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retail perspective: equipment innovations abound Small-scale wholesale bakery operations seek to improve efficiencies and save on labor costs. BY JOHN UNREIN, bake The expanding scope and cost of government regulations are placing new burdens on small businesses in the US, hindering their ability to create jobs and drive economic growth, according to a new survey released this May by the National Retail Federation. Nearly 60 percent of small business owners surveyed believe proposed regulations to ﬁne companies that allow ﬂexible employee schedules due to changing worker demands or business needs would hurt their businesses. Overtime expansion proposed by the Labor Department would likely result in negative consequences for nearly half (44%), according to the survey. And more than one-third (37%) of small retailers say raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour would either cause their business to fail or threaten its existence. Faced with such harsh realities, retail and intermediate wholesale bakery operations are, in some cases, pursuing central production facilities to enhance their efficiencies and save on labor costs. At IBIE, retailers and bakers can expect to ﬁnd the latest solutions to these current challenges. City Bakery, for example, has started construction on a new production bakery in Fletcher, NC. In order to meet the demands of its growing wholesale and retail business, City Bakery will move all of its bread production, presently baked in Asheville, NC, to the new facility, according to a company release. Upon completion in Taylor Petrehn of Lawrence, Kansas retail bakery 1900 Barker bakes his breads in a new TMB four-deck oven, with 40 loaves capacity. 118 / PreShow Guide / IBIE 2016

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IBIE - 2016 Special Edition & Show Preview

IBIE - 2016 Special Edition & Show Preview
Table of Contents
IBIE PERSPECTIVE - Challenges Amid Attractive Conditions
STATE OF THE INDUSTRY - Well Positioned for Growth
Fuel for the future
PARADE OF PROGRESS - Bakers and exhibitors say they go to IBIE because …It's About the Future
EQUIPMENT TRENDS SURVEY - Good Vibrations
IBIE TECH - Must-have Mobile
ENGINEERING ROUNDTABLE - Putting it on Automatic
ABA PERSPECTIVE - Election 2016: The Stretch Run
Getting the Message Out
‘Premiumization’ opportunities abound
B&CMA, ABA - Pathway to the Future
Cookie-cracker education at IBIE
FSMA & THE BAKERY - Proof of Validation
SANITATION & SAFETY - Signs of the Times
How to collaborate, a PMMI protocol
PACKAGING - One-stop Shop
COLD STORAGE LOGISTICS - Securing Smooth Sailing
INGREDIENT CHOICES - The Big Questions
Go ahead, eat, it’s safe
TAX RELIEF - Go Ahead, Spend
SOCIAL MEDIA - Plugged into Consumers
INGREDIENT TRENDS - Favorable Forecast
INGREDIENT TRENDS: FATS & OILS - Deadline: 2018
WORKFORCE GAP - A New Paradigm
BREAD TRENDS - I Love Bread
bake - Special Edition
Retail Perspective - Road to Recovery
Retail Perspective: Equipment - Innovations Abound
Retail Perspective: Cake - Standing out from the crowd
Retail Perspective: Education - School in session
A World of Opportunity
INTERNATIONAL INSIGHT: BAKED FOODS - Global Growth: It's Not Easy
ALL-AMERICAN TAILGATE - Kickoff IBIE 2016
VEGAS GUIDE - Something for everyone
Off the beaten path
Ad Index

IBIE - 2016 Special Edition & Show Preview