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Thirty Years Of Providing Quality Bakery Products!

Our History

After serving as a coast guard for his country, Henry P. Wellborn (Sandy) started his career in the baking industry in 1972 in Dallas, Texas with a bakery supply company. After a couple of years, he was offered a position as the Branch Manager in Houston, Texas. After the company was sold in 1992, he decided to venture out and form his own company together with his partner, Wolfgang Rupertus. In January 1993, they founded Quality Bakery Products, Inc.

Our History

Wolfgang Rupertus introduced Henry P. Wellborn to the owner of his previous employer, Fritz Schäfer of Abel & Schäfer in Ronkonkoma, NY. The gentlemen decided to do a joint financial venture with the Abel & Schäfer Group, which made the company grow rapidly well into the early 2000s.

 

Our History

In the early years of the new millennium, the Abel & Schäfer Group made an offer to take over the left-over shares of the company, which Henry P. Wellborn and Wolfgang Rupertus accepted. Quality Bakery Products Inc. hired Mike Tills as the General Manager in 2003, due to his history and experience in the family-owned bakery supply business.

Our History

Mike Tills formed the company that Quality Bakery Products is today and stabilized the financial situation of the company. He confidently led the company through the COVID-19 pandemic and went into well-deserved retirement at the end of 2021.

Who We Are

Quality Bakery Products is proud to celebrate its 32th anniversary in 2025. The company, founded by Henry P. Wellborne and Wolfgang Rupertus in 1993, benefited from their experience in the baking industry from the very beginning. With the support of the German Abel + Schäfer Group, also a significant player in the European baking industry with generations of experience, the company was able to quickly establish and develop. The Abel + Schäfer Group took lead in the early years of the new millennium and the company continued to develop and specialize.

In a highly competitive environment, the company maintains 2 lines of business:

Quality Bakery

For semi-finished doughs, batters, shells and finished baked goods.

Quality Filling Factory

For sweet and savory liquid and semi-liquid products.

Our Mission

At Quality Bakery Products, we are dedicated to crafting premium baked goods, hand-made artisanal pies, decadent fillings, and artisanal icings that bring joy to every table. Through our commitment to exceptional ingredients, time-honored techniques, and sustainable practices, we deliver products that honor tradition while embracing innovation. We take pride in our signature hand-crafted pies, created with meticulous attention to detail and authentic recipes passed down through generations.

Our mission is to transform everyday moments into memorable experiences, one perfectly crafted bakery product at a time.

 

“Quality is in our Name; Artisan Workmanship is our Passion”

Our Core Values

OUR FOUNDATION

INTEGRITY: We conduct business with unwavering honesty and transparency. Our word is our bond, and we take responsibility for our actions, decisions, and commitments.

EXCELLENCE: We pursue the highest standards in everything we do. Mediocrity has no place in our organization as we continuously strive to exceed expectations and deliver superior results.

OUR PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS

COLLABORATION: We believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives working together toward common goals. We foster an environment where ideas flow freely, and teamwork is celebrated.

RESPECT: We treat everyone with dignity and fairness. We value the unique contributions, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our employees, customers, and partners.

ACCOUNTABILITY: We take ownership of our roles and responsibilities. We hold ourselves and each other to high standards and follow through on our commitments.

OUR APPROACH

INNOVATION: We embrace change and seek creative solutions to challenges. We encourage calculated risk-taking and view setbacks as opportunities to learn and grow.

CUSTOMER FOCUS: We are dedicated to understanding and anticipating our customers’ needs. Their success is our success, and we build lasting relationships through exceptional service.

SUSTAINABILITY: We make decisions with the long-term health of our business, communities, and environment in mind. We are committed to practices that ensure a prosperous future.

OUR IMPACT

COMMUNITY: We recognize our responsibility to positively contribute to the communities where we operate. We encourage volunteerism and support initiatives that create lasting positive change.

GROWTH MINDSET: We believe in continuous learning and development. We invest in our people and processes to ensure we’re always improving and evolving.

Quality

In most cases, quality is evaluated subjectively, because the demands on the products and services are diverse. We define quality by the fulfillment of the demands and expectations of our customers. Besides the quality of the products and services offered it is also conditions, distribution, and communication between the business partners.

Respect

Our greatest assets are our customers, who trust us with their related business, our suppliers, who deliver us constantly with our materials, our employees, which create our products to fulfill your orders. That is why we attach great importance to respect and appreciation in dealing with each other.

Teamwork

“If everyone moves forward together, then success will come naturally.” Henry Ford. It may sound trite, but nevertheless it remains true. Only in a team, where we perform interdependent tasks and work towards a common goal, we can be successful.

Creativity

The term comes from the Latin “creare” and means “to produce”. There are different approaches and countless answers to the question of a definition of creativity. We understand creativity as the motor of our company, the ability to create something that is novel and useful at the same time.

Innovation

Simply put, innovation is about successfully implementing a new idea and creating value for our customers. It could be a plan for an improved product or a service. Innovation always starts with a new idea. With the attitude of “Is-not-possible doesn’t exist” we think solution-oriented which means learning, searching, deciding, and acting purposefully and consistently.