Companion In the Media

International Symposium on Bread | Companion Baking

National distributor of breads and pastries, Companion Baking, is now providing bread at all Wally’s locations in Missouri and Illinois.

International Symposium on Bread | Companion Baking

Companion founder, Josh Allen, discusses the challenges of scaling up the business, and finding the key to regaining profitability in the most unlikely of places – the trash bin.

Changing Our Culture by Watching our Waste | Josh Allen | TEDxStLouis

Everything about Companion Baking founder, Josh Allen’s, baking company changed when they started measuring and managing their trash. Watch his TEDx talk to see how the company regained control of profits and sustainability in the most unlikely of places.

Companion Baking Now Providing Bread For Chicken N Pickle Restaurants

Companion Baking, a St. Louis-based distributor of breads and pastries that services restaurants and retail chains across the Midwest in addition to running a café, has announced that it is now providing bread for all six Chicken N Pickle locations (as well as six new locations on the way in 2023).

One Day With Companion

On any normal workday at craft bread wholesaler Companion in St. Louis, if they don’t hear any bells, “that’s not a good day.” There’s an important piece of equipment affixed to a center post of this bustling bakery operation where thousands of pieces of bread dough are flowing through the production lines every day with the precision of apolished symphony orchestra.

From Avocation To Vocation; How I Turned My Hobby Into A Career

Amanda currently serves as a Quality Assurance Manager at Companion Baking. She graduated from Illinois State University in 2015 with bachelor’s degrees in music performance and nutrition. After a few years of working for State Farm, she felt a pull towards baking…

Bread Bakers, Storytellers | With a culture of ‘Yes,’ Companion Baking lives for its customers’ narratives.

At an intersection where improv meets architecture is a place for baking — and breaking — bread. That place is St. Louis-based Companion Baking, where the bakery is regaling consumers through the bread it produces.

Sauce Magazine article featuring Suman Shekar of Companion Baking

What I Do: Suman Shekar of Companion Bakery

Suman Shekar has a sharp eye for detail. Even while chatting at Companion’s West St. Louis Campus, part of her attention is focused on the bustling bakery visible through the cafe’s glass walls, watching for any hiccup. Her role overseeing process improvements and quality assurance combines her lifelong passion for cooking with her inclination for order and efficiency.

Rolling With The Punches

Whether it be a smaller operation
or one of the country’s biggest bakery
manufacturers, bread producers
are feeling the weight of challenges impacting their operations. Acclimating to the unexpected is the new normal, and adapt post-pandemic, the ability to adapt quickly to new practices, resources and solutions makes all the difference.

The Best Tools for Making Bagels at Home, According to Pros

Slightly crisp on the outside, tender and chewy on the inside, a well-made bagel is a masterpiece of textures and flavors. Professional bakers invest a great deal of time and energy in their bagel-making processes to achieve the best-possible rings of glossy, spongy bread.