2023 October

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery eMagazine

September's Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery publication features Bakery of the Year: Highland Baking Co.

Bakery of the Year: Highland Baking

The 2023 Bakery of the Year, Highland Baking, is focused on growth, quality, customer service, and its workforce.

Jenni Spinner

October 30, 2023

If you’ve never visited a large-scale bakery facility, stepping onto the production floor of Highland Baking’s flagship location in Northbrook, IL is likely to overwhelm.

iba 2023 preview: Industry trends, timely topics

iba attendees will find networking and educational opportunities at this year’s show.

Liz Parker Kuhn

October 24, 2023

The 2023 iteration of iba, a trade fair for the baking and confectionery industry, is scheduled October 22-26 at Fairground Munich in Germany.

Automated technology can help increase efficiency in snack and bakery warehouses

Snack and bakery warehouse managers find automation adds efficiency to their operations.

Ed Finkel

October 23, 2023

Snack food and wholesale bakery companies are building varying levels of automation in their warehouse shipping and receiving areas, ranging from forklifts to autonomous vehicles, to traceability software and more, all in an effort to make their operations more efficient, effective, safer, and more profitable.

Puffed and extruded snacks innovate with pulses, spicy flavors

Consumers continue searching for better-for-you puffed and extruded snacks.

Liz Parker Kuhn

October 18, 2023

The puffed and extruded snacks category is having a great year: all of its subcategories are up from the same time period last year, per Circana data, and consumers are returning to gatherings where snacks like Cheetos, Funyuns, and other snacks are omnipresent.