Bakery

Excellent Packaging & Supply, an innovator and wholesale distributor of sustainable, biodegradable, and nature-based packaging for foodservice and other applications, has added two new lines of clear, 100-percent bio-based retail food bags to its range of packaging solutions. Designed for the fast-growing “food-to-go” and packaged foods markets, and developed especially for Excellent Packaging, these easily compostable bags are ideal for presentation and display of prepared foods such as confectionery and baked foods. …

Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. is voluntarily recalling from its in-store bakeries the following items because themislabeled products may contain undeclared egg and/or wheat. …

Dancing Deer Baking Company, a leader in the natural/specialty products industry and online gift market, and known for innovative and gourmet quality all-natural brownies, cookies, cakes and baking mixes, has recently named Lori King, Chief Operating Officer (COO ) of Stonewall Kitchen, to its Board of Directors. …

Still clinging to medieval traditions, the cloistered monks of Monks Bread are using 21st-century methods to make and market the bread that supports their religious order. Recently the Abbey of the Genesee hosted representatives of its distributor, Bimbo Baking USA, and Wegmans Food Markets Inc., talking with each about the possibility of deepening the relationship. Wegmans, according to spokeswoman Jo Natale, currently carries five Monks' Bread varieties, with some seasonal additions, and sells it in 49 of its 77 stores, including 47 in New York and two in Erie, Pa.

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Barry Callebaut , the world's largest maker of chocolate products, plans to upgrade grinding capacity at its cocoa processing plant in Ivory Coast to 175,000 tonnes a year from 105,000 tonnes now, its CEO said. …