Portfolio · 07 / 08
Ostmark
Wholesale bread, viennoiserie, and pastry for western Pennsylvania.
Ostmark operates a production bakery in Pittsburgh and supplies bread, viennoiserie, and pastry to roughly two hundred restaurants, hotels, and grocers within a two-hour drive. The product list is short and disciplined: six breads, four viennoiserie, three pastry items, rotated by season.
The bakery runs seven nights a week. Mixing begins at nine in the evening, the first ovens load at one in the morning, and routes leave the building between four and five. The team has hired carefully, paid down its original debt, and grown roughly fifteen percent a year for nine years.
Ostmark has been part of the Barlow portfolio since 2016. It is the smallest business in the portfolio by revenue and one of the most consistent.
Product
From the Ostmark portfolio file.
By the numbers
- Wholesale accounts
- 204
- Nights baking / week
- 7
- Annual growth
- ≈15%
From the file
“Six breads, four viennoiserie, three pastry items, rotated by season.”
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