This award honors a refrigerated foods processor for its year-over-year growth and leadership in product sales, packaging, distribution strategies, food safety, new product development, plant expansions, sustainability programs, and more. 

Led by CEO Theresa Motter, Van’s Kitchen has weathered the COVID pandemic to sign over 10 new distributor, supermarket and grocery store accounts, increasing the company’s client base by 28%. Van’s Kitchen has spent the past year fulfilling more orders, marking a 40% increase in sales year-over-year.

Take a look inside Greenleaf Foods’ processing plants to see how Lightlife and Field Roast products are made, packaged and distributed.

How Greenleaf Foods has evolved its Lightlife and Field Roast brands to stand out in a crowded plant-based foods category.

Good Foods was an early adapter of HPP technology, making it one of the pillars of the business from the beginning.

Find out how this producer of better-for-you guacamole, deli salads and plant-based refrigerated dips uses HPP to enforce food safety, extended shelf life and more.

Take a tour of Bonduelle Fresh Americas’ 472,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Irwindale, Calif., which encompasses the company’s patented triple-wash processing system.

Discover how the pioneer of refrigerated salad kits continues to deliver on-trend, plant-based products that meet today’s—and tomorrow’s—consumer demands.