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Pune’ businesses bag innovation awards at Mega Kamani Bakery Challenge
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Friday, 25 January, 2019, 14 : 00 PM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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Pradeep Sweets and Ismail Bakery, both from Pune, bagged awards in the health and innovation categories, respectively, at the maiden Mega Kamani Bakery Challenge, organised at India’s leading specialty oils and fats manufacturer, AAK Kamani’s Customer Innovation Centre, a centre for co-development in Mumbai, that collaborates with customers to achieve their business goals.
The Challenge - a grand finale, in which the winners from Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolhapur competed - provided a platform to all the participants to innovate and promote healthy products, and was judged by eminent chefs from the industry, including Suresh Thampy of Holiday Inn Mumbai, Mohammed Imran of Leela Hotels and Vikas Sharma of Travel Food Services Private Ltd.
Commenting on the success of the event, Arun Varma, vice-president, sales and marketing, AAK Kamani, said, “We have always been a believer of healthy living and building a fitter generation. We, at AAK Kamani, strongly believe in being a co-development partner of our customers to improve and innovate their products by providing expert solutions.”
“It gave us great pleasure to host the first Mega Kamani Bakery Challenge event in Mumbai for all the winners to compete and create innovative and healthy products. The Mega Kamani Bakery Challenge was an avenue we were eagerly looking forward to. It recognized some of the brightest talents in our industry and pushed them to think beyond their routine work to create innovative products,” he added.
Commenting on their win in the health category, Nikhil Bansal of Pradeep Sweets said, “Being recognized as a winner of the Mega Kamani Bakery Challenge is a great accomplishment for us. AAK Kamani has successfully provided us a platform that motivated us to achieve milestones in reinventing healthy food. We are extremely thankful to the entire team of AAK Kamani.”
Commenting on their win in the Innovation category, Musa Ansari of Ismail Bakery said, “Today our customers are on a constant hunt for innovative offerings.”
“The Mega Kamani Bakery Challenge is a great learning experience, and we would like to thank AAK Kamani for their continuous efforts to help the baking community innovate and grow our business,” he added.
The short-listed products were judged by the jury on the parameters of taste and texture, design and production, health and innovation.
“It’s a great initiative by AAK Kamani to promote innovation and recognise the talented bakers for creating healthier variations of products at Mega Kamani Bakery Challenge,” said Vivek Kadam, executive pastry chef, ITC Maratha Mumbai.
“We are happy to be associated with Mega Kamani Bakery Challenge and appreciate the efforts put up by the entire team of AAK Kamani,” he added.
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