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Company Background
Latin Flavors is a Hispanic manufacturer of frozen foods sold throughout the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean headquartered in Miami, FL. The primary product lines are pastries and breads formulated from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and South American flavors and recipies.

Latin Flavors traces is heritage back to Cuba, when in 1921 Valentin Garcia, of Spanish decent, and his brothers started their first bakery. With a mission of quality and value, the Garcia brothers grew steadily, and in 1956 inaugurated a new state-of-the-art facility and renamed the bakery La Gran Via in Havana, Cuba. La Gran Via continued to grow very rapidly, establishing a reputation as the best bakery in Cuba until the political differences in 1960 forced the family to abandon the business.

Manufacturing
Latin Flavors produces a wide variety of pastries including Argentinean empanadas, Cuban pastries, Dominican pastries, Jamaican patties, Puerto Rican pastries, and breads from South America and the Caribbean.

Latin Flavors' distribution is done through independent and national wholesale distributors. Latin Flavors also does custom manufacturing, currently private-labeling for several large national companies.

Manufacturing at the plant is overseen by USDA and FDA while adhering to Six Sigma manufacturing practices and methodologies. Latin Flavors mission revolves around product quality and value, where Quality is in terms of flavor, appearance, and consistency.

Company News
Latin Flavors recently was selected to support the friendly wager between the senators from Florida and Pensylvania following the 2008 MLB World Series by providing Cuban pastries