History
From humble beginnings to an ingredient empire.
Over the last forty years, we’ve been guided by the same philosophy: the customer comes first. From the day that Fred Brown Sr. purchased his first company, to today under the leadership of his son, we’ve always treated our clients and vendors like a part of our family.
Fred Brown Sr. purchases International Distributing
We become a national starch distributor.
Our Kansas City, MO office opens.
Expand our vegetable oil offerings.
We purchase Prairie Street Liquid plant and form International Sweeteners.
Purchase the Coca Cola plant on Virginia Street in St. Louis, MO.
Our Virginia Street plant starts packaging oil.
We start packing granulated and powdered sugar.
International Distributing becomes International Food Products Company (IFPC).
International Sweeteners merges with IFPC.
We sell over 200 million pounds of sugar.
We purchase Dairy House Ingredient Systems.
Dairy House begins selling stabilizers.
Named Distributor of Distinction for Outstanding Sales of specialty starches.
Clayton Brown becomes CEO.
Add flour to our growing list of ingredient offerings.
Begin selling food-grade chemicals.
IFPC and Dairy House announce merger.
Complete construction on the Aviator distribution center, production and quality assurance facility.
As passionate today as
we were in 1974.
