Formed in March of 2010, CSM Bakery Products North America is the result of merging the legacy companies of H.C. Brill Company with Best Brands after H.C. Brill's parent company CSM acquired Best Brands. With a 125-year history of manufacturing the finest baking ingredients and products in the industry, the legacy companies provide a solid foundation for the newly formed CSM Bakery Products. The new company captures all of our great hero brands and capabilities.
Brill, a leading name in the bakery industry for more than 80 years, was founded in Chicago by Harry Brill. Launching Brill's first ready-to-use icing in 1978, Brill provides quality icings and glazes to in-story bakery and foodservice customers nationwide. The latest addition of frozen ready-to-use cakes and cake layers are an example of the innovative solutions that make Brill a number-one choice of bakery customers.
Best Brands began in 1971 as a distributor of quality ingredients and supplies and began manufacturing a quality line of fillings, icings, mixes and bases in 1975, due to the inability to source the caliber of products that would meet high standards. Frozen doughs and batters were added in 1991. Later, additional lamination and auto-bake lines were installed to better meet the needs of our customers.
In 1914, Austrian immi¬grant Louis Karp founded Karp's in Chicago offering ingredi¬ents to the bakery and confectionery industries. Karp's has been an innovative leader in the bakery ingredient business since the introduction of their signature Scoop-N-Bake® Muffin Batters. The Karp's brand continues to signify quality products in a convenient format with additional products such as Pan-N-Bake® breakfast rolls along with a full line of cookie dough pucks.
The Orth brand has been a fixture in baking since it was founded on the Bark River in Sullivan, Wisconsin, by 37-year-old German immigrant Phillip Orth in 1892. Orth bakery mixes and full line of Thaw-N-Bake® rolls, focaccia and flat breads continue to lead the industry.
Brothers Charles and Frederick Henry founded Henry & Henry, one of the leading manufacturers of quality fruit and crème fillings, icings, glazes and other specialty products for the baking industry in North America, in 1899. Originally headquartered in Buffalo, New York, Henry & Henry is also a major supplier to the ice cream industry producing quality fudges, syrups, variegates and ice cream bases.
Multifoods Bakery Products has a 100+ year heritage and broad product offering. Multifoods is know for their widely-popular muffins and baking mixes.
Telco Food Products is one of the leading manufacturers of retail-ready brownies, ring and loaf cakes with unique packaging concepts, to round out our bakery product offerings.
CSM acquired Henry & Henry in 1994, Orth in 1996 and Karp's in 1997. In 1999, CSM consolidated Karp's and Orth into a company called Baker & Baker. Henry & Henry also consolidated into Baker & Baker in 2002. CSM did not acquire H.C. Brill until 2003 and soon after, in 2005, all of the brands under Baker & Baker merged into H.C. Brill. Best Brands acquired Multifoods Bakery Products in 2005 and Telco Food Products in 2006. CSM
Today, the family of brands under CSM Bakery Products includes Brill, Best Brands, Telco, Henry & Henry, Fantasia, Karp's, and Orth.