M&S and Délifrance join clean label webinar

Experts from Marks & Spencer and Délifrance are to speak at British Baker​’s upcoming webinar entitled ‘Consumers, Covid and clean label baking – what’s next?’.​​

Andy Thomas, trading manager for bakery and in-store bakery at M&S, will be presenting alongside Stéphanie Brillouet, marketing director – Northern Europe & North America at Délifrance.

They join Emma Clifford, associate director of food & drink research UK at analyst Mintel, and Andrew Flounders, senior applications specialist at IFF, to discuss all things clean label.

The free webinar, sponsored by IFF, will take place on Thursday 18 March at 1pm (GMT London).

Here, the panellists will take a deep dive into what healthy and clean label means for the baking industry and its consumers, how manufacturers, retailers and suppliers can tap into it, and whether it’s possible to reformulate to make products healthier while keeping things clean label.

What’s more, those tuning in will have the opportunity to put their burning questions to the panel of experts as part of a live Q&A.

Be sure to sign up to the free webinar, and submit your questions for the panel, here.​​

Want to know more about our expert panel? Check out their bios below:

Emma Clifford, associate director – food and drink research UK, Mintel​

Emma has nine years of market and consumer analysis experience at Mintel, developing significant expertise in healthy eating in particular. She has written many cross-category reports, focusing on consumers’ attitudes and behaviour relating to food and diet, as well as current industry trends and new product development in this area.

Andy Thomas, trading manager – bakery & ISB, M&S​

Andy has led bakery commercial teams in the UK and Australia over the last 10 years. Committed to creating value in the bakery category, he has recently been involved in market leading bakery product launches across vegan, free from and top tier private label and is a lover of great sourdough bread.

Stéphanie Brillouet, marketing director – Northern Europe & North America, Délifrance​

Stéphanie has over 20 years marketing experience in the food industry with the last eight years specialising in bakery. In her current role, Stéphanie uses consumer trends and category insight to drive global strategy and product development for the business. She works closely with foodservice and retail customers to translate consumer and customer needs into solutions and products.

Andy Flounders, senior applications specialist, IFF​

Andy has a total of 32 years of experience in the food industry, from which 28 years have been spent in the bakery sector. Andy joined Danisco in 2001, which was acquired by DuPont in 2011 after which the DuPont Nutrition & Health division was formed. He has been an applications specialist within Nutrition & Health through all of that period working on bakery technology projects for the UK/Ireland and Middle Eastern regions, although he has also covered South Africa and Benelux regions in that time. He has previously worked for Weston Research Laboratories (part of Associated British Foods Group) as well as Mr Kipling Cakes (part of Rank Hovis McDougall group). In 2021, DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences merged with IFF.

The moderator will be moderated by British Baker editor Amy North.​