Love & Quiches Gourmet Receives Three Awards; Pursues SQF Certification
July 24, 2014 | 3 min to read
NEW YORK — Love & Quiches Gourmet® (www.loveandquiches.com), one of the nation’s leading dessert and quiche manufacturers, is pleased to announce that it has won three awards. These accolades recognize its contributions to the industry and ongoing commitment to growth and excellence in manufacturing.
About the honors
Several groups have acknowledged the company’s accomplishments. Among them is the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), which bestowed Love & Quiches with a "Small Business Exporter of the Year" award at its 39th Annual Conference in Washington, DC in April. Love & Quiches was also the 2014 recipient of a prestigious "Global Trade Award," from the National Foreign Trade Council, in honor of its significant role in the growth of international trade in the New York metropolitan region.
"Over the past year, we've expanded our global reach and programs are in place to take our business even further later this year," says Andy Axelrod, CEO of Love & Quiches. "International distribution is a core part of our business model and something that we work hard at excelling in."
While the global market is growing for the firm, Love & Quiches continues to maintain and grow its regional ties. As such, the Long Island Business News awarded the Freeport, Long Island based firm with its "Corporate Citizenship – The Business of Giving" honor. The award highlights the firm’s economic and social contributions to the community.
Next Leveling
Love & Quiches is not content to bask in its recent accomplishments, however. "We always strive to take our business to the next level," adds Axelrod. "We are constantly evolving to meet — and exceed — our customer's needs."
As part of that initiative, Love & Quiches Gourmet has begun pursuing a Level 2 "Safe Quality Food" (SQF) certification, which designates companies that adhere to exemplary standards in food safety worldwide. Obtained through the SQF Institute, it provides consumers, retailers and service providers who purchase a company's products with verifiable proof and ongoing monitoring of its food safety practices. “This is important to us,” notes Al Mayden, Love & Quiches' vice president of operations. “This initiative involves a great deal of time, energy and effort. And it’s all worth it, because we at Love & Quiches are 100% dedicated to providing the best in food safety practices to our customers and their customers.”
About Love & Quiches Gourmet
Celebrating more than 40 successful years in business, Love & Quiches Gourmet provides baked-from-scratch desserts and gourmet quiches to every segment of the foodservice industry and food retailers worldwide. Headquartered in Freeport, New York and distributed throughout the U.S. and internationally, the company is committed to providing its customers with clean, nutritious products. It offers a multitude of trend-responsive product lines, including Sweet Singles® single serve desserts, authentic cheesecakes, layer cakes, quiches and Gourmet Grab & Go® individually wrapped snacks. Love & Quiches is a proud supporter of the Wounded Warriors program, which assists the fallen heroes of the U.S. military, as well as its Cakes for Kids® program, created to combat children’s hunger nationally.
Chairwoman and Founder Susan Axelrod recently authored a well-received business memoir, With Love and Quiches: A Long Island Housewife's Surprising Journey from Kitchen to Boardroom, detailing her entrepreneurial journey from suburban housewife to the head of a successful family owned and operated global enterprise.
Love & Quiches has been featured on MarketWatch Radio Network and in The New York Post, The Associated Press, TheStreet.com and Long Island Business Journal, as well as in several leading trade publications, including Food and Drink, Gourmet Retailer, Convenience Store News, NACS Magazine, and Food Business Review, among others.
To learn more about Love & Quiches, visit www.loveandquiches.com, follow them on:
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/LoveandQuiches) and LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/company/282602?trk=tyah) or visit Susan Axelrod’s popular blog – www.susanssweettalk.com.
Source: Love & Quiches Gourmet