Gold Medal Bakery

Story

The bakery has been operated as a family business since it was founded by Auguste LeComte in 1912 when he installed a large oven in a basement in Fall River. He made bread using the same ingredients and care that went into home-baked bread. Productivity quickly soared to 4,500 loaves per week. His success was such that he constructed a new, modern plant at the corner of Lindsey and Monte Streets which employed nine people including four bakers and four regular delivery routes.

After Auguste’s death in 1936, the bakery continued to grow and modernized under direction of his sons, Roland and Leo LeComte. In 1952, the first “traveling oven” which was completely automatic, was installed in a newly remodeled plant.

In 1969, a new ultra-modern plant was built on Bay Street, Fall River. In 1990, Gold Medal bought the G.T.E. Sylvania Building, totally renovating the building, adding a maintenance garage, shipping doors and a 150’ enclosed walkway and cooling tunnel.

In 2002, Gold Medal expanded the Shipping Department by 29,600 square feet to include more docks. In 2004, Gold Medal installed two top-of-the line emergency generators to eliminate production interruptions associated with power outages, ensuring that our Customers will be provided product on a consistent basis every day.

Today, it is the most modern, technologically advanced bakery in the area, working around the clock to provide fresh-baked goods to area food stores, restaurants, and institutions. It can produce over two million loaves of bread per week. The bakery produces and transports “high quality” bread product to New England and beyond.

The bakery is still locally owned and managed by the LeComte family, specifically Roland LeComte, the President, under whose leadership the bakery has achieved a tradition of excellence that has made it the area’s leading baked goods manufacturer. While the bakery has changed a great deal since Gold Medal Bakery’s modest beginnings, the owners are firm in their belief that one thing will never change — that is Gold Medal’s ability to keep in touch with its customers and respond to their needs, faster and better than any other bakery. Judging from some of our customers, we are definitely fulfilling that belief.

We are very optimistic about the future of our Company as it continues to grow and meet the needs of the market that Auguste LeComte originally capitalized on. With the confidence and enthusiasm of our talented personnel, Gold Medal Bakery will continue to strive for excellence.

Mission

Gold Medal Bakery’s mission is to provide a product of the greatest possible value to our customers thereby gaining and holding their respect and loyalty while achieving sufficient profit to finance our company and its growth.

Our first responsibility is to our customers. Without them we would have no reason for being. We cater to our customers in a professional manner by offering quality merchandise, competitively priced, and delivered with courtesy and professionalism.

We feel a deep responsibility to our employees. We are committed to a safe work environment for all those employed. We seek to hire the best people we can find and to create a work environment where every employee is provided the opportunity to develop to their maximum potential.

We believe growth is necessary to provide opportunities on an ever increasing scale for our people. Therefore, we are dedicated to profitable growth - growth as a company and as individuals.

We strive to be a leader using the latest technology and engineering to carry us into other areas such as new products or new automated equipment.

Gold Medal Bakery is committed to further growth and excellence using whatever measures are available to carry our Company into the future.

Products

We produce and distribute products under the Gold Medal label, as well as numerous other labels that you find on many grocers’ shelves across an eight state area. We also are the major producer of Private Label breads for the Northeast. We not only produce white bread, but we produce a variety of bread products such as: wheat, 100% wheat, split top wheat, cracked wheat, raisin, oatmeal, all-natural, premium, Italian, breakfast, multi-grain, tomato-basil, and light. We also make salad rolls, hot dog and hamburger buns, brown and serves and English muffins. Quality is of the utmost importance in any product that we produce under any label. It can be said that we measure up to our name “Gold Medal” with all our products.

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