The Gold Medal “Legs of Support”

Gold Medal’s new ordering Technology:

As the store brand bakery program leader, Gold Medal Bakery has been working for years to build a customized sales-ordering tool for our customers.

Gold Medal's revolutionary online Order Management Tool (OMT) is a computerized ordering program that incorporates promotional activity, seasonal sales plans, displays, holiday calendars, sales trends, and all other market specific indicators to generate an optimized order for your store. OMT will generate a smart order based on scan sales proportionate to store performance, and plans your future orders. The orders will be retail specific and product specific. OMT brings the retail sales history right to your fingertips, which will enable the user to make educated decisions on building sales and recognizing opportunities. OMT eliminates the need to maintain a control book. While incorporating and combining the basic business practices of yesterday, with the ongoing demands of today’s industry. Increased varieties and more diverse demographics make it necessary to combine past sales performance with the trends and opportunities of today. The information technology initiative that Gold Medal Bakery has aggressively invested in over the last few years has brought more synergies to our entire organization. OMT integrates with SAP , thereby, interacting with our other departments to serve our customers in the most efficient manner. Gold Medal Bakery associates are able to work seamlessly within our organization, to make quality and consistency an invisible extension of our service.

Shelf Management

Gold Medal Bakery has been a long-time pioneer in shelf management. Our proprietary software program "JDA" has been developed over many years of operational experience and hard work. The program has been successfully calculating proper rack space for our customers throughout the New England & Metro New York regions. The philosophy on shelf management is to make our customers' bakery program efficient and most profitable. Gold Medal Bakery’s major investment is in private label, YOUR LABEL! The brand equity you receive only benefits you, the customer. We work hard in shelf management to make sure the Bakery Category is a profit center for each store. 

Our entire space management department is available to serve your needs and to ensure maximum efficiency and profitability in your bakery department.

Best Practices:

Our sales team, large & diverse, are trained to work the bakery racks. Shelf management, store trainings, grand openings, order counseling and marketing support are all value-added services they provide. Our sales professionals pride themselves on consistent, dependable and continuous service.

Our people are the building blocks of our successful bakery program. They are trained to care about bakery related issues no matter how small or large. You will get the same friendly service from our sales staff in Bangor Maine, Bristol, Connecticut or Brick, New Jersey. 

Gold Medal Bakery’s three Legs of Service; Technology, Shelf Management & Operational Excellence give the retailer all the tools needed to operate a successful and profitable bakery program. Gold Medal Bakery's Sales Team, services your products from bakery shelves into the shopping carriage, and to your customers' kitchen. Our professional staff are committed to this business and we will be happy to serve those who afford us this opportunity.