While select brands showed stronger-than-average performances over the past year, the overall frozen pizza category—including frozen pizzas and frozen pizza crusts/dough—has leveled off in sales.
The buns and rolls segment showed pockets of growth, with a mix of gains and losses across the board. While traditional products still maintain the lion’s share of the buns and rolls category, growth in gluten-free, organic and healthy options are starting to pick up.
Bread is the largest category in the baking industry, and as such, faces continual challenges related to incremental growth. While legacy brands continue to perform well, the fresh bread, bagel and English muffin categories remained largely flat to slightly down over the past year.
Five ounces of chocolate cookies finished with a blush of fragrant ginger. Joining ZEST’s Lemon Coconut Cookies and Shortbread Sandies, these delicious treats feature organic cocoa and ginger crystals baked with 75 percent California Almonds.
Vibrating fluid bed dryers and coolers from The Witte Co. enable food manufacturers to process gluten-free flours on the same processing lines used for processing wheat, rye, barley, oats and other glutenous products without risk of cross-contamination.
Papa John’s International continues to reinforce its commitment to BETTER INGREDIENTS. BETTER PIZZA. and providing consumers with quality menu options and “clean” ingredients by introducing another new pilot—Gluten-Free Crust made with Ancient Grains.
Todd Southerland, senior vice president and food & agribusiness industry manager at SunTrust Bank looks at strategies smaller food companies are using to capture more of the market.