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  • George Gellert
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: George Gellert, Atalanta Corporation

    George Gellert has spent nearly six decades working in specialty foods, building one of the largest, most diverse companies in the industry.
  • Hooper and Reese
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: Allison Hooper and Bob Reese Vermont Creamery

    When Allison Hooper and Bob Reese began working together in 1984, there were only a handful of goat cheese producers in the entire country.
  • Paula Lambert
    Awards By: George Hajjar April 28, 2024

    2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Paula Lambert, Mozzarella Company

    Even as a young person, industry veteran Paula Lambert was interested in cheese.
  • Dennis Deschaines headshot
    Awards By: Julie Gallagher April 28, 2024

    2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Dennis Deschaine, Al Dente Pasta Company

    Dennis Deschaine and his wife Monique sold their first bag of Al Dente Pasta at the Ann Arbor Art Fair in Michigan in 1981.
  • Jack Acree headshot
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Hall of Fame Inductee: Jack Acree, Saffron Road Foods

  • Bob Bruno headshot

    2024 Hall of Fame Inductee: Bob Bruno, RJ Bruno International

    Many of the Italian specialty foods that are ubiquitous in the U.S. today owe their success at least in part to Bob Bruno.
  • Gary Chandler headshot
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Hall of Fame Inductee: Gary Chandler, Chandler Food Sales

    For Gary Chandler, the specialty food industry has always been very much a family business.
  • Cristiano Creminelli headshot
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Hall of Fame Inductee: Cristiano Creminelli, Creminelli Fine Meats/Charcuterie Artisans

    Cristiano Creminelli’s family has been creating artisanal meats and cheeses for generations in Italy.
  • Phil Gatto headshot
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Hall of Fame Inductee: Phil Gatto, True Story Foods

    Phil Gatto has made a career out of doing what he loves.
  • Ron Tanner headshot
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Hall of Fame Inductee: Ron Tanner, Tanner Food Group

    Ron Tanner has long been one of the guiding forces of the SFA, and his influence is evident throughout the association’s operations.
  • HEB distribution campus

    H-E-B Plans Distribution Campus

  • milk in a glass
    Industry Operations April 26, 2024

    20 Percent of Milk Samples Contain Traces of Bird Flu

    About one in five retail samples of milk tested by the FDA contain bird flu virus fragments, it reported Thursday, with a greater proportion coming from milk in areas with infected dairy cow herds.
  • various snacks
    Industry Operations By: Mark Hamstra April 26, 2024

    Consumers Balance Nutrition, Indulgence in Snack Behaviors: Report

    Opportunities for innovation in the snacking category remain wide open as consumers continue to nosh throughout the day.
  • vegan burger

    Vegan Fast Food on the Rise

    The vegan fast food market is expected to be valued at $18.9 billion in 2024 and grow to $28.2 billion by 2034, according to Future Market Insights.
  • mompreneurs
    Industry Operations April 26, 2024

    French Broad Chocolate Flavors Inspired By Local ‘Mompreneurs’

    French Broad Chocolate is offering a new collection of bonbons celebrating mom-founded businesses.