Cookie, Cracker, and Pasta Manufacturing

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) manufacturing cookies and crackers; (2) preparing flour and dough mixes and dough from flour ground elsewhere; and (3) manufacturing dry pasta. The establishments in this industry may package the dry pasta they manufacture with other ingredients.

Excluded or separately classified activities

Official Census cross-references identify activities that belong under another North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code.

• Drying and/or dehydrating ingredients and packaging them with purchased dry pasta--are classified in Industry 31142, Fruit and Vegetable Canning, Pickling, and Drying.

  Fruit and Vegetable Canning, Pickling, and Drying31142

• Manufacturing bakery products (e.g., bread, cookies, pies)--are classified in Industry 31181, Bread and Bakery Product Manufacturing;

  Bread and Bakery Product Manufacturing31181

• Manufacturing fresh pasta--are classified in Industry 31199, All Other Food Manufacturing;

  All Other Food Manufacturing31199

• Manufacturing pasta specialties--are classified in Industry Group 3114, Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing;

  Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing3114

• Manufacturing pretzels (except soft)--are classified in Industry 31191, Snack Food Manufacturing;

  Snack Food Manufacturing31191

• Milling flour and preparing flour mixes or doughs--are classified in Industry 31121, Flour Milling and Malt Manufacturing;

  Flour Milling and Malt Manufacturing31121

• Mixing purchased dried and/or dehydrated ingredients with purchased dry pasta--are classified in Industry 31199, All Other Food Manufacturing; and

  All Other Food Manufacturing31199

• Preparing and selling bakery products (e.g., cookies, pretzels) for immediate consumption--are classified in Industry 72251, Restaurants and Other Eating Places;

  Restaurants and Other Eating Places72251

• Retailing bakery products not for immediate consumption made elsewhere--are classified in Industry 44529, Other Specialty Food Retailers;

  Other Specialty Food Retailers44529