Tray Loss & Prevention To Be Highlighted In ABA Fall Policy Conference

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As a special one hour breakout session during the upcoming ABA Fall Policy Conference, please join in a discussion on a major issue impacting bakers’ bottom lines – the theft of plastic bread trays.

In this important session, Tray Loss and Prevention – Where We Were, Where We Are, What’s Next, ABA members will hear information on the causes of bakery tray loss, and how the industry can work to eradicate an issue that continues to cost bakers millions each year.

Bakery Division Director Glenn Rindfleisch of Rehrig Pacific Company will open the session with a presentation on the causes of loss and how it impacts your bottom line.

The session will continue with a presentation from VP Sales & Marketing JR Paterakis, H&S Bakery, Inc., and the Wolf Security team of Brian Wolf and Adam Lippe, on the successes of the Control of Missing Baskets and Trays (COMBAT) efforts in the Mid-Atlantic region, and ways to expand on them nationwide.

If tray loss is a major issue impacting your business, this breakout is for you!

Crime pays and often pays well.  The costs to business and consumers increases each year.  Businesses have become either tolerant of increased costs due to theft or overwhelmed by where to begin to stop it. Doing nothing is a decision, but it’s unlikely that any business can overlook the mounting losses. Instead, companies can do something with the proper advice from someone to help combat theft. Whether it is site security or professional investigations and consulting, the decision to stand up and fight theft is a promise businesses make to their employees, stakeholders, and consumers. – Wolf Professional Security

Doing nothing about plastic thefts is a statement that encourages more plastic thefts… This will benefit the ABA membership, increase the successes of COMBAT, and allow the professional Wolf investigators to complete our goals. – JR Paterakis, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, H&S Bakery, Inc.

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About the ABA Fall Policy Conference:

The American Bakers Association’s 2015 Fall Policy Conference – an industry event like no other – brings together aspiring leaders to learn about policy issues and get access to consumer trends that give attendees valuable take-aways and enable them to grow professionally. The Policy Conference offers advocacy education, leadership training, Capitol Hill lobbying visits, opportunities to network, and more. The 2015 Conference will take place October 20 – 22, at the Marriott Marquis.  More information and registration can be found at www.americanbakers.org/meetings and #ABAPolCon

About the American Bakers Association:

The American Bakers Association (ABA) is the Washington D.C.-based voice of the wholesale baking industry. Since 1897, ABA has represented the interests of bakers before the U.S. Congress, federal agencies, and international regulatory authorities. ABA advocates on behalf of more than 1000 baking facilities and baking company suppliers. ABA members produce bread, rolls, crackers, bagels, sweet goods, tortillas and many other wholesome, nutritious, baked products for America’s families. The baking industry generates more than $102 billion in economic activity annually and employs more than 706,000 highly skilled people.

Source: American Bakers Association