frozen and par-baked bakery products to retail and foodservice customers, largely under private label arrangements as well as through its own brand lines.

Traction

Redstone operates three industrial bakeries in the Greater Toronto Area with more than 100,000 square feet of production capacity and reports long-term partnerships with customers across Canada and the United States.