2022 January

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery eMagazine

January's Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery publication features our cover report: Wyandot Snacks and its B Corporation journey; plus much more!

Wyandot Snacks and its B Corporation journey

Wyandot Snacks, a legend in salty snacks, shares insights on its recent journey to B Corporation status.

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

February 3, 2022

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The U.S. snack industry established strong roots during the first half of the 20th century. Retail channel diversification, ingenious equipment engineering, and an increasingly mobile American public hungry for snacking adventure all contributed to the boom. Upstart innovators blazed their own paths across this fertile land, rich with opportunity.

Automation, sanitation, gentler handling sought for slicing, cutting, portioning equipment

Slicing, cutting, portioning equipment amps up their features and benefits.

Ed Finkel

February 2, 2022

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Higher capacities, new shapes, longer blade life, automation, flexibility, sanitary design, quick changeover, and gentler handling of fragile ingredients are among the top features and benefits that snack and bakery companies want from their slicing, cutting and portioning machinery.

Inspection/detection systems offer flexibility to snack and bakery companies

X-ray, metal detection, checkweighing, sorting, and vision systems feature many upgrades.

Neal Lorenzi

February 2, 2022

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When it comes to new developments in inspection/detection equipment for the snack and bakery industry, consumer demand for variety is driving the need for equipment that is flexible enough to accommodate new product types, packaging materials, and package sizes.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is essential for snack and bakery companies, so that they can organize all of their activities through a single piece of software.

Snack and bakery companies search for new and improved ERP software

New features aim to address traceability, food safety concerns.

Liz Parker

January 26, 2022

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is essential for snack and bakery companies, so that they can organize all of their activities through a single piece of software.

2022 Snack and bakery industry outlook

Industry leaders provide perspective on trends to watch in 2022.

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

January 30, 2022

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Every year poses its share of market challenges to companies operating in the snack and bakery market, a vital economic sector, which at retail alone accounts for over $100 billion in annual U.S. sales.

Crackers category ups its game with exciting flavors, new SKUs

Consumers look for better-for-you crackers, as well as nostalgic brand names.

Kimberly J. Decker

January 27, 2022

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As far as Carla King is concerned, the contemporary cracker aisle is a far more welcoming, perhaps even a more progressive, place than it was when she was younger.

Leavening ingredients help optimize quality, consistency, operational efficiency

Manufacturers search for clean-label, nutritionally sound leaveners.

Joyce Friedberg

January 25, 2022

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Leavening ingredients and leavening aides are important ingredients that help consistently create the textural qualities of various baked goods. And like every ingredient segment within bakery, leavening agents are subject to ongoing shopper trends.

Agents of change

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

February 3, 2022

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Are you part of the problem, or part of the solution? If you don't automatically align with the solution end of that equation, you might want to think about your overall messaging to consumers, and to the industry overall.

This webinar will provide perspective on how younger consumers are approaching the fresh bread category, and particularly center-store fresh bread products like sandwich breads, buns and rolls, bagels, and English muffins, as well as artisan breads found in the in-store bakery (ISB).

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery eMagazine

2022 January

Cover Story

Wyandot Snacks and its B Corporation journey

Feature Articles

Automation, sanitation, gentler handling sought for slicing, cutting, portioning equipment

Inspection/detection systems offer flexibility to snack and bakery companies

Snack and bakery companies search for new and improved ERP software

2022 Snack and bakery industry outlook

Crackers category ups its game with exciting flavors, new SKUs

Leavening ingredients help optimize quality, consistency, operational efficiency

Columns

Agents of change

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