Dufour Pastry Kitchens, Inc.
Winner of 20 SoFi awards over its 36 years, Bronx-based Dufour Pastry Kitchens is the leader in frozen, all-butter puff pastry in the natural retail channel. It’s artisanally made with just 5 pantry ingredients and an over 50% butter to flour ratio. Dufour also produces frozen hand-made hors d’oeuvres and hand-crafted, ready-to-bake tart shells (foodservice only) for chefs who seek a homemade result. Founders Judi Arnold and Carla Krasner looked to enter a burgeoning specialty food world when a caterer asked if they’d make puff pastry hors d’oeuvres for her events. Their surprise to learn caterers and chefs don’t make everything in-house was the “aha” moment that led them to develop labor-saving pastry products of a quality that top chefs can represent as their own. New products answering customer needs include a plant-based pastry dough and time saving pre-sheeted small sizes. Still women owned, Dufour continues to further creativity in both the chef’s and the home kitchen.
This business is at least 51% owned, controlled, and actively managed by:
- Woman/Women
Contacts
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Erica Gruen
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Alex Guillen
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Eve Perchanok
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Lydia Kao
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Will Starrs
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Cathy Frankel
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Judith Arnold
CEO -
Aida Puente
Accounts Payable -
Mauricio Villarreal
Operations Manager -
Sylvie Guillen
Purchasing Manager -
Carla Krasner
Vice President -
Leonor Gonzalez
sofi contact -
Lindsey Dealy
National Sales Director