American International Foods - A Leading Food Ingredient Supplier
Our Story
American International Foods, Inc. was founded in 1999, born from the need for an innovative ingredient supplier that produced exceptional value for its customers and their operations while fostering mutually beneficial relationships built on reliability, efficiency, and effective communication.
AIFI laid its roots in West Michigan and has since grown and expanded its presence to include service across the United States. Over the years, we have steadily expanded our product portfolio and warehouse network, adding ingredients and distribution centers to meet the evolving needs of our customers. Our relentless pursuit of excellence led us to establish strong relationships with trusted suppliers across the globe, ensuring a consistent supply of premium ingredients that meet our stringent quality standards.
Today, American International Foods remains dedicated to delivering value throughout the ingredient supply chain by creating customized and innovative ingredient sourcing solutions that help our clients meet their goals and objectives. We strive to be the go-to partner for food and beverage manufacturers, reliably providing them with the raw material and value added ingredients they need to create exceptional products.
Our Advantage
We source the most competitive and highest-quality ingredients worldwide to ensure our ability to be a low-cost supplier to the food and beverage industry. Our distribution and trucking network is designed to deliver your products accurately and on time. Our representatives are passionate and knowledgeable professionals who are eager to serve you and help you. We hustle behind the scenes to ensure smooth and consistent order fulfillment, which helps you focus on more important things. We pride ourselves on timely, open, and honest communication with clients.
Powerful Solutions
- Communication: Companies come to us for empowering communication, we help them increase efficiencies by proactively communicating relevant information that aids them in making critical decisions.
- Capitalizing on New Trends & Market Opportunities: Food and Beverage producers rely on us for real time market specific information and insights that help them capitalize on emerging trends and opportunities to drive growth and profitability.
- Convenience: Manufacturers enjoy unparalleled convenience by leveraging our supply chain efficiencies on over 2,500 ingredients. Our flexible solutions provide value by allowing for fully customized buying programs and streamlining of operational processes.
- Warehousing: Manufacturers benefit from AIFI’s strategically located nationwide warehouse network, assisting them with saving valuable space in their own facilities and supporting urgent material needs.
Peace of Mind
- Reliability: Our customers experience extreme supply chain continuity by leveraging our industry leading 98.7% on time delivery rate, ensuring you have the materials you need when you need them.
- Service and Support: Raving fan customers experience live support by phone from a team dedicated to each individual client. Our unique partnership approach serves as an extension of your organization, helping you accomplish your key objectives and initiatives.
- Certification: AIFI’s world class Documents and Regulatory team delivers peace of mind for our clients, ensuring that the highest quality standards are met and providing all required documentation with an industry best turnaround time.
Profitability
- Cost Savings: Companies come to us to drive down costs on the ingredients they use most, we review where the are and design the right strategies to help them save money and increase profits.
- Maximizing Supply Chain Efficiencies: Our customers rely on us as an extension of their team, we partner closely with them to handle the intricacies of procurement and logistics, saving them valuable time
- Sourcing Support: We help companies stay ahead of the curve on product development by quickly and effectively sourcing new, unique, specialty, and hard to find ingredients so that they can focus on other important tasks.
- Time Savings: Access to a comprehensive portfolio of material solutions means fewer phone calls to make, fewer PO’s to write, and fewer shipments to track, allowing you to focus on what matters most.
Our Mission & Vision
It is our mission to perpetually create unsurpassed value in the ingredient distribution business. Our vision is to create a global company that shapes the future of human nutrition and food accessibility.
Our Promise
We strive to create value for each customer we serve by meeting their unique needs and providing solutions to help them solve problems and meet their objectives. We are committed to being experts in the food ingredient business on a global level. We vow to put this knowledge and leverage to work for our customers by being the source for new ingredients, information, and trends in the food industry.
Our Team
We are committed to running a customer-focused and innovative operation to ensure our ability to be a high-value partner and a low-cost supplier. Above all, we are dedicated to running an organization that fosters respect, fairness, and the pursuit of happiness for our employees, our clients, and our partners worldwide.
