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This year’s Labor Day holiday offered a grateful comparison to acknowledge our progress over the past year and a moment to pause amid the whirlwind of the past eight months of 2021. The holiday also served as a reminder of just how far we’ve come thanks to the efforts of the nearly 800,000 baking industry workers.

In 2019, IBIE and iba announced a strategic alliance partnership to support the growth and advancement of the global baking industry. We have found since then our world is more connected than ever. This makes this October’s educational events even more exciting. All around the world, at the same time, our industry will produce events both in-person with IBIEducate 2021 in Kansas City and virtually with iba.CONNECTING EXPERTS. 

Hello Baking Industry,  By now many of you have probably taken advantage of your priority access to IBIE exhibit space! Whether you’ve just submitted your application for Round 2, or already selected your space in the expo hall – here’s the latest on how to prepare for IBIE 2022, the Western Hemisphere’s largest and most comprehensive baking event.

We’re living in a time where there are many places to find information, yet it’s hard to know if the time spent searching is time well spent. With an abundance of resources available, how does one keep up with it all, especially as we look for ways to keep our lives and our businesses informed and moving forward?

BEMA-U was back on the road and back in action providing training to the sales team and Peerless Food Equipment. It was my pleasure to join Eric Cruse, General Manager, and his team for two days of customized Sales Effectiveness training.

IBIE Round 2 is open to BEMA members, as well as past exhibitors. BEMA members can save up to 30% / sq. ft. vs. the non-member rates!

Although, we live in a world with constant access to data, it’s not always easy to discern the value of the data received. The BEMA Intel platform offers a better way to understand the marketplace and improve management of one’s business through the application of quarterly data inputs and quality data analysis.

The supply chain remains in great flux, making the importance of transparency between bakers and suppliers more important than ever before. Both are ramping up communications internally and externally to keep all involved informed and on the same page.

Another BEMA Convention is in the books and after 15 months of virtual connection overload, it was great to be back in person. One attendee observed that the connections, information and sharing that look place over the four days of Convention would take months to replicate in the virtual environment.

The new Workforce Wednesday edition kicked off BEMA’s Convention 2021 on Wednesday, June 23. The inaugural event combined the networking of Convention with the education of BEMA-U.