BEST In Baking 2025

Industry Award Winners

INDUSTRY AWARDS PROGRAM

Together with Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery, the International Baking Industry Exhibition (IBIE)’s BEST in Baking Industry Awards program will honor suppliers and bakeries committed to excellence in the industry’s most paramount topics—from sustainability and supply chain innovation to workforce development and automation. Winners will be highlighted at the BEST in Baking awards ceremony on stage at IBIE 2025.

JOIN US FOR THE AWARDS CEREMONY

Connect and celebrate the suppliers and bakeries who are leading the way. The BEST in Baking Industry Awards are presented to trailblazing companies who are doing big things in sustainability, sanitation, plant efficiency, workforce development and packaging innovation. Stop by the awards ceremony to learn more about these notable achievements.

WHEN: Sept. 15 at 9:00 – 10:30 AM
WHERE: West Hall Lobby

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2025 WINNERS

Sustainability

Ingredients (recognizing suppliers only)

Top Honors:

Puratos – Cubease dough conditioner | Booth 4131

Qualifiers:

ADM Milling Company – re:generations regenerative agriculture program | Booth 6747
Avena Foods Ltd. – Best Pulse Visco Enhancer (PVE) | Booth 7548
Beneo Inc. – BENEOPro FB ingredients: faba bean protein concentrate and faba bean starch-rich flour | Booth 8049
Innophos, Inc.– LEVAIR® ESL to extend the shelf life of baked products.| Booth 7238
Lallemand, Inc. – glaze management solution | Booths 3037, 3137
Tourlami Inc. – Plant-Based Butters: Tourlami All Purpose and Tourlami Premium | Booth 5563
Vantage Food – OPTIRELEASE suite of release agents | Booth 2416

Equipment (recognizing suppliers only)

Top Honors:

MECATHERM S.A. – Energy Recovery System combined with Hygro Control System | Booth 2333

Qualifiers:

Air Management Technologies, Inc. – Scavenger Waste Heat Recovery with Condensing Technology | Booth 1565
Flynn Burner Corp. – Flynn Electric Hybrid Burner | Booth 2664
GEA Group – E-Bake electric tunnel oven | Booth 4255
Verhoeven Bakery Equipment Family – Repeatloaf automatic high-precision fermentation system | Booth 2070

Automation & Robotics

Wholesale Bakeries:

Top Honors:

New Horizons Baking Co. – Smart Autonomous Bun Production System (SABPS)

Qualifiers:

Bimbo Bakeries USA – Digital Transformation & New Manufacturing Management Model

Suppliers

Top Honors:

JLS Automation – Peregrine IS Robotic Cartoning System | Booth 3215

Qualifiers:

ABI Ltd – KATANA 2.0 Robotic Scoring System | Booth 2333
Blueprint Automation – Spider 100v | Booth 4345
Apex Motion Control – Baker-Bot Quad | Booth 3167
Cimcorp Automation Ltd. – Dreamfield, order fulfillment solution | Booth 6133
GYRDIS – Gyro-pancake | Booth 7472
Houdijk North America Inc./Royal Houdijk – COOKIEBOT XP | Booth 4466
Koenig Baking Systems – Dough sheeting line Artisan SFE EC | Booth 3865
Meritech – CleanTech Automated Handwashing Stations with the Sole Clean enhancement | Booth 5265
Niverplast NA Inc. – CombiPlast Case Erecting & Bag Placing Machine | Booth 3275
PackNWood – REVOLUPACK Industrial Tabletop Sealing Machines | Booth 7822
Pcdata Logistics Automation – Robotic Order Picking | Booth 2364
Schmalz Inc. – Finger Grippers (mGrip) | Booth 5873
Simply Bread Co. – Simply Bread App | Booth 5771
Twin Peaks Online – MyOnlineBakery.com | Booth 6408
Vantage Food – MALLET CPG 1100 | Booth 2416
Wherefour Inc. – Wherefour ERP Software | Booth 6434

Plant Efficiency

Suppliers

Top Honors:

Intralox, LLC – ZeroSplice Technology | Booth 2965

Qualifiers:

AB Mauri North America – Data Collection for Process Improvement | Booths 1545, 5412
AccuSpray, a Bundy Baking Solutions Co. – AccuSpray Pan Oiler | Booths 2625, 6132
DAMS MACHINE – Tortilla Bread Production Line | Booth 6713
Hygiena – Time Tracker – KLEANZ | Booth 4164
IFF – ENOVERA 3004 | Booth 3855
Lallemand, Inc. – Essential BTR Prime | Booths 3037, 3137
Leaven Foods – Leaven Instant Sourdough
MECATHERM – MyMecatherm | Booth 2333
Regal Rexnord Corporation – Rexnord 6400 Series KleanTop Plastic Spiral Cage Belt | Booth 975
Topos Mondial Corp. – MFR-730 melting filtering reservoir | Booth 4001
Vantage Food – OPTIRELEASE suite of release agents | Booth 2146

Wholesale | High-Volume Bakery

Top Honors:

Bimbo Bakeries USA – Baked for Nature: Strategic Energy Management and Net Zero Carbon

Qualifiers:

Aspire Bakeries – Green Champion Program & Energy Efficiency Focus
Bimbo Canada – ZERO Loss Strategy

Sanitation

Supplier

Top Honors:

Goodway Technologies – PureBelt Modular Cleaning System | Booth 3477 gic Energy Management and Net Zero Carbon

Qualifiers:

Airgas, an Air Liquide company – Cryo Tunnel FP1 | Booth 857
Best Sanitizers, Inc. – Portable EZ Step2 Foot Activated Dispenser | Booth 5908
Sani-Matic Inc. – CyClean 35 Parts Washer with Sanitation Carts | Booth 5655

Supplier

Top Honors:

Nummies Bakery – Supreme Sanitation Program

Workplace Development

Supplier

Top Honors:

Puratos – Calling for Caring: Our Commitment to Employee Wellbeing | Booth 4131

Qualifiers:

Dawn Foods – Dawn Inspire Internship Program | Booth 2400
The Butter Book – The Butter Book | Booth 6575

Retail Bakery

Top Honors:

Rising Above Bakery Inc. – Individuals with special needs as equal members in the bakery’s workforce

Qualifiers:

Cake Craft Shoppe – Cake Craft Shoppe Baking Academy
Nick Vina Artisan Bakery – Workforce development and bakery sustainability

Wholesale Bakery

Top Honors:

Craftmark Bakery – The Power of Lean Training to Maximize Operational Efficiencies and Employee Engagement

Qualifiers:

Crown Bakeries – Leadership Essentials
New Horizons Baking Co. – Career Ladder Program

Sustainable Packaging Innovation — NEW FOR 2025

Retail Bakery

Top Honors:

JAMMPCO Manufacturing – The TA-DAA Box

Wholesale Bakery

Top Honors:

KIND Snacks – Paper Wrapper Pilot

Qualifiers:

Bimbo Bakeries USA – Arnold Organic 22 Whole Grains & Seeds / 30% PCR resin Bread Bags
Sugar Foods LLC – Fresh Gourmet Homestyle Country Ranch Croutons

Supplier

Top Honors: