ABOUT US
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The Sukie’s
Bread Company® story traces its roots to a small city south of Roseau in Dominica,
where Florie Peters, one of the founders, was born in 1901. Florie Peters
believed that greater opportunities started with hard work and flour; and, in 1945,
the family bakery at 30 Victoria
Street was born.
Florie Peters, and her husband “ Papa Ceewoe,” as he was called, were the
company’s founders and were born in Newtown,
Dominica.
During these early years, going to school was an option but working hard trying
to start a successful business was not an option. With a limited elementary education, they
pursued a career in business instead. Their business background was in raising
cattle, as well as bakery enterprises. They had no children and adopted Herbert
“Sukie” Winston as their own while he was still a young boy. Herbert endure the
tough life of baking, transporting the bread on his head and frame of his
bicycle from as far north as Mahaut to as far south as Point Mitchell and would
still make it to school for 8am.
The Peters
family found a receptive audience for the authentic, West Indian influence in
baked goods, and soon the Sukie’s Bread Company story began. For years,
the family produced a variety of fine baked goods in their Newtown community, and dreamed of expanding
the business island wide.
The Sukie’s Bread Company® concept
The success of the Sukie’s Bread Company® concept lies in tried and true
recipes handed down through generations of our biggest critics -- ourselves.
Since
that time, the Sukie’s Bread Company ® concept has grown immensely with thirty
five retail operations throughout Dominica, and demand for the Sukie’s
Bread Company® delicacies are growing fast.
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