The Small Business Spotlight Awards, introduced in September, honor and celebrate inspiring, unique, and customer-obsessed small businesses selling in Amazon’s stores.

McCormick US Branded Flavor Solutions was honored as Supplier of the Year for the highest level of performance in areas such as sales growth, innovation, service level and overall support of Sysco and its customers.

Founded in 1982, FruitSmart supplies a broad set of juices, concentrates, blends, purees, fibers, seed and seed powders, and other value-added products to food, beverage and flavor companies throughout the United States and internationally through value-added processing of various fruit and vegetable products. 

The North Carolina Food Innovation Lab is a state-of-the-art facility assisting food companies and entrepreneurs in creating the plant-based foods of tomorrow. 

Woods joins Nielsen Global Connect from IBM where she was chief marketing officer for the IBM Partner Ecosystem.

Effective October 1, 2019, all companies and brands of the Food Ingredients Division were brought together in the management board under Dr Matthias Moser, who already heads the companies Hydrosol, SternEnzym, OlbrichtArom and hs Additives. 

DSM has made Personalized Nutrition a key pillar in its nutrition strategy; this latest move unites previously announced partnerships and investments across the necessary key capabilities including personalized nutrition delivery platforms such as Panaceutics, Mixfit and Tespo.

Moving Mountains’ plant-powered meat requires less land, less water, and produces less greenhouse emissions than animal protein. It looks, smells, and tastes as indulgent as traditional meat, so it can be enjoyed guilt-free.

The $50 million fermentation facility is located in Blair, Neb., and is operated by Cargill. It produces highly sought-after, sweet-tasting molecules, such as Reb M and Reb D used to make EverSweet, and gives food and beverage manufacturers an even more scalable, sustainable and low cost-in-use solution than if these molecules were extracted from the stevia leaf.

In the 10th year of FABI Awards, 2020 Award recipients will enjoy enhanced opportunities to reach attendees in addition to increased awareness and booth traffic.