Bakery Ingredient Prices

Bakers navigate the perfect storm

Part IV: Ingredient prices challenge profitability

The rapid, steep increase in ingredient and fuel costs has forever changed the accounting landscape for bakeries. To keep up with the increased costs...

Part III: Manage Retail Prices For True Profit

While retail bakers increased prices this year to counter skyrocketing commodities costs, did they raise them enough? Bakery owner Karl Schmitt shares his methods for answering this question and scrutinizing bakery profit and loss reports (P&Ls) in this challenging economy....

Part II: Adjust your bakery business

Bakery operators only raise prices when they have to. Most bakers, from the smallest retailer to the largest wholesaler, have had to more often and by...

Part I: Ingredient prices challenge profitability

The first in an exclusive series on the volatile state of bakery ingredient prices, Modern Baking explores key factors driving the problem and how bakers are dealing with it. ...


News Briefs

ABA urges immediate government action to lower consumer food prices

“Congress and the Bush Administration must act now in order to stave off further increases in consumer food...

Statement of Richard Reinwald, owner of Reinwald’s Bakery, before the Joint Economic Committee

I would like to thank the Joint Economic Committee for holding this hearing today on how high food prices are affecting American families. I would especially like to thank my Senator ...

ABA Band of Bakers march on Washington, D.C. announce action plan for wheat crisis

Bakers and other allied groups joined forces in Washington, D.C., today to draw attention to record high wheat prices and tight ...

Video of Richard Reinwald testifying before congress

Wheat data: Yield tables

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