Felix Storch, Inc.

What does Felix Storch, Inc. own?

Felix Storch, Inc. owns and operates four divisions: Summit Appliance for residential specialty appliances, Summit Commercial for foodservice, AccuCold for medical and laboratory refrigeration, and PureTherm for warming cabinets. All operate from the company's Bronx headquarters.

Is Felix Storch publicly traded?

No. Felix Storch, Inc. is a privately held, family-owned company. It does not publish financial statements, and outside estimates place annual revenue between approximately $47 million and $100 million.

Who founded Felix Storch?

The company was founded in 1969 by the Storch family in Long Island City, New York. It remains family-owned and managed today, with family members working alongside long-tenured industry executives.

Where is Felix Storch headquartered?

Felix Storch is headquartered at 770 Garrison Avenue in the Bronx, New York. The company moved to the Bronx in 1983 and purchased its current building in 1998.

How many brands does Felix Storch own?

FSI operates four brands: Summit Appliance, Summit Commercial, AccuCold, and PureTherm. Each serves a distinct market segment, from residential specialty appliances to medical refrigeration.

Is Summit Appliance made in the USA?

Summit performs value-added manufacturing, assembly, and distribution in the Bronx, New York. Base units and components are sourced from contract manufacturers overseas, with final configuration and quality work done at the New York facility.

Felix Storch, Inc. was founded in 1969 in Long Island City, Queens, as a manufacturer and distributor of specialty major appliances. In its first year, the company trademarked the Summit Appliance brand name, beginning the identity it still trades under today.

The founding insight was category neglect: national appliance brands focused on standard-size appliances for suburban kitchens, leaving undercounter, apartment-size, and compliance-driven products underserved. FSI built its distribution supplying refrigeration and cooking products in those specialty formats to the New York market and beyond.

Growth forced relocation in 1983, when the company moved its headquarters and operations to the Bronx. It purchased its current building on Garrison Avenue in 1998, consolidating manufacturing, back office, distribution, and trucking in one location. The company's own truck fleet still delivers across the Northeastern United States.

FSI expanded from a single brand into a multi-division structure as it entered adjacent regulated and commercial markets. Summit Commercial was organized for the foodservice market. The AccuCold division was created to serve medical, pharmaceutical, and laboratory refrigeration customers, a business that eventually required and received an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited calibration laboratory on site. The PureTherm line added warming cabinets for healthcare and commercial use.

The company achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management system, and its AccuCold lab holds ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation, unusual credentials for a company of its size that underpin its medical market credibility.

Through the 2010s and 2020s, FSI broadened Summit's residential assortment with frost-free apartment refrigerators, induction cooking, combination laundry units, and outdoor-rated appliances, while deepening its medical catalog with vaccine-grade and pharmacy refrigeration. Demand for vaccine and laboratory cold storage during the 2020 to 2022 period brought additional attention to the AccuCold line. The company has stayed independent and family-owned throughout, resisting the consolidation that swept most comparable specialty appliance makers into larger groups.

FSI's sustainability posture is practical rather than programmatic. Its Bronx facility consolidates production and distribution in one urban location, and the company participates in refrigerant transitions toward lower-impact coolants across its refrigeration lines. As a private company it publishes no sustainability report and holds no third-party ESG certifications beyond its ISO quality and calibration accreditations.