Michigan Born.
Michigan Bread.

Our Story

Cole's Beginnings
1943
Cole's Beginnings

Caroll L. Cole founded Cole's in 1943 in Muskegon, a quaint town in West Michigan where tulips were made famous.

Cole's Retail Bakery
1963
Cole's Retail Bakery

We opened our first retail bakery shop in Muskegon, Michigan and offered over 300 varieties of donuts and specialty cakes.

Cole's First Frozen Garlic Bread
1973
Cole's First Frozen Garlic Bread

Wes Devon took the helm of Cole's in 1973 and made the pivotal decision to invent and introduce the first frozen garlic bread to grocers in the mid-west.

Cole's Plant with 9 Story Freezer
1983
Cole's Plant with 9 Story Freezer

In ‘83, we built an enormous nine-story freezer to help meet the growing demand for our frozen garlic bread.

First Freezer-to-Table Garlic Bread - No Thawing
2003
First Freezer-to-Table Garlic Bread - No Thawing

Continuing our heritage of innovation, we introduced the first freezer-to-table garlic bread. For the first time ever, garlic bread was ready in only 10 minutes.

World's Longest Garlic Bread
2006
World's Longest Garlic Bread

The Cole's team of bakers produced a 152" loaf of garlic bread and set a Guinness Book World Record. Now that’s a lot of bread!

Continued Innovation: Breadsticks With a Twist!
2010
Continued Innovation: Breadsticks With a Twist!

Always on the edge of innovation, we took our now-famous garlic bread sticks and gave them a twist. Turns out, the new twist holds the garlic butter topping even better.

Celebrating 75 Years of Baking Goodness
2018
Celebrating 75 Years of Baking Goodness

Since the beginning, we've been innovating and baking up great products that our founder would be proud of! Let's see what rises in the next 75.