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Sterilized spices in Ready To Cook meals
Interview with Dominika Gawłowicz-Cebula, specialist in taste mixes development.
- We have recently discussed the dynamically developing Convenience food trend. Ready To Cook is a category of this trend. Is it very popular with customers?
- Ready To Cook products are complete meals properly seasoned and prepared, requiring at home only heat treatment specified by the manufacturer. And it is true, this type of assortment has definitely recorded increase in sales in recent times.
Alginates – new functions, new applications, part II
Interview with Tomasz Duda, Product Manager.
- A month ago we started talking about alginate casings. We already know that they are a very convenient and cost-effective solution for manufactures. What are their advantages for the consumer?
- Customers’ expectations regarding thick sausages and “Kabanos” types of sausages keep on evolving. In addition to such obvious categories as the taste and type of stuffing, there are new expectations that are very difficult or even impossible to meet when using other types of casings.
High-performance brines – INNOVATION, COST-EFFECTIVENESS, SAFETY
Interview with Michał Majchrzak, Key Account Manager
- The issue of brines used in the meat industry has always raised considerable emotions. But modern mixes are a completely different type of functional mixes than those used just a few years ago.
- Yes, indeed, the mixes currently used in manufacturing is a new era of brines. Today, customers are much more aware of their choices, pay great attention to product composition, carefully read labels.
Not all brines are created equal
An interview with Cezary Czech, the Manager of the Functional Blends Development Department
- Customers believe that the brine used in the production of cure meats is pure evil. Is that really true?
- Brines have been used for centuries. After all, the traditional method of curing meat is nothing other than using cover functional blends.
Alginate casings - new possibilities, new applications!
Interview with Tomasz Duda, Product Manager
- We talked about alginate casings almost a year ago. What has changed during this time?
- Together with our R&D department, we work on ideas to create solutions for new alginate casings and ready products.
BIO certificate
Interview with Anna Kajser, Deputy Officer for Quality, Auditor
- In the last months of 2019, did Promar obtain a new type of certificate?
- Yes, indeed, as of mid-October we hold a BIO certificate issued for three products from the breadcrumb group.
Promar for the Fish Industry
Interview with Dorota Krzemińska, Regional Sales Manager.
- As the Regional Sales Manager responsible for sales in the Northern Region, you have paid particular attention to the Fish Industry.
- Yes, it came about naturally. My region is definitely leading in this industry. I think it's natural and it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Veg – a hot trend with a future
Interview with Paweł Sakowski, Key Accounts Manager
- Recently, while browsing the industry press, various reports from the food market, we often come across advice for manufacturers and traders to focus in particular on the product range addressed to vegetarians and vegans.
Aromatic and safe – Polish Herbs
Interview with Joanna Toborowicz, Purchasing Specialist at Promar
There are many suppliers of spices, herbs, and dehydrated vegetables on the Polish market, offering goods of various quality. The problem is that the vast majority of these herbs are imported from North Africa or Asia, and these are not as good as those grown in Poland.
Laying the foundation stone for the Academy of Taste
The ceremony of signing the Erection Act and laying the foundation stone for the Academy of Taste took place on September 3 in Zawiercie in Promar.
PROMAR for WOSP
Interview with Andrzej Marchewka, President of Promar’s Management Board
For 27 years, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Grand Finale (WOŚP - PL) has been held in early January. How long has Promar been actively supporting the fundraiser by bidding for the Golden Hearts?
Many companies support the WOŚP, but often this is just occasional. I have been bidding for the Golden Hearts as a private donor since 2002 and Promar joined the auctions in 2004. Together, we have been supporting WOŚP for 17 years already, if we include 2019.