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Product Development
Concept development, benchmarking, formulation, reformulation, reverse engineering and product optimization.
Bakery Innovation Group
R&D • Scale-Up • CommercializationFrom Bench to Production.
Make your next product a BIG success.
Your BIG Ideas Need BIG Support.
We help food brands and bakery manufacturers develop, troubleshoot, scale and commercialize products built for real-world production.
Product DevelopmentFormulation & ReformulationProcess OptimizationScale-Up & Plant TrialsCommercialization
Discuss a Project →What BIG Does
Great products have to do more than taste good.
They have to run.
A successful commercial product has to survive the transition from the development bench to production equipment, processing, packaging and distribution. Bakery Innovation Group bridges that gap.
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Process & Troubleshooting
Identify and solve formulation, processing, quality and manufacturing challenges.
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Scale-Up & Plant Trials
Translate bench formulations into robust, repeatable commercial manufacturing processes.
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Commercialization
Ingredient sourcing, specifications, SOPs, co-manufacturer support and production launch.
The BIG Program™
Have a BIG idea?
A defined five-stage development pathway that keeps technical decisions, manufacturing realities and commercialization requirements aligned from day one.
01 — DISCOVER
Define the product, benchmark, technical requirements and commercial objectives.
02 — DEVELOP
Formulation, prototypes, ingredient selection and iterative testing.
03 — VALIDATE
Confirm product performance, processing parameters and manufacturing requirements.
04 — SCALE
Pilot and plant trials, process optimization and production troubleshooting.
05 — COMMERCIALIZE
Final formulation, specifications, SOPs and manufacturing handoff.
Who We Work With
Technical support for food businesses at every stage of growth.
Emerging Food BrandsEstablished ManufacturersStartups & EntrepreneursCo-ManufacturersIngredient CompaniesPrivate LabelFoodservice
Technical Leadership
Two development perspectives. One commercial objective.
Barry Horn
Principal Product Developer & Commercialization Expert
Barry specializes in translating bakery concepts into commercially viable products. His hands-on experience spans bakery R&D, formulation, reverse engineering, manufacturing, process optimization, plant trials, scale-up and commercialization.
His focus is developing products that perform on the bench, survive scale-up and run consistently in production.
FORMULATION • SCALE-UP • PROCESS OPTIMIZATION • COMMERCIALIZATION
Yoshi Kawano
Lead Product Developer & Quality Assurance
Yoshi brings many years of hands-on bakery creation and innovation experience, supported by bakery studies at George Brown College and experience across both retail and commercial bakery environments.
At BIG, she brings the product and quality lens to development—bench testing, sensory evaluation, production consistency and quality throughout commercialization.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT • BENCH TESTING • PRODUCT QUALITY • QA
Start a Project
Let’s make your BIG idea work.
Developing something new? Fighting a production problem? Preparing for a plant trial? Tell us where the project stands and what you need to solve.
Call 437-261-2359 · Email hello@bakeryinnovationgroup.com