Spirit of Innovation Awards

The Spirit of Innovation Award is a unique opportunity to acknowledge your outstanding products development team, while providing your product and company with priceless worldwide exposure.

The Spirit of Innovation Award was conceived because both Prepared Foods and Ventura Foods are fiercely committed to the ideal that innovation is one-part inspirational teamwork, one-part ideas.

The embodiment of that ideal is the Spirit of Innovation Award, recognizing and celebrating these exceptional and innovative product development teams for their pioneering work on exciting new products.

Two Spirit of Innovation Awards will be presented at Prepared Foods' 2007 New Product Conference. One in the Retail category, the second in Food Service. Companies and individuals are encouraged to submit their nomination for a new food product introduced during 2006-2007.

2007 AWARD WINNERS

 Retail

1st Place RW Delights for Heavenly Souffle
2nd Place Cathead Foods for Go Stax Microwaveable Pancakes
3rd Place Oscar Mayer for Deli Creations Hot Sandwich Melts

Foodservice

1st Place Multy Grain Foods for Vegan Crab Style Cake
2nd Place Phillips Foods for Perfectly Seasoned Fish
3rd Place Jack in the Box for Sirloin Burger

Scholarship Recipients

Retail  RW Delights - Artisan Baking Center, The Consortium for Worker Education
Foodservice  Multy Grain Foods - The Culinary Institute of America


2006 AWARD WINNERS

 Retail

1st Place FGF Brands for Naan bread
2nd Place General Mills for Warm Delights microwave brownie
3rd Place Liberty Richter for Ka-Me microwave Pad Thai

Foodservice

1st Place Hormel for a reformulated, lower-sodium line of luncheon meats
2nd Place Advance Food Company for a portion-controlled country-fried steak
3rd Place ConAgra Foods (Lamb Weston) for zero-trans-fat French fries

Scholarship Recipients

FoodService Hormel - Ohio State University
Retail FGF Brands - University of Guelph

A Prepared Foods expert panel will select the Spirit of Innovation Award winners from nominations submitted. Submissions will be evaluated equally on two key criteria:

1. The teams' level of ingenuity
2. The products' level of innovation

If you would like to submit a nomination for the next Spirit of Innovation Award, please download the form here and fax to Prepared Foods, Att: William Roberts at 248-786-1442

Please click on the Spirit of Innovation logo above to find more information or click this link: http://www.preparedfoods.com/CDA/HTML/032901cb491e7010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0

The next Spirit of Innovation Ceremony will take place:

To find out more about the 2007 New Products Conference, or to register, please click here
Prepared Foods' New Products Conference is the food & beverage industry's premier event, where R&D, Marketing and Executive Management professionals gather to gain valuable insights into new food and beverage products and exciting new consumer trends around the world.
For 3 ½ action-packed days the New Products Conference provides a forum of world-class speakers on new product trends, a vital opportunity to re-energize your creativity, and a most productive networking event.