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Metropolitan Baking Co., Hamtramck, Mich., began business delivering fresh bread to customers, and fresh delivery is still a large part of the operation. However, the Detroit area company’s frozen distribution is growing and becoming a greater portion of its business.
February 17, 2026
Baking & Snack Editor Charlotte Atchley speaks with George Kordas, president of Metropolitan Baking Company, about the new production line and how it has grown the company.
November 20, 2025
New state-of-the-art equipment, new shipping docs and a conveyorized high-speed line for fresh buns and rolls are some of the updates Metropolitan Baking Company made as part of their major expansion.
A long-standing Detroit-area bakery known for its hot dog buns has expanded, boosting its production capacity and hiring 25 more workers.
November 19, 2025
Metropolitan Baking Co., one of Hamtramck’s oldest and most successful businesses, has completed a major expansion of its bakery, adding 37,000 square feet on its 20-acre property.
May 9, 2024
Metropolitan Baking Co. in Hamtramck is a bakery that would make automotive pioneer Henry Ford proud.
May 9, 2024
Metropolitan Baking Co. in Hamtramck is a bakery that would make automotive pioneer Henry Ford proud.
March 1, 2024
An age-old family bakery is finally expanding two years after setting the plan in motion.
November 9, 2023
Hamtramck’s Metropolitan Baking Co. plans major expansion – Published by The Detroit News
November 9, 2023
Metropolitan Baking Co. in Hamtramck Expands, Adding Employees – Published by DBusiness Magazine
October 20, 2023
At Metropolitan Bakery, there is much on the rise – Published by Hamtramck Review
October 17, 2023
October 17, 2023
An age-old family bakery is finally expanding two years after setting the plan in motion.
March 29, 2023
Even as consumers turned increasingly to value options in the bread category over the past year, bakers have stepped up their development efforts around a wide range of value-added bread varieties.
June 7, 2022
Metropolitan Baking Co., a Hamtramck-based bakery that supplies fresh and frozen bread products to restaurants, universities, institutions, stadiums, and retail establishments across the U.S., has recently expanded its operations to more than 110,000-square-feet on 20 acres of land.
June 14, 2022
Metropolitan Baking Co., a Hamtramck-based bakery that supplies fresh and frozen bread products to restaurants, universities, institutions, stadiums, and retail establishments across the U.S., has recently expanded its operations to more than 110,000-square-feet on 20 acres of land.
November 12, 2019
Alum’s bread, like his family business, rises steadily – Published by Doug McPherson
October 21, 2016
After graduating from the University of Colorado in 2005 with a business degree, George Kordas began working for Metropolitan Baking Co., a third-generation, wholesale baking company owned by his family.
June 2013
All in the family – father and son carry on Detroit baking tradition – By Rick Asher
July 19, 2012
One of the reasons why coney dogs taste so good in Detroit has nothing to do with chili or hot dogs. It’s all about the Buns says “Coney Island Detroit”.
December 21, 2011
Kordas’ Metropolitan Baking Company – Published by “Retail Merchandiser”
April 7, 1986
Bakery seeks larger slice of bread market – Published by “Crains Detroit Business”
With little fanfare, Metropolitan Baking Co. keeps growing – Published by “The Hamtramack Review”