4 Good Reasons to Invest in Baking and Pastry Making

 

Food businesses are among the most in-demand and profitable businesses. With increased awareness about a healthy lifestyle, people are becoming more health-conscious and prefer baked products over fried ones. Consequently, demand for baked products such as cakes, cookies, etc. is rising sharply and the bakery industry is growing tremendously.

Another clear trend that has come up in the bakery industry is the preference for lighter and healthier foods. The Bakery sector is the largest of all India's food processing sectors. A report released by leading market research company IMARC in March 2019 started that the Indian Bakery markets reached a value of $ 7.22 billion in 2018. Moreover, the introduction of value-added bakery products is giving a boost to market growth.

Apart from this, busy lifestyles, changing eating habits and western influence has reflected in a strong demand for bakery products in India. The rise of diabetes in the country has also led to a rise in the demand for sugar-free and healthy bakery products. Hence, it is quite clear that the bakery and the pastry-making industry are in great demand, and investing in this industry is worth it.

Here are some more reasons to invest in bakery and pastry-making business:-


1. Flexible Schedule

You have the ease of working as per your wish and timings. If you want to run your bakery all day long you can have bakers on the job at all hours. This can allow you to schedule your shifts in whatever way you find most convenient.

2. Enhances Physical Fitness

If physical fitness is important to you, baking can help keep you in shape. Bakers have to lift and move around heavy sacks of flour and other ingredients, all the while working next to a hot oven. This is an exercise in endurance, and you may end up stronger and fitter as a result of it.

3. Baked Items Have a Sustainable Market

It is rightly said that 'one eats with eyes first'.

A bakery is one store that is hard to resist because bread, cake, and pastries are everyone’s comfort food. People of all ages eat bread. Thus, they patronize the bakery in their area. Consequently, you can develop loyal customers who, by word of mouth, spread the good news about your products.


4.  Potential for Growth

You have the opportunity to move into a larger area or to add on to your present facility.

Even if you don’t enlarge the physical size of your bakery, you can increase the number of products that you offer and the number of existing products.


All in all, the article aims at offering some good pointers to invest in the bakery and pastry-making industry.

Undoubtedly, this industry offers a good ROI (Return on Investment).


Written By: Prachi Raheja

Edited by - Maryam Salim