Bring Your Passion to the Surface
Garland products are cooking great food around the world. For over 160 years, Garland has been a leading innovator in food service equipment design and manufacturing standards. Because your kitchen is much more than a group of workstations. It’s the true heart of your business. It’s where real magic happens, transforming those essential ingredients into the high-quality meals your guests come back for time and time again. And, at Garland, we know those well-crafted creations can only come from equally well-crafted equipment.
That’s why we work directly with our customers, collaborating on solutions that are practical, effective, and long-lasting, helping to bring their passion to the surface every day. We’ve worked hard to earn their trust, constantly innovating and adapting to evolve with our ever-changing industry. We know that constant progress depends on products that are both thoughtfully designed and built to last. We always begin by listening to our customers and keeping their entire kitchen in mind, crafting solutions that fit into the wider workflow while also boasting a standalone power of their own.
From ranges and clamshell grills to complete island suites, we’ve collaborated on many breakthroughs to suit our customers’ diverse needs. Yet all of them have been grounded in the same fundamental purpose of practical application, crafted from genuine necessity to solve the real challenges facing your business. Today, Garland ranges, ovens, induction cookers, fryers, broilers, hot tops, griddles, and grills can be found hard at work in virtually every food service category imaginable.
As we now work toward the next hundred years, Garland remains dedicated to that high standard. Constantly working together to bring you the absolute best, we’re committed to upholding our tradition of progress – today and tomorrow.
For over 160 years, Garland has been a leading innovator in food service equipment design and manufacturing.
1864 - The Barbour family opens a small foundry in Detroit, Michigan, making stove parts for passing pioneers, that grows into the Detroit Stove Works.
1871 - Brothers Jeremiah & James Dwyer open the Michigan Stove Company in Detroit, Michigan, and produced over 200 varieties of stoves and ranges under the brand name GARLAND.
1893 - Garland's "World’s Largest Stove" display was unveiled at the World’s Fair. It was on permanent display in the Michigan State Fairgrounds until 2011 when it was destroyed by fire.
1925 - Detroit Stove Works and Michigan Stove Company joined to make the Detroit-Michigan Stove Company. The Garland line is the only brand remaining.
1929 - Brothers, Henry & Alexander Hirsch, founded Welbilt Stove Company in Maspeth, New York, and focused on gas ranges.
1952 - Russell Prowse establishes a Garland distributorship in Toronto, Ontario.
1953 - Prowse established a Garland manufacturing facility, Garland Commercial Ranges Ltd., in Mississauga, Ontario.
1955 - The Welbilt Stove Company purchased the Garland brand and moved the US production line to Maspeth, New York, becoming the Welbilt Corp. The Canadian production also continued to grow.
1973 - The Garland line outgrew the NY facility, and a new plant was built in Freeland, Pennsylvania.
1996 - Berisford International PLC, a UK-based company, acquired the Webilt Corp.
1999 - Garland discontinued its production of residential cooking products to focus solely on manufacturing commercial cooking equipment.
2000 - The Welbilt Corp. changed its name to Enodis PLC.
2001 - Famous chef Julia Child's “Big Garland” purchased in 1956, used throughout her career, was donated to the Smithsonian Museum for a display replicating her home kitchen.
2008 - The Manitowoc Company acquired Enodis and became Manitowoc Foodservice.
2010 - Manufacturing for all Garland products moved to the Mississauga facility.
2017 - Manitowoc Foodservice changed its name back to Welbilt, Inc.
2022 - Ali Group, an Italian-based company, acquired Welbilt, Inc.
Welbilt – global leaders
Welbilt, Inc. develops, produces and sells world-leading solutions in the foodservice equipment sector.
Offering you an unrivalled understanding of the customer and industry combined with comprehensive kitchen systems, culinary expertise and first-class customer service. Globally and locally. With business operations in America, Europe and Asia, Welbilt supplies leading brands such as Cleveland™, Convotherm®, Crystal Tips®, Dean®, Delfield®, Fabristeel®, Frymaster®, Garland®, Harford™, Icecore™, Inducs®, Koldtech®, Kolpak®, Lincoln®, McCann’s™, Merco®, Merrychef®, Multiplex®, RDI®, SerVend™, SunFire®, U.S. Range™ and WMaxx™.
You can find out more about Welbilt, and how our leading brands could help you from our website: www.welbilt.com. You can also find details here of our regional and local offices.