House of Spices started by two brothers G.L. Soni and Kumar Soni in 1970 and was incorporated in 1974. The two brothers started with one store in Jackson Heights, NY and soon found the market for Indian and Pakistani food was growing at an expeditious rate. They kept up with the demand by opening up warehouses around the country that would import, store, manufacture, and distribute over 3000 different items from all over the world. House of Spices how has nine distribution centers around the Unites States with a total of 500,000 square feet of space distributing to the ethnic markets as well as to mainstream markets.
The product line for House of Spices includes its own brand name, Laxmi Brand. Under the Laxmi Brand House of Spices carries all types of daals, beans, nuts, spices, edible oils, flours, pickles, pastes, chutneys, frozen vegetables and frozen meals. Under Shamiana House of Spices carries sweets, snacks as well as ice cream. In 2006 House of Spices started distributing Amma’s Kitchen snacks and bought the rights to Maaza North America.
House of Spices is also the sole distributor in America for many other product lines such as GITS, PATAK, Mother’s Recipe, DAAWAT, MAAGI, Badshah, MDH, Roof-Afza from Pakistan, Frooti, Parle – G, Kaawan frozen from Malaysia just to name a few. House of Spices is currently run by the second generation of Soni’s and have plans to grow and expand the business further. Please direct any questions, comments, concerns, inquiries or suggestions without hesitatation to the head office at 718-507-4900.
From everyone at House of Spices we thank you for your continued patronage and hope you continue to purchase our products at the retail stores as well as online.
