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Overland Park, KS: With just one month to go before Convention 2022, BEMA’s Membership Value & Engagement Committee is proud to announce the winners of the inaugural BEMA Ascend scholarship.

Planning ahead is not something many of us have had the luxury of doing over the past couple of years. In fact, these days doing so can feel like an absolute extravagance.

Overland Park, KS: BEMA is pleased to announce the keynote speaker for Convention 2022. Stephanie Stuckey, CEO of Stuckey’s, will share her inspirational story of the reinvention of a family business and how she is revamping the storied brand while expanding markets for Stuckey’s pecan products via e-commerce and other outlets.

As we enter March, this is the time to start building your marketing campaign for IBIE. The work done now will be key to building and strengthening associations between your business and IBIE and creating a base for lead generation for your company’s varied services, ingredients and equipment.

As the Western Hemisphere’s largest and most comprehensive baking event, I’m amazed at the ongoing advances in marketing and sales assistance provided by IBIE, and the 2022 show is shaping up to be no exception. Keep reading to learn about the best ways to represent your company’s brand at IBIE 2022!

This year BEMA enters the second year of its current strategic plan. The three-year plan, launched in 2021, establishes a long-term trajectory for our organization.

Since the last IBIE, our industry and the world have been through incredible, unimaginable changes. Coming through the past two years, the industry has been lucky to always have the shining beacon of IBIE ahead in 2022.

These days, there’s plenty to talk about, and the laundry list the industry continues to deal with grows longer still. Manufacturers and suppliers alike are starting each day with some very big, looming questions of automation, supply chain, and staffing as they also navigate ongoing COVID precautions and the long-term implications and questions about vaccine mandates and testing.

This year’s Labor Day holiday offered a grateful comparison to acknowledge our progress over the past year and a moment to pause amid the whirlwind of the past eight months of 2021. The holiday also served as a reminder of just how far we’ve come thanks to the efforts of the nearly 800,000 baking industry workers.

In 2019, IBIE and iba announced a strategic alliance partnership to support the growth and advancement of the global baking industry. We have found since then our world is more connected than ever. This makes this October’s educational events even more exciting. All around the world, at the same time, our industry will produce events both in-person with IBIEducate 2021 in Kansas City and virtually with iba.CONNECTING EXPERTS.