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1 Bakery and Bake-off Market Study This report is an initiative of the FP7 'Low Energy Ovens' project (n 613581)Executive Summary The bakery industry is a large supplier of jobs and revenues for the European economy. Although not growing at a comparable rate as in developing countries, it presents a positive outlook due to its ongoing evolution from a very fragmented artisanal business-based sector, to a more industrialised one. This evolution, due to diverse socio-economic factors, drives the bakery companies to improve their productivity while still increasing their versatility, which will create opportunities for innovation of different kinds.

2 Particularly concerned companies are bakery equipment providers, especially bakery oven manufacturers, which will have to create innovative solutions to support the bakery companies to gain operational efficiency and flexibility. Still, the situation varies from one European country to another. Consumer habits, economic environment, or baseline bakery industry structure and dynamics are at different stages in different countries. This report describes the current state of the European bakery and bakery oven industries and markets, as well as the trends for the next years.

3 The FP7 LEO project is a EC funded collaborative project entitled Enabling small-to-medium sized oven technology producers and bakeries to exploit innovative Low Energy Ovens that aims to develop innovative infrared baking ovens and prepare their commercialisation. The key results to be exploited in the LEO project consist in an infrared oven technology developed for two types of batch oven and one conveyor oven. Compared to a standard baking oven, the pre-heating step with the prototype oven required between 20-40% less specific energy with a gain in time up to 70%.

4 The invention has been patented by ONIRIS in 2009 (WO 2011/006955-A2). More information on the LEO project and the development of the infrared technology can be found on the project website: The LEO project is supported by the European Commission under the KBBE thematic of the 7th Research Framework Programme. Page 3 of 57 Table of Contents Executive Summary .. 2 1. Introduction .. 4 2. Business Context .. 6 Political Environment .. 7 Economic Environment .. 8 Social Environment .. 9 Technological Environment .. 10 3. Bakery Products Consumers .. 12 Convenience.

5 12 Health .. 13 Taste and Authenticity .. 14 Value for Money .. 14 4. Bakery Production and Retail Industries .. 15 Structure of the industry .. 15 Size and status .. 19 Main Industry Players .. 27 Industry trends and outlook .. 30 5. Bakery Products Market .. 32 Size and Status .. 32 Segmentation .. 33 Trends .. 37 6. Bakery Oven Industry .. 39 Structure of the Industry .. 39 Size and status .. 43 Main Industry Players .. 43 7. Bakery Oven Market .. 44 Size and Status .. 44 Segmentation and trends .. 46 8. Baking Technology Market .. 49 Common bakery oven heating technologies.

6 49 New bakery oven heating technologies .. 50 9. Potential Customers for Low-Energy Bakery Ovens .. 51 Market Research Methodology .. 51 Target Customers Profile .. 52 Drivers of Purchase .. 53 10. Conclusion .. 57 Page 4 of 57 1. Introduction This report was written in the frame of the European Commission funded FP7 project LEO . The main objective of the LEO project is to enable a commercial opportunity for an infrared-based low-energy technology for bakery ovens, developed by ONIRIS, a French public research organisation, in the frame of the previous FP7 EU-FRESHBAKE project (2006-2009).

7 Figure 1: Low-energy infrared baking technology One activity in the LEO project consisted in conducting a Market research of the bakery and bakery oven industries and markets, in order to support the business planning of the technology exploitation. However, this Market research was also carried out with a public audience dissemination perspective. Thus, we hope to provide to any person with an interest in the bakery area a document that summarizes the key facts and trends of the industry and Market . The fact that the research was initially conducted to support a bakery oven technology introduction to Market has influenced the structure of the report.

8 Indeed, the Market research s purpose was to identify the customers that the new baking technology should target. However, it was assumed that an understanding of the whole value chain was necessary, since the needs of the bakery products consumers influence what the bakery producers or retailers need from their ovens. For this reason, the concept of the present Market research report is to divide the analysis into several markets studied in a bottom-up approach (bakery products Market , bakery ovens Market and baking technologies Market ), with analyses of the related industries (bakery production and retail, and bakery oven industry), this after an overall business context analysis.

9 Page 5 of 57 The report is structured according to this approach: The overall business context is described in Part 2. Part 3 looks into the bakery products consumers trends, which have an influence on the needs for bakery ovens. Part 4 analyses the bakery production and retailing industries, since they contain the customers for bakery ovens. Part 5 investigates the bakery products Market , putting together the bakery producers, retailers and consumers. Part 6 describes the bakery ovens industry in regards to its factors influencing the infrared baking technology adoption.

10 Part 7 deals with the bakery oven Market , in which the bakers and some bakery products retailers are the customers. Part 8 reviews the current state of the baking technology Market . Part 9 draws on all the previous parts information as well as a field work Study , to describe the profile of key customers the infrared baking technology. The conclusion of the report summarises the key findings of the Market research. The organisation of the report is captured in the Figure 2 below. Figure 2: Value chain of baking technology and organisation of the Market research report BUSINESS CONTEXT Part 2 BAKERY OVEN INDUSTRY Part 6 BAKERY PRODUCTION AND RETAIL INDUSTRIES Part 4 BAKERY PRODUCTS CONSUMERS Part 3 TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPERS BAKERY OVENS MANUFACTURERS CRAFT BAKERIES INDUSTRIAL BAKERIES BAKE-OFF RETAILERS SUPERMARKETS BAKERY PRODUCTS CONSUMERS BAKING TECHNOLOGY Market - Part 8 BAKERY PRODUCTS Market - Part 5 BAKERY OVEN Market - Part 7 Page 6 of 57 2.