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Allbröd visits North American bakeries
Nineteen representatives from Swedish baked foods supplier, Allbröd, and five of its baking partners including Polarbröd, Hägges
Finbageri AB, Gillebagaren AB, Finax Bröd and Cerealia Unibake,
visited North America in May. After calling on select baking companies in San Francisco and visiting a Canada Bread facility in Vancouver, BC, Canada, the delegation traveled to Kansas City, MO.
The representatives spent a full morning at the offices of Sosland
Publishing, publisher of Baking & Snack, Baking & Snack International, World Grain and others, for an open discussion comparing
United States baking and consumer trends with those of Sweden
and other European Union countries.
The baking group had the unique opportunity to view the
opening of the daily trading session at the Kansas City Board
of Trade. The trading floor is located in the same building as
Sosland Publishing.
Following this visit, the tour by the baking company and its partners traveled west of Kansas City to Custom Foods, Inc., DeSoto, KS,
which operates a 20,000-sq-ft facility and produces frozen dough
for regional and national sub sandwich and pizza accounts. After
touring the facility, the group met with John Khoury, president,
Rudy Tepsic, chairman and c.e.o. of Custom Foods along with representatives of several baking industry ingredient and equipment
suppliers as well as representatives from the American Institute of
Baking, Manhattan, KS.
The tour was coordinated through the Swedish-American
Chamber of Commerce.

OSHA addresses ABA
Safety Committee
Acting assistant secretary
for the Occupational
Safety and Health
Administration Jonathan Snare, addressed
the American Baker's Association's Safety Committee on June 9.
"This was a tremendous opportunity for
the wholesale baking industry to discuss
OSHA's priorities and industry challenges
with the head of OSHA," said safety committee chair Liz Marcucci.
The committee also heard from representatives from Capitol Hill on efforts to
improve OSHA's data quality, enforcement
and regulatory processes.

ᮡ Sosland Publishing's Marjorie Troxel Hellmer and Laurie Gorton (left), and Steve Berne
(center) pause for a photo with Allbröd outside the Sosland offices.
ᮢ Custom Foods' c.e.o. Rudy Tepsic (far left) and president John Khoury (far right) hosted
the Swedes to a tour of the frozen dough manufacturing plant.

APC celebrates national pie championships
Commercial pie manufacturers met in
Celebration, FL, at the 2005 American Pie
Council/Crisco National Pie Championships to learn from industry veterans, network with other bakers and test their
pies against the competition
for the chance to earn top
pie-industry honors in
the commercial division.
The competition took
place in conjunction
with the Great American
Pie Festival in April
"The National Pie Championships are the highlight of the year for many
of our commercial bakers," said Linda
Hoskins, executive director of the American Pie Council. "The championships pro-

vide commercial bakers with the opportunity to test their pies directly against the
competition and gain valuable feedback
about what judges liked and thought could
be improved about each pie. Plus, winning first place and thus earning
the right to place our APC
goal seal on a pie box can
increase sales of that pie
by 30 to 40 %."
The commercial division is one of three divisions
in the contest. This year, more
than 500 pies were entered in the
competition. The commercial division was
broken down into categories based on the
wholesale price and further divided into
20 flavor varieties.

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