Bakery

At the Monday Morning Business Session on April 22 during the 2013 ABA Convention, a panel of key baking industry customers will offer their ideas on how the industry can partner together to grow the category. The panel discussion will reflect on the insights gleaned from a panel of influencers immediately preceding the customer panel. …

Awrey Bakery, which came within minutes of closing and having its assets sold at auction, reopened Monday under new ownership and again began rolling out the cookies, cakes and pastries it's become synonymous with for more than a century. …

A New Jersey maker of muffins and other baked goods has been accused of distributing mislabeled food, including products described as sugar-free but still containing sugar. …

If you regularly purchase Arnold bread, a popular supermarket brand, you may have noticed a slight tweak to the product’s packaging last summer. The little plastic clip at the end of the bag—colloquially known as a bread clip or bread tag—was replaced by a twist-tie. …

The Monday Morning Business Session on April 22 during the annual ABA Convention in Aventura, Florida, will begin with a unique panel of experts analyzing key trends in the baking industry. The panel, moderated by David Orgel, Editor-in-Chief of Supermarket News, will focus on current buying, retail and consumer trends in the baking industry. Each panelist will present a “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats” (SWOT) analysis on the baking category from their various perspectives. Following this panel of baking market influencers will be a retail customer panel that will observe the SWOT analysis and offer ideas and strategies on how the industry can partner together to grow the category. …