Denver, CO – Steven Roberts Original Desserts and Ticklebelly Desserts announce the purchase of a 380,000 square foot facility at I-70 and Tower Road in Aurora, Colorado, that allows them to consolidate their Colorado bakeries, warehouse, and corporate headquarters under one roof, to increase manufacturing and shipping capacity of their innovative, signature desserts, and to add up to 800 new jobs to the area over the next three years. The facility will open mid-2013. Currently, Steven Roberts Original Desserts operates two bakeries and one warehouse in Colorado as well as a bakery in Pembroke, North Carolina. The Pembroke bakery will remain open. Recently named Inc. Hire Power’s 27th largest job growth creator in the nation with 245% job growth (592 jobs) over the past three years, Steven Roberts Original Desserts and Ticklebelly Desserts will invest millions of dollars in custom upgrades to the facility, positioning them for continued future growth. The company doesn’t plan any changes to existing jobs.
“Our sustained growth allowed us to purchase this facility and we plan to invest millions of dollars renovating the building to continue to grow our companies and produce our innovative, award-winning desserts,” stated Charles Kosmont, Chairman of Steven Roberts Original Desserts and Ticklebelly Desserts. “With our bakery in Pembroke, North Carolina, this new facility gives us close to 520,000 square feet of manufacturing, warehouse, and office space,” Kosmont added.
“We work with some of the biggest names in the food industry to create and produce unique, cutting-edge desserts for our customers, and we currently supply more than 25,000 restaurants, theatres, and hotels with innovative desserts,” explained Steven Fabos, Chief Executive Officer of Steven Roberts Original Desserts and Ticklebelly Desserts. “We’re known throughout the industry for our speed to market and our scalability, and we can quickly create innovative dessert solutions for customers with one or thousands of locations. If you’ve eaten a dessert in a restaurant, chances are you’ve eaten a Steven Roberts Original Desserts creation,” added Fabos.
Steven Roberts Original Desserts develops and produces a broad line of innovative, premium frozen desserts, selling them directly to restaurants, hotels, theaters, and grocery stores. Some of the best-known brands in the United States rely on Steven Roberts Original Desserts. A dedication to research and innovation has won Steven Roberts Original Desserts numerous industry awards for superior service, high quality products, and exceptional new product development. Steven Roberts Original Desserts takes pride in its role as a partner to its clients and continually sets new standards in quality, creativity, and customer service. Founded in 1995, Steven Roberts Original Desserts, LLC, is a privately held, Denver-based company owned by Charles Kosmont and Steven Fabos. Steven Roberts Original Desserts has been designated a certified minority supplier by the Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Council. For more information, please visit http://www.originaldesserts.com.
Ticklebelly Desserts leads the industry with innovative, first-to-market gourmet creations for the consumer marketplace including dessert shots, cake pops, cakebabies™, and dessert minis. Ticklebelly Desserts is a 2011 recipient of Prepared Foods’ Excellence In Innovation Award for its Brownie Pops and Blondie Pops. Ticklebelly also bakes a line of individually packaged gourmet cupcakes, decadent molten cakes, silky cheesecakes, and delectable infused cakes. Headquartered in innovation-inspiring Denver, CO, Ticklebelly was founded in 2007 to fill a void in the dessert industry. Ticklebelly’s dessert innovations are available nationwide in the in-store bakery section of select grocery stores including select Kroger and Target locations. To share the Ticklebelly experience and find out where on earth we came up with the Ticklebelly name, please visit us at http://www.ticklebellydesserts.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Ticklebelly, and @TicklebellyDZRT on Twitter.
Source: Ticklebelly Desserts
