THE NEWS WEEKLY OF GRAIN-BASED FOODS MARCH 22, 2011 bakingbusiness.com / foodbusinessnews.net BUNS PERSPECTIVE Baker of the Year Growth is a Turano specialty “ tick to your knitting” is a popu- lar expression to encourage stay- Sing true to one’s core strengths. In the early 1990s, Turano Baking Co., Berwyn, Ill., appeared to have strayed from its core strength of supplying spe- cialty baked products in its heritage Chicago market. Based on demand from a single, rapidly growing food service operator, the company decided Thins and fl ats continue to build a second plant in the nearby momentum in buns and suburb of Bolingbrook to supply frozen par-baked rolls to this customer. rolls category When the plant opened on sched- Rather than retrenching, the three ule nine months later, though, the Turano brothers — Renato, Giancarlo Story on Page 31 customer had suffered a business re- and Umberto (Tony) — who have been versal and no longer needed product working together at the company since LATE NEWS from the Turanos. The company had a the late 1960s, scrambled to fi nd other large new bakery, more new debt and customers for the new plant. Within a Baked foods, cereal no new business for the plant. Continued on Page 33 price index rises 0.4% WASHINGTON — The Consumer Price Index for baked foods and cereal products rose 0.4% in February after Yamazaki in major humanitarian increasing 1.1% in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of relief effort in wake of disaster the U.S. Department of Labor. The in- VIENNA, VA. — Even as the company company operates six plants sprinkled dex for all food at home also fi nished contends with numerous obstacles in its across the country along with several higher, rising 0.5% after gaining 1.4% efforts to operate, Yamazaki Baking Co. retail bakery-cafes. in January. Of the 18 items tracked is diverting production of nearly half its Working closely with the Japanese by Milling & Baking News, 15 posted baking plants to help with the massive government, Yamazaki early last week month-over-month gains, while 3 fi n- humanitarian relief under way in Japan. began producing about 500,000 baked ished lower. The February index for Providing an update late last week products daily (bread and sweet goods) Cereals and Bakery Products before was David B. Conner, vice-president for shipment principally to emergency seasonal adjustment was 254.2% of of human resources of Yamazaki’s U.S. shelters in areas most severely affected the 1982-84 average, up 1.1% from a subsidiary, Vie de France Yamazaki, by the March 11 earthquake that hit year ago. The C.P.I. for cereals and Inc., based in Vienna, Va. Tokyo-based northeastern Japan. cereal products in February was Yamazaki is Japan’s largest baking “The Japanese government wants us Continued on Page 8 company. In the United States, the producing as much as we can as quickly as we can,” Mr. Conner said. He said Yamazaki gradually has increased pro- duction through the week to more than 500,000 units per day for the relief effort. 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Hardly A panel at the soft wheat meeting of the North American Millers’ Association forecasts soft anything portrays this more sharply than red winter wheat production to increase 63% how the two largest global wheat importers in 2011. have experienced in recent weeks events that no one anticipated or could have BakingTech session forecast and whose repercussions pose Thins and fl ats continue 18 explores sodium reduction consequences that remain exceptionally momentum in buns and An ingredient session at the American Society diffi cult to comprehend. rolls category of Baking’s BakingTech 2011 focuses on Except for their unbelievably powerful reducing sodium, adding fi ber and simplifying and explosive character, the earthquake, labels on baked foods. tsunami and nuclear event that struck Japan Story on Page 31 N.G.F.A. urges exemption and the revolution recently in Egypt could 22 of bona fi de hedgers hardly be more different. One a natural disaster and the other a political upheaval DEPARTMENTS The National Grain and Feed Association says bona fi de hedgers and end-users of agricultural have little or no relationship to each other. 7 Editorial commodities should be exempted from swap Yet, these two nations, it so happens, are the 12 Business dealer reform. world‘s largest importers of wheat, and the main commonality arises from how these 14,43 International Durum semolina output very different occurrences reverberated in 18 Industry Activities 26 up 3.7% in 2010 global wheat markets. 15, 26 Data Production of straight semolina and durum For grain-based foods in America, it fl our by U.S. mills in 2010 aggregates 32,728,000 46 Supplier Innovations has been trying to fi gure out just how cwts, the third largest on record and up 3.7% such totally unexpected events will play from 2009. 47 Ingredient Week Trends out in wheat demand. In Japan’s case, 62 Archive Aryzta Food North America massive seawater fl ooding has severely 43 EBIT up in fi rst half damaged major rice-growing areas, while only slowing imports of wheat. Egypt very EBIT within the Food North America segment likely will continue to buy large quantities of Aryzta AG jumps 118% in the fi scal year’s fi rst half. The segment includes La Brea Bakery of wheat for its hungry people. Yet, these and Otis Spunkmeyer. events themselves emphasize the huge uncertainties of these easy predictions. MBN COMPANIES IN THIS ISSUE AAK ........................................... 44 Cain Food Industries, Inc. .......... 44 H.J. Heinz Co................................ 8 Nisshin Seifun Group ................ 15 Aryzta AG ..................................43 Campagna Bakery .....................34 Just Baked .................................12 PAI Partners................................. 8 Aunt Millie’s Bakeries................ 31 Canada Bread Co., Ltd. ..............12 Kraft Foods Inc. .........................43 Pepperidge Farm ....................... 31 Bakewise Brands .......................12 Columbia Grain Co. ...................14 Kronos Foods, Inc. ..................... 12 Rudi’s Organic Bakery ............... 31 Baking Technology Systems....... 31 CSM .......................................... 12 Le Duff America, Inc. ................... 8 Showa Sangyo .......................... 15 Barry Callebaut North America . 44 Danisco ..................................... 44 Marubeni Corp. .........................14 Sodiaal ........................................ 8 Bimbo Bakeries USA.................. 31 Fleischer’s Bagels, Inc. ...............12 McDonald’s Corp. ......................33 Turano Baking Co. .......................1 Bruegger’s Enterprises ................ 8 Flowers Foods, Inc. ....................31 Miller Baking Co. .......................31 Yamazaki Baking Co. ...................1 Cadbury India Ltd. .....................43 General Mills, Inc. ..................... 31 National Starch Food Innovation ....18 Yoplait SAS ..................................8 4 / March 22, 2011 Milling & Baking News bakingbusiness.com / world-grain.com Quality People An exceptional service experience since 1979. 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