About
The Voice of the Baking Industry Since 1897
Annual Report
The 2021 Annual Report interactively walks through the accomplishments ABA made together with its Members during an incredibly challenging time. Please take a few minutes to see the highlights from an intense, emotional, and powerful year. To see the interactive elements, click around the pages to see more videos, photos, webinars, and podcasts.
The 2021 Annual Report interactively walks through the accomplishments ABA made together with its Members during an incredibly challenging time. Please take a few minutes to see the highlights from an intense, emotional, and powerful year. To see the interactive elements, click around the pages to see more videos, photos, webinars, and podcasts.
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.
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 $154 billion in economic activity annually and employs almost 800,000 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 $154 billion in economic activity annually and employs almost 800,000 highly skilled people.
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.
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.
