The upcoming edition of the AIBI Congress will be held between May 27 and 29 on the French Riviera. The event is jointly organized by AIBI and FEB and will line up an agenda focusing on key issues, including sustainability, innovation, nutrition, digitalization and Al, talent, and the evolving role of industrial bakery.
Following its end-of-year board meeting, the International Association of Plant Bakers (AIBI) hosted its traditional Bread Initiative symposium at its Grand Place headquarters, in Brussels. Its members and partners joined the event themed ‘Keeping bread on the table’.
The biggest organizations in the industry joined their efforts to formulate a shared vision regarding the essential role of bread production in Europe, for Europe.
The Bread Initiative released a vision paper, titled ‘Keeping Bread on the Table’ ahead of the European Parliament elections, held from June 6 to 9 this year, highlighting key requests that should guide policy-making during the next EP term. The paper was signed by the five European trade associations behind the Bread Initiative: AIBI, CEBP, COFALEC, European Flour Millers and Fedima.
The 38th AIBI Congress brought the baking industry together this year for the moment’s most important topics, decision-making meetings and long-awaited reunions. The International Association of Plant Bakers organized this year’s event with the theme ‘21st Century Breeze over the Bakery’, and a picturesque location to match it: the city of Hamburg.
At the 38th AIBI Congress, Jean-Manuel Lévêque was appointed as the association’s new president, as the two-year mandate of the previous leader, Georg Heberer (Germany) came to an end. Lévêque returns to the leadership of AIBI – he was previously its President from 2015 to 2017.
Associations from Slovakia and Poland joined the International Association of Plant Bakers. The Board also approved the membership application from UBA (Ukrainian Bakers Association).
Georg Heberer talks about the development of the European bakery markets during his term in office as well as the goals and future of the International Association of Plant Bakers – AIBI.
A new event, the 2023 Bakers Forum, will debut this year, endorsed by UK’s Federation of Bakers (FoB) and the Association of Bakery Ingredient Manufacturers. The event will be held in Leeds, from May 19 to 20.
AIBI announced it is hosting a networking end-of-year event for its members and partners on December 12, 2022.
Georg Heberer, Wiener Feinbäckerei, was elected the new AIBI president at the organization’s Congress held in Bled, Slovenia from June 16 to 18. More than 100 representatives from the association’s member countries attended the in-person event.
Approx. 200 baking sector representatives met together for the 36th AIBI Congress in Manchester.
