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Home » Authors » Bernie Pacyniak

Bernie Pacyniak

With more than 30 years experience in B-to-B reporting, writing and editing — the bulk of which was dedicated to covering the bakery, confectionery and snack industries — Pacyniak has chronicled changes within the food industry since the early 1980s. A Boston University journalism degree graduate, he worked for a variety of publications before joining BNP Media in 1994 as editor of Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery magazine. In 2001, he took over as editor-in-chief of Candy Industry until 2018.

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Opening Shots: 'Mastering' the deal

Bernie Pacyniak
June 20, 2008
I certainly didn’t expect it. And I would venture that most confectionery professionals, unless they had an inside track within Mars Snackfood’s executive sanctum, knew that the Hackettstown, N.J.-based candy
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Opening Shots: 'Mastering' the deal

Bernie Pacyniak
June 20, 2008
I certainly didn’t expect it. And I would venture that most confectionery professionals, unless they had an inside track within Mars Snackfood’s executive sanctum, knew that the Hackettstown, N.J.-based candy
Read More

Opening Shots: Now's the time

Bernie Pacyniak
May 30, 2008
Who jumpstarted 2008? Since the International Sweets & Biscuit (ISM) Fair in Cologne at the end of January, the year has raced forward with a variety of events, accelerating life
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Opening Shots: Now's the time

Bernie Pacyniak
May 30, 2008
Who jumpstarted 2008? Since the International Sweets & Biscuit (ISM) Fair in Cologne at the end of January, the year has raced forward with a variety of events, accelerating life
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Broadening Roca's reach

Bernie Pacyniak
May 30, 2008
Pierson Clair, president and ceo of Brown & Haley, in front of a stain glass work by Cappy Thompson, Gathering the Light, 2003, a collection from the Museum of Glass in Tacoma.
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Opening Shots: Breaking away from the bunch

Bernie Pacyniak
April 3, 2008
Here’s an interesting statistic: According to author Keith McFarland, only one tenth of one percent of small businesses ever break through $250 million in sales. There’s a good reason he
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Opening Shots: Breaking away from the bunch

Bernie Pacyniak
April 3, 2008
Here’s an interesting statistic: According to author Keith McFarland, only one tenth of one percent of small businesses ever break through $250 million in sales. There’s a good reason he
Read More

Home Improvement

Bernie Pacyniak
April 2, 2008
After having acquired the Canadian assets of the House of Brussels 17 months ago, Dynamic Confections quietly began "remodeling" the premium chocolate company to better fit its growth plans.
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Fresh From ISM

Bernie Pacyniak
March 13, 2008
Look closely and you’ll see I’m reading Cologne’s daily newspaper, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, while sitting in the Bar Tabac restaurant on the next to last day of the International Sweets and Biscuits(ISM) fair.
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Fresh From ISM

Bernie Pacyniak
March 13, 2008
Look closely and you’ll see I’m reading Cologne’s daily newspaper, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, while sitting in the Bar Tabac restaurant on the next to last day of the International Sweets and Biscuits(ISM) fair.
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