fgf brands
fgf brands is a commercial bakery located in Concord, Ontario, on the fringe of Toronto.
While the business is only three-years-old, the two active owner-partners have between them more than 60 years of experience producing premium bakery and grocery products for conventional North American supermarkets and large discount merchandisers.
We are recognized and respected for producing great tasting, low-cost baked goods as our broad retail and foodservice customer base will attest. As many of the wholesome, healthier-for-you muffins, brownies and ethnic flatbreads that we make are sold as store brands (premium private label) in North America, we are unable to reveal the stores or locations where the bulk of our products are available.
As a statement of our commitment to produce authentic ethnic flatbreads, we undertook to build the world’s first continuous commercial tandoor oven to accurately replicate the taste, flavor and texture of restaurant-made naan.
Committing funds to the project, we applied the talents of engineers, product developers, food scientists and marketing wizards to blueprint, build and have operating within one year an internationally patented, continuous commercial tandoor oven. By the 365th day, we were up, operating, and baking 1 million hand-stretched, all-natural, preservative-free, trans fat-free naan a week!
In addition to our line of Fabulous Flats™ authentic ethnic flatbreads (varieties include Indian Naan, Moroccan Flatbread, Breakfast Pita, Persian Snowshoe Bread, Armenian Lavash, Silkroute Chinese Flatbread, Gordita, Focaccia, and Focaccia Buns), which are available in supermarkets, specialty gourmet stores and mass merchandisers in Canada and the U.S., our other core products include:
+ 135 unique muffins, spanning different nutritional categories: we produce Whole-Grain Muffins, Healthier-for-you “Functional Muffins” (muffins with a purpose – these have high nutritional density AND great taste) and unique, sweet-tooth-satisfying Indulgent Muffins.
+ Miniature brownies called Thingamabobs ™ Fudgy Brownie Bits, which contain no hydrogenated oil, and NO Trans Fats. These certified Kosher confections are available in four formats:
- Original (made with rich-tasting, Belgian-style chocolate)
- Thingamabobs ™ on a chocolate chip cookie. We invented a method to fuse a fudgy brownie to a miniature gourmet chocolate chip cookie. There are no trans fats in the brownie and none in the cookie.
- Thingamabobs ™ on a crunchy peanut butter cookie. We use non-hydrogenated peanut butter, so neither part of this confection – top or bottom – has trans fats.
- Thingamabobs ™ filled with a rich, runny caramel center. We inject each miniature brownie with runny caramel; the result is an oozy, delicious pop-in-your-mouth treat.
Industry observers have started to call fgf brands “The Ben and Jerry’s of bakery,” as our products are wholesome, fun, made with fresh ingredients and contain no unnecessary chemicals or shelf-extenders.
As hydrogenated oil has never been permitted in our plant, our baked goods have NO trans fats. So unlike other bakeries, we didn’t have to spend a year reworking tired old formulas to remove trans fats to satisfy new government labeling rules; we never had them in our baked goods to begin with.
What’s more, our plant, certified Kosher, has just received the “Gold” or “Excellent,” certification from third-party industry appraiser Silliker Labs.
