ASB announces 2013 Baking Hall of Fame Inductees during BakingTech
Current inductees to the American Society of Baking’s (ASB) Baking Hall of Fame, announced on March 4 at the Swedesboro, N.J., association’s annual BakingTech 2013 conference in Chicago, include the late Ernest Nickles of the Alfred Nickles Bakery; the late Willis Clark Pulver, founder of Pulver Systems; and Torahiko Hayashi, founder of Rheon Automatic Machinery.
Ernest Nickles was the son of bakery founder Alfred Nickles. He joined his father’s Ohio-based company in 1925 and worked there full time for 70 years, succeeding his father as president and CEO in 1949.