Let them eat cake: Grocer takes dessert offerings to new level with imports

Publix has struck a deal with a Canadian maker of premium cakes.


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La Rocca premium cakes are now available in Publix stores in Florida. Courtesy photo.
La Rocca premium cakes are now available in Publix stores in Florida. Courtesy photo.
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In lieu of Coffee Talk this week, we bring you Cake Talk.

Publix Super Markets Inc. has struck a deal that will see the Lakeland-based grocer import premium, handmade cakes from Canada. Specifically, cakes made by La Rocca Creative Cakes, a company that dates back to 1955, when it was founded in Naples, Italy. In 1986, the La Rocca family expanded across the pond and opened a facility in Richmond Hill, a suburb of Toronto.

 

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