From the streets of Palermo to becoming New England's largest fresh bread distribution company, the LaMarca journey is built on family values, hard work, and a promise to deliver freshness every day.
The LaMarca family immigrated to Boston with the dream of continuing their Old World family business in a new land filled with opportunity.
They opened a bakery on Hanover Street in Boston's North End and expanded their fresh delivery model beyond homes to local stores. The commitment remained the same: dependable service, quality products, and bread delivered fresh every day.
As sub shops and sandwich businesses began to thrive, the demand for dependable bread delivery increased significantly.
The LaMarca family made a pivotal decision to focus exclusively on delivery. Rather than splitting attention between baking and logistics, they dedicated themselves to becoming experts in distribution, ensuring reliability, consistency, and exceptional service for a growing customer base.
The third generation of the LaMarca family accelerated the company's growth by partnering with many outstanding specialty bread bakers.
This expansion transformed the business from a focused delivery operation into a comprehensive bakery distribution partner. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner offerings grew to include pastries, artisan breads, sandwich rolls, and specialty selections for restaurants, hotels, hospitals, colleges, and regional and national restaurant chains.
Now led by the fourth generation, LaMarca & Sons has evolved into New England's largest fresh bread distribution company.
Operating from a central depot in Malden, Massachusetts, and supported by a fleet of over 75 delivery trucks, the company uses a refined hub-and-spoke distribution model to provide unmatched efficiency, product variety, and freshness.
With more than 100 years of experience and strong partnerships across the baking industry, LaMarca continues to deliver on its original promise: high-quality bakery products, delivered fresh and on time, every time.
More than a century of dedication has gone into building the perfect system for delivering the widest selection of quality bread products. Our mission is simple: to provide the freshest, highest-quality bakery products to every customer with dependable service and on-time delivery they can count on.