Bakers must adapt products and merchandizing according to target retail channels because shopper behavior is very different in each, says a retail expert.
Surfacing Processing Ltd (SPL), a UK chemical cleaning company whose clients include Mars and Cadbury, is launching a bakery division after developing a non-stick engineered coating for bakeware.
Dispatches from Bakery Innovation Europe in Munich
One-third of all new bakery launches were sweet biscuits and cookies in 2013, the most popular on-pack claim was ‘no additives’ and the average price of baked goods rose, according to Innova Market Insights.
Traceable polymer additives and those that create subtle defects in plastic bakery trays should clamp down on the huge and costly issue of theft, their developer says.
Market analysis: German bakers pressured into consolidation
German bakeries are under increasing pressure to consolidate to survive in a saturated and fragmented market where retail and discount bakery is mounting, a business consultant says.
Closely analysing flavour compounds can help bakers select the best flours and oils to optimise taste, according to a flavour consultant with almost 20 years’ experience at Kraft Foods.
Norwegian firm Orkla Brands has announced the sale of its bakery unit Bakers to the retail group NorgesGruppen for an undisclosed fee as retailers augment their dominance on the Norwegian bakery market.
The growth of single pack portions is a key driver for Bosch Packaging Technology in the application of its Module ++ approach across the UK biscuit and fragile baked goods market.
Summer 2010 will the see the opening of a new innovation centre at a milled grain technology developer’s headquarters in Hamburg that is set to focus on R&D in the areas of health and nutrition.
Recent acquisition activity in the bakery ingredients supply industry involving Dutch firm Sonneveld being bought out by Orkla Food Ingredients may signal a flurry of similar takeovers and could mean price benefits for bakers, claims a market analyst.
Bakery products have underlined the overall resilience of UK-based processor and retailer Associated British Foods (ABF) despite what the company calls ‘steadily worsening economic conditions’ during the 2008 fiscal year.
Japanese firm Yamazaki Baking is the world's largest bakery firm,
heading a list dominated by Europe-based food groups, according to
a new report from industry analysts Leatherhead Food International
(LFI)
A new report from market analyst group Plimsoll has forecast a
difficult year ahead for the UK bakery sector which has already
felt the effects of a testing 2006.
An entry level horizontal flowrapper, developed as an affordable
and practical solution for small and medium size bakeries, has been
launched by Ulma Packaging.
The American Bakers Association (ABA) has successfully tested laser
marking for inscribing variable information on polyethylene bread
bags, according to the manufacturer of a coding product.
In a move to secure its supplier base for its bakery operations and
expand its business, the UK's Real Good Food Company (RGFC) said
yesterday it would buy Napier Brown Foods, a sugar group, for
£67.7min stock.
Merlino Italian Baking Company, Seattle's premier wholesale Italian
bakery are expanding their snacks base, by selling Moto Bars in new
outlets including Robeks Juice - the American firm who already own
30 stores in the Los Angeles...
UK subsidiary of bakery ingredients giant CSM takes the first steps
on the road to 'sweet treat' growth through the integration of its
latest acquisition, the cookie supplier Readi-Bake.
Allied Bakeries has reached an agreement with industrial equipment
supplier APV Baker to cover equipment service and maintenance for
more than 50 key processing units in five plants.
A disappointing Christmas period meant that sales did not quite
meet expectations, but French baked goods group Brossard
nonetheless ended the year with a 35 per cent rise in sales - and
expects further growth in 2003 after the launch...
US company Nutraceutical Clinical Laboratories International
Incorporated (NCLII) has begun selling its NuPreserv product to one
of the leading American bakery groups.
