Sister Schubert’s Homemade Rolls produces frozen, partially baked yeast rolls and related products for the retail and food service markets. The company bakes more than 500 million rolls annually. Its products are distributed nationally and are available at a wide range of grocery chains as well as through the SisterSchuberts.com Web site.
The company was founded in Troy, Alabama, by Patricia “Sister Schubert” Barnes in 1991. In 2000, she sold the company to Lancaster Colony Corporation, retaining a leadership role.
Today, Sister Schubert’s Homemade Rolls is a subsidiary of T. Marzetti Company, Lancaster Colony’s specialty foods division.
Sister Schubert’s produces 12 varieties of rolls at three bakeries:
Luverne, Alabama
Company Headquarters
100 Crenshaw Pkwy, Luverne, AL 36049
80,000 square feet.
Employs 290
Produces 9 varieties of rolls.
Capacity more than 1.3 million rolls daily.
Saraland, Alabama
100 Jacintoport Blvd, Saraland, AL 36571
66,000 square feet.
Employs 70.
Produces 11 varieties of rolls.
Capacity more than 500 thousand rolls daily.
Horse Cave, Kentucky
900 Top Quality Drive, Horse Caves, KY 42749
105,000 square feet
Employs 80.
Produces 5 varieties of rolls.
Capacity more than 1.4 million rolls daily.
About T. Marzetti Company
T. Marzetti Company is a leading manufacturer of specialty foods. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, the company produces a wide range of dips, dressings, frozen breads and other specialty foods found on the dinner tables of millions of consumers as well as in well-known restaurant chains across the country.
T. Marzetti Co. began in 1896, when recent Italian immigrant Teresa Marzetti moved to Columbus, Ohio, and opened a restaurant. She set the tone for the company that would bear her name with a short notation on a scrap of paper:
"We will start a new place and serve good food. At a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but we will serve good food."
Over the years, Marzetti's grew to become a four-star restaurant and one of the finest dining experiences in the Midwest. Customers particularly enjoyed its homemade salad dressings and often requested bottles to take home.
By 1955, the upstairs kitchen of the restaurant became a full-scale factory, and the Marzetti brand of salad dressings appeared on the shelves of grocery stores throughout Ohio and, later, the nation.
Lancaster Colony Corporation purchased the company in 1969. The restaurant closed three years later after Teresa Marzetti's death.
Today, Marzetti has plants across the United States that produce an expanded family of quality food products. Each reflects Teresa Marzetti's original, handwritten pledge of excellence and good food.
T. Marzetti Co. brands include Marzetti’s salad dressings, veggie and fruit dips, Cardini's dressings, Chatham Village croutons, Girard's dressings, Inn Maid egg noodles, Jack Daniels® mustard, New York Brand frozen garlic breads, Mamma Bella frozen garlic breads, Pfeiffer dressings, Reames frozen egg noodles and pastas, Romanoff caviar and Sister Schubert’s Homemade Rolls.
About Lancaster Colony Corporation
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, the Lancaster Colony Corporation is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of consumer products focusing primarily on specialty foods for the retail and food service markets. Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ Exchange under the ticker symbol LANC.
The corporation was founded in 1961, when Ohio entrepreneur John B. Gerlach decided to consolidate small glass and related businesses under a central holding company he called Lancaster Colony Corporation. Two years later, the Board of Directors initiated a strategy to reward shareholders through annual dividend increases. Lancaster Colony has paid consecutive quarterly dividends since 1963.
Lancaster Colony went public in 1969. That year also saw the company enter the specialty foods business with the purchase of the T. Marzetti Company. Since then, Lancaster Colony has added numerous other specialty food brands to its T. Marzetti division. These include the Quality Bakery Company (1977), New York Frozen Foods and Frozen Specialty Bakers (1978), Inn Maid Products (1981), Pfeiffer salad dressings (1983), Girard’s Fine Foods (1991), Romanoff International (1993), Cardini salad dressings (1996), Chatham Village Croutons (1997), Sister Schubert’s Homemade Rolls Inc. (2000), Mamma Bella Foods (2001), Warren Frozen Foods Inc. (2003) and the Marshall Biscuit Company (2007).
