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RBA Contributes to Washington Times on Growth of Specialty Bakeries
January 19, 2007
Independent bakeries have found some sweet teeth. Bakeries, whether they serve cakes like your grandma made or vegan muffins, are enjoying a bit of a resurgence throughout the Washington area... [full story]
RBA Launches the Retail Bakers Industry Search
January 2, 2007
The Retail Bakers of America (RBA) today announced the launch of the Retail Bakers Industry Search. This valuable new business tool will be available to all RBA members from a link on the RBA homepage (www.rbanet.com). The Retail Bakers Industry Search will feature a broad array of products and services listings relevant to the baking industry that will aid RBA's members in their purchasing...[full story]
Sunny Guraedy Named 2006 Pillsbury Grand Champion at RBA's
6th Annual Creative Decorating Competition
October 30, 2006
The Retail Bakers of America is proud to announce that Sunny Guraedy from Minot, North Dakota, has won this year's RBA Creative Decorating Competition, sponsored by General Mills Bakeries & Foodservice, and has been awarded the coveted title of 2006 Pillsbury Grand Champion. The two-day competition, held during the 2006 American Bakery Expo, Oct. 21 - 23, featured 14 talented...[full story]
American Bakery Expo 2006
The Only National Retail Baking Conference and Expo in 2006
July 6, 2006
The Retail Bakers of America (RBA); the New York State Association of Manufacturing Retail Bakers; and the New Jersey Board of Trade have joined forces to present the largest retail bakery exposition in the United States, the American Bakery Expo (ABE) 2006 being held October 21 - 23 at the Atlantic City...[full story]
RBA Announced Winners in Commercial Baking 2006 SkillsUSA Championships
June 27, 2006
The Retail Bakers of America (RBA), sponsor of the SkillsUSA Championships in Commercial Baking, announced the winners of the competition on Friday, June 23, 2006 at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference Awards Ceremony. The Conference held June 19 - 23, 2006, in Kansas City, MO had over 4,700 outstanding career and technical education students ...[full story]
RBA Announces Addition of The Business Owner
June 2, 2006
The Retail Bakers of America (RBA) is proud to unveil The Business Owner, a new member-only publication that will deliver basic business advice and know-how for today's small and mid-size business proprietor. Published six times per year, each issue will deliver knowledge and know-how in areas like business strategy, profit and cash flow maximization...[full story]
Retail Bakers Association Appoints New Leader
January 11, 2006
The leadership of the Retail Bakers of America proudly
announced Susan Nicolais, CAE, as their new executive vice president (EVP). Nicolais, who
assumed control on January 1, 2006, now oversees all operations of RBA. Her primary focus will
be the organization's complete rebuilding, occurring this year and dedicated to membership
benefits and growth...[full story]
RBA Members can read these articles in their entirety by going to the Industry News section of the memmbers-only Web site.
CSM Renames Merged Entities
CSM Bakery Supplies North America recently announced that as of January 1, 2007, recently merged Caravan Products and American Ingredients will be named Caravan Ingredients. The merger, which was originally announced back in May, will allow for both...[complete article].
Bioterrorism Act Requirements To Go Into Effect
June 6th marks the date that all required "small businesses" (11 - 499 employees) must be in compliance with the record keeping requirements of the Bioterrorism Act. The records that must be kept by these regulations are those that are needed for inspection, to allow the identification of the immediate previous sources and immediate subsequent recipients of food, including its packaging....[complete article].
Dawn Merges With Countryside
Dawn Food Products, Inc. announced recently that it will combine operations with Countryside Baking, Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based cookie and sweet goods manufacturer.
The move will have little impact on the day-to-day operations of either company, instead focusing on a sharing of knowledge and expertise between the two companies. Dawn does expect to use its access to Countryside's cookie manufacturing facility as a way to strengthen its core competency in the frozen bakery products market....[complete article].
New FDA Manual on Food Safety Released
The FDA has released its food safety and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) manual titled "Managing Food Safety: A Manual for the Voluntary Use of HACCP Principles for Operators of Food Service and Retail Establishments". Designed to present information for establishing and implementing food safety procedures and practices....[complete article].
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