ASB Conference Presentation October 2017

1. Trends, issues and breads
a.k.a. What’s happening across the ditch?
Kevin Gilbert - BIANZ President

2. Product Trends
• Burgers
• Patisserie – esp. Choux
• Pies with a difference
• Milk bread / milk buns
• Sourdough
• Charcoal & smoke
• Vegan

3. Consumer Trends
• Social media
• Informed consumer
• Conscious consumer

4. • Health claims – actual or not
• Population medication
• Gluten is evil
• Ever changing Food Safety Legislation
• Tom, Dick, or Harriet Bakery on Facebook
Market Trends

5. Where is the love?
• Decline of packaged white sliced bread
• Rise in Supermarket in-store bakery popularity
• Farmers Markets and craft bakeries
Friday Jul 18, 2014
Supermarkets take big slice off price
of a loaf
as store wars beginThe bread wars have
begun.
From today, Countdown shoppers will be
able to buy a loaf of Homebrand
bread for $1.A Pak 'n Save email to customers
promised sliced bread for "under
$1".

6. Return of the craft
• Mills raising the bar
• Milling bakeries
• Consumer accepted colour
o C.O.A.s
o Traceability
o Competitions

7. Areas of concern

8. • On the endangered species list
• Attracting people to and keeping them in
and engaged with the industry
• Knowledge & skill vs the Government
o If you can’t do anything else…
o Peoples perception
• Salary & position expectation vs reality

11. Areas of concern

12. • Skills Shortage list
• Food Safety
• Health & Safety
• Flour levy
• Folate addition
• Country of origin
• Minimum/living wage
Areas of concern

13. Looking forward

14. Looking forward

15. Looking forward
• Collaboration and knowledge sharing
• We’re a small industry (realistically) so why not be a close knit
one?
• Conference attendance
• Exchange programme

18. Questions?