"Our company was founded on the simple premise of
providing
honest products and excellent service." John Crow
Building the Best Pizzaware, Bakeware and Cookware
Commitment to Engineering for Excellence: Our products are engineered for performance and built to last. If something doesn’t work, we will fix it or we won’t
sell it.
Customer-based innovation: We listen to our customers, and develop
our products according to their needs and standards.
Creating the foundation of better life through better food: Food cooked
in our pans will retain the integrity of the chef’s intentions. Our pans
add no toxins, chemicals or other foreign substances. Lloyd Industries' pans make
better food.
Commitment to Our Customers
Customer Service: Our goal is to meet or exceed every customer’s expectations through
careful listening, attention to detail, sensitivity to needs and fulfillment of promises made. Our
best ambassadors are our current customers.
Ongoing Innovation: We will always seek to improve our products and services through
evaluation and continuous improvement methods. Ideas and innovations are proactively
solicited from all our stakeholders, customers to engineers.
Product Value: Lloyd Pans are manufactured to meet the demands of service in commercial
conditions. We strive to offer only the safest, most environmentally friendly, most useful and
most reliable pans available. We will never compromise on quality or value to our customers.
LLOYD CROW
A lifelong entrepreneur, Lloyd Crow instilled in his grandson, John, the importance of continual improvement - for any business. Lloyd Crow started out working on his father's farm near Alma, Nebraska. When he was married in 1915, his father presented them with a team of Clydesdale horses as a wedding gift. Lloyd saw a "new business opportunity." With his new team of Clydesdales he began hauling bricks for road building, and later telephone poles. Spotting yet another opportunity, he became adept at installing and wiring these telephone poles. After great success with this, Lloyd took on a new challenge. He bought some land and began farming. In the 1940's, he was the number-one corn grower in Nebraska. In 1950, the government bought his farm for a reservoir, and Lloyd headed to California, where he built and ran two service stations until he retired at the age of 72.
Lloyd truly was an entrepreneur who believed in hard-work. He was a visionary who saw solutions to problems and had the courage to act on them. Lloyd Crow's commitment to adaptability and constant improvement was passed on to his grandson, John Crow.
In 1986, Lloyd Industries founder John Crow named his business after his grandfather, Lloyd Crow. John started becoming involved in the pizza-pan business while he was working as an independent manufacturer's representative in San Diego. He was selling mechanical components when he ran across a company called Paul E. Eyraud Co., an Ontario, California-based maker of pizza and cake pans. In 1989, John decided to start buying pizza pans from Eyraud Co. to sell to other companies.
In the mid-nineties, John added his son, Rob, as a partner and Lloyd Industries bought the pizza-pan portion of Eyraud's business. Lloyd Industries moved to Spokane, Washington where it was less expensive to operate the business and a great place to raise families.
Lloyd Industries located their manufacturing plant at 2825 N. Hogan, Spokane, Washington where the production lines for the precision-engineered pizza equipment are in full operation. The warehouse and shipping department goals are to keep the products moving. The Company goals are to sell pizza pans to the top 100 pizza franchisers in the U.S. and then move to the global market with the help of the Internet.
Rob Crow says that the company sells to approximately 25 of the top franchisers in addition to about 350 pizza companies that operate in the vicinity of 6000 stores. "We have customers in Canada, Mexico and Europe. But we know that to continue our success we must provide the best products and new solutions to help our customers grow."
Lloyd Industries is now located in the Spokane Industrial Park in Spokane Valley where warehouse and manufacturing companies take advantage of transportation and infrastructure optimized locations. The company has focused on "lean manufacturing" practices saving costs and embracing environmental concerns. John Crow says, "In our efforts to be lean, we find ourselves characterized today as being green!"
John Crow says that he loves working with people in the food industry. "I think of hamburgers as food, but I think of pizza as entertainment. There seems to be more of a party atmosphere in the pizza industry." All of our employees have captured the "Lloyd" spirit that my grandfather demonstrated: Work hard, provide solutions to your customer's problems and have fun.
We sell solutions - not just products!
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