About
The Voice of the Baking Industry Since 1897
Delivering Results for Companies Feeding the World
ABA Members produce bread, rolls, cookies, crackers, bagels, sweet goods, tortillas, and many other wholesome, nutritious, baked products feeding America’s families. The baking industry generates more than $153 billion in economic activity annually and employs more than 799,500 highly skilled people.
ABA Members produce bread, rolls, cookies, crackers, bagels, sweet goods, tortillas, and many other wholesome, nutritious, baked products feeding America’s families. The baking industry generates more than $153 billion in economic activity annually and employs more than 799,500 highly skilled people.
Member Driven
ABA Members drive the vision for the future of the baking industry and ABA builds strategy and implements that vision. ABA serves Members by providing critical services while developing and launching aggressive strategic initiatives so our Members can continue doing what they do best: feed the world.
ABA Members drive the vision for the future of the baking industry and ABA builds strategy and implements that vision. ABA serves Members by providing critical services while developing and launching aggressive strategic initiatives so our Members can continue doing what they do best: feed the world.
Annual Report
The American Bakers Association is committed to offering our Members world-class services in government relations, workforce development, and industry solutions. We attempt to be a reflection of our Members, constantly emulating the Power of Bakery. To remember the industry's successes in 2019, please see here ABA's first-ever interactive annual report.
The American Bakers Association is committed to offering our Members world-class services in government relations, workforce development, and industry solutions. We attempt to be a reflection of our Members, constantly emulating the Power of Bakery. To remember the industry's successes in 2019, please see here ABA's first-ever interactive annual report.
Media Center
As the voice of the baking industry, the American Bakers Association plays a critical role in telling the sector's stories. Learn more about ABA's Members and their impact on America's economy and culture in the media center.
As the voice of the baking industry, the American Bakers Association plays a critical role in telling the sector's stories. Learn more about ABA's Members and their impact on America's economy and culture in the media center.
Celebrating baking industry heroes
The American Bakers Association (ABA) will celebrate the bread community in partnership with the Tiptree World Bread Award Heroes. The 2020 awards will recognize the people behind the baked goods: the bakers, millers, farmers, and others in the industry who are going above and beyond to help their community.
Submissions close Sunday, October 8, 2020.
The American Bakers Association (ABA) will celebrate the bread community in partnership with the Tiptree World Bread Award Heroes. The 2020 awards will recognize the people behind the baked goods: the bakers, millers, farmers, and others in the industry who are going above and beyond to help their community.
Submissions close Sunday, October 8, 2020.
ABA's History
The American Bakers Association was founded on Oct. 18, 1897, at the first National Convention of the Master Bakers in Boston.
- The American Bakers Association was incorporated on Nov. 3, 1916, in Chicago.
- During World War II, when high school graduates could not pass their physical examinations, enrichment standards for baked goods were established to provide a vehicle for improved nutrition. ABA’s tagline was “Bread is the Staff of Life.”
- In the 1940s-1950s, ABA focused on the promotion and marketing of bread and baked goods.
- In the 1960s, ABA became more focused on legislative and regulatory policies that impacted the baking industry.
- As the primary lobbying organization for the baking industry, the American Bakers Association moved its headquarters to Washington, DC in the 1970s.
- In 2016, ABA merged with the Biscuit &Cracker Manufacturing Association (B&CMA), welcome a new era as a united baking industry. An added bonus of the merger was the B&CMA's classic and beloved logo "Biscuit Boy." Learn more about him here.
Contact Us
We are an extension of our Members’ businesses – and we are here to help in any way we possibly can.
We are an extension of our Members’ businesses – and we are here to help in any way we possibly can.
