Pure's Food Specialties, LLC.
Chris L. has extensive experience in the food production industry, currently serving as Chief Operating Officer and previously as Vice President of Operations at Pure's Food Specialties, LLC since November 2017. Prior to this role, Chris held the position of Division Vice President of Bakery Operations at ARYZTA from September 2014 to September 2017, and Bakery Director/Plant Manager at Pennant Foods/Otis Spunkmeyer from 2003 to 2014. Early career experience includes serving as Operations Manager at LaFrancaise Bakery from 1998 to 2003. Chris manages a team of 6 salaried employees and 400 hourly employees, focusing on the achievement of food production quality, safety, and performance KPIs.
Pure's Food Specialties, LLC.
Pure’s Food Specialties was founded in 1964 as a small family-owned cookie manufacturing operation in Broadview, IL (10 miles west of Chicago). Five Decades and three expansions later, Pure’s has grown into one of the leading cookie manufacturing companies in the industry with a customer list that includes many of the largest retailers, wholesalers, and CPG companies in the United States. At Pure’s we’ve developed a unique culture where we make it our mission each day to maintain the speed, flexibility, and responsiveness of a small neighborhood bakery, even as we add some of the largest production lines in the industry.