Ardent Mills, Denver, hosted an event at Innovative Bakery Resources on July 29 to celebrate the one-of-a-kind bakery in Tualatin, OR. The event brought together employees, families and invited food industry guests to celebrate the bakery’s new name, Innovative Bakery Resources, and to showcase the facilities unique capabilities for serving a “who’s who” of food industry customers.
“Ardent Mills is an industry innovator with the largest portfolio of traditional, specialty and whole grain flours and ingredients,” says Bill Stoufer, Ardent Mills COO (pictured right). “With IBR, we are able to use our great ingredients to produce innovative high-inclusion breads with fillings, swirls, marbling, toppings and enrobings, while providing hand-touch care to every loaf at commercial scale. IBR is part think tank and artisan bakery, allowing us to partner with food manufacturers, as well as retail and foodservice enterprises, to bring complex baked goods to the consumer market.”