EUROPAIN 2018 – full of business and ideas for bakery and pastry

For 4 days, EUROPAIN brought together all the players in the sectorMore than 52 professionals – a third of whom were international – discovered the new features and came to learn about major trends and best practices.

3 major competitions, 4 labs and the Europain Forum have revealed new recipes, revealed promising talents or even presented innovative solutions and tools for more productivity, more transparency, for better management.

For exhibitors, this 2018 edition brought a quality visitors who had concrete projects both in terms of investment in production equipment and point of sale layout.

It was more than 100 novelties who have been revealed to the public.

“My Bakery Pastry Shop Tomorrow”

Le Endowment Fund EKIP launches a new edition of the Competition “My Bakery Pastry Shop Tomorrow”.

This competition is open to teams of two or three candidates currently in training, aged 2 to 3. The first three prize winners will receive prizes in the form of gift vouchers and educational books.

He has two main goals :

On the one hand, to encourage reflection on the bakery and pastry of tomorrow,

On the other hand, to design a project in its entirety: with plan and installation of equipment for production and sales areas using the MAVimplant software developed by INRS. Read more

French Academy of Chocolate and Confectionery

Katherine KHODOROWSKY, elected President of the Academy.

At the General Assembly held on January 15, 2018, the 40 academics elected this food historian and sociologist – an academic since 2000 and Vice-President since 2013 – to head the French Academy of Chocolate.

With chocolate all the rage, sugary treats under fire, and cocoa cultivation expanding across the world despite problems related to global warming, there's no shortage of topics to study.

For more information about the Academy: www.academiefrançaiseduchocolatetdelaconfiserie.fr

Contact: Laurence Jegou – tel 01 42 85 18 20 – academie@chocolatiers.fr