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Sweet goods - including doughnuts, Danish, sweet rolls, coffee cakes and muffins - continue to hit consumers' sweet spot when it comes to snacking.

Despite growing demand for healthier snacks, consumers continue to turn to a perennial favorite - the snack cake - when seeking an indulgent and flavorful treat.

While tradition remains strong in the mature desserts segment, portion control, gluten-free and clean label, along with new flavor-forward profiles, continue to make inroads.

While the classics are still cornerstones of the cookie category, new flavors and formulations continue to vie for more market share.

Despite the lack of appreciable growth in pizza over the past year, select segments still display glimpses of innovation—and we’re far from fully realizing pizza’s potential.

While traditional bun and roll products continue to sell well, bakeries have ?diversified product offerings to include portion-controlled and nutrition-forward ?items, with more specialty products on the horizon.

As bakers and snack producers settle into Food Safety Modernization Act compliance, the landscape is already changing to include consumer perceptions of what’s safe.

In response to consumer scrutiny, snack and bakery brands hustle to achieve a “clean label.”

New packaging technology offers brands efficient, effective and attractive packaging, shipping and retail display options.

According to the 2014 “Conscious Consumer” study from Gibbs-rbb Strategic Communications, Americans are willing to spend 31 percent more per week on groceries if those products are made in ways that align with their social and environmental values.