P.L. Thomas & Co., Inc.

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PLT internationally sources, markets, and sells ingredients of plant origin to the food and nutraceuticals industries. We are committed to the constant improvement of our business performance through diligent and honorable efforts. We consciously and energetically use our international business activities as a platform to foster and improve mutual understanding among individuals from the many nationalities and cultures with whom we interact. We passionately believe in the compatibility of resourceful American private enterprise with the patriotic mission of well-representing the best qualities of our people and nation to an ever more restless and anti-American world.Marvin and Paul Flowerman have devoted a combined 86 years to their enterprise. After World War II service in Europe as a combat infantry platoon sergeant and translator, Marvin made his first hydrocolloids purchases in 1946 after joining a New York ingredients distributor. He started his own business in 1948, incorporating in 1952. P.L. Thomas & Co., Inc. was born in 1955 as a partnership between Marvin and Paul Greene, whose interests were acquired by Marvin in 1982.Paul Flowerman joined his father in 1976 after completing his studies in physics, history, and the history of ideas at Princeton and Harvard. He also has an MBA in marketing and international business from NYU. He devoted three years after college to teaching chemistry, physics, and mathematics in the pueblos jovenes surrounding Arequipa , Peru , and also in several Malaysian high schools. His varied academic interests, language study and use, and time spent in developing countries has had a strong influence on Paul’s approach to ingredient sourcing and overall business activity. For example, much of PLT’s progress may be traced to the trusting and very well-informed relationships that PLT forms with our international partners; we understand that such ties must be patiently developed and require active maintenance and updating through visits and open discussions. Those international partnerships are an important component of what we believe enables PLT to meet exceptional challenges and exacting client standards.

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