Baking & Snacks

The integration is designed to improve accuracy, save time, and strengthen compliance for Food to Go, retail, and foodservice operations by ensuring that ingredient, allergen, and expiry information on labels reflects live production and recipe changes.

The company positions avanté™ 25 as a targeted solution for cakes, donuts, waffles and other sweet bakery formats where sugar plays multiple functional roles such as moisture retention, aeration and crumb formation.

Gestat succeeds Thomas Lesaffre, who has been nominated to lead Fermentis, the group’s business unit focused on beverages and fermentation for the wine, beer, and spirits industries.

The solution is positioned as giving artisan bakers more creative flexibility, as wholemeal products have traditionally been dense, coarse, and less visually appealing.

The rapid rise of GLP-1 therapies is driving a profound shift in how consumers approach food, redefining not only eating habits but also the very concept of nutritional value.