Prepared Foods Honors R&D Teams, New Foods & Drinks
Leading R&D, innovation title names 16th annual “Spirit of Innovation” award winners
In advance of its annual New Products Conference, Prepared Foods (www.PreparedFoods.com) is pleased to announce the 2017-2018 winners of its “Spirit of Innovation” (SOI) new product awards. In its 16th year, the SOI program is unique in that it not only recognizes noteworthy new products—but the many team members behind the scenes.
“Prepared Foods reaches and serves all those food and beverage manufacturing professionals involved in the new product development cycle. These functional leaders are those in marketing, sales and consumer insights, R&D, innovation, culinary, purchasing and packaging,” notes Bob Garrison, Prepared Foods Editor-in-Chief. “In our Spirit of Innovation judging, we consider much more than just initial sales results. We’re look to reward entire new product teams for collaborating to identify and address market gaps—across all retail, foodservice and alternative channels. We believe our 2017-2018 honorees have developed some of most unique new products with equally compelling stories about product development.”