Trends - Articles - Page 101 | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery

New warehouse equipment embraces connectivity, autonomy and robotics

April 10, 2019

To meet rising demand for fast delivery, snack and bakery warehouse operations have little room for error. Thus, many look to technological advances, including automation, to minimize the risk of unexpected delays, and to find new ways to streamline inventory management.

Healthy indulgence, transparency, sustainability all play important role for chocolate in snack and bakery products

Chocolate brings the best qualities of health and indulgence to snack and bakery products

Joyce Friedberg

April 8, 2019

Chocolate is one of the most popular and widely consumed products. Everyone likes chocolate. On average people consume 12.57 pounds of chocolate per year. And snacks and baked goods provide many opportunities for people to enjoy chocolate.

Snack and bakery insights into Generation Alpha

Michael Holleman

April 8, 2019

By now, is there anything we don't know about Generation Z? Born from 1996 through 2014, these 4- to 23-year-olds learn with their eyes and share appealing images via social media. They're environmentally aware and socially conscious. Most embrace cultural diversity.

Tortilla Trends: clean label and exciting flavors resonate

Health, high quality and culinary flavors lead the trend pack

Melissa Kvidahl Reilly

April 3, 2019

According to IBISWorld, tortilla production in the U.S. has grown 3 percent in the past five years thanks to the fact that tortillas, especially ones boosted with ingredients like spinach and whole wheat, are perceived to be healthier than bread during a time when consumers value nutrition.

Bühler joins the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Driving long-term, sustainable change with the WBCSD network

March 25, 2019

Bühler has joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a global network of nearly 200 forward-thinking companies.

Perfect Snacks brings a fresh perspective to the bar market

Perfect Snacks is making a name for itself as pioneers in the fresh, refrigerated bar market.

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

March 22, 2019

For Bud Keith, health and wellness was a way of life. He was, after all, a nutritionist, but his passion went well beyond a degree. In the 1960s, he established a juice bar and gym in Mission Beach, an iconic ocean-side neighborhood in San Diego.

EPA recognizes 41 ABA member baking facilities as 2018 ENERGY STAR certified manufacturing plants

March 22, 2019

American Bakers Association member facilities represent 41 of the 100 manufacturing plants recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR certification for their superior energy performance in 2018.

Ongoing sanitary design advances for snack and bakery equipment

Manufacturers and equipment providers continue to collaborate to set the sanitary design bar higher

Ed Finkel

March 21, 2019

To address ever-present and continuously growing sanitation-related concerns across the snack and bakery industry, equipment manufacturers are working to provide machinery that's easy to wipe down, doesn’t provide harborage for moisture or stray ingredients, and is simple, ideally tool-less, to disassemble and reassemble as needed.

Bakery Concepts International issued new U.S. patent

March 20, 2019

On February 5, 2019, Bakery Concepts International was issued a patent for a mixing chamber suited to mixing a variety of dry ingredients with liquid (U.S. patent no. 10,195,572 B2).