Rabobank, a global food and agribusiness bank founded 125 years ago and a financier of the energy transition, announced the recipients of its annual prestigious Rabobank North America Leadership Awards. The Wonderful Company, one of the leading agriculture, real estate, and consumer packaged goods companies in the United States, was honored with the 2024 Rabobank Award for Leadership in Sustainability.

This Leadership Award recognizes a high-impact organization that has transformed agriculture through its unique products and has encouraged greater business, environmental, social and governance sustainability. The Wonderful Company – a $6 billion privately held enterprise dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world – was celebrated among 400 guests on Thursday, Dec. 5, during Rabobank's annual Leadership Summit in New York City. The global company's portfolio of iconic brands includes FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, Teleflora, and JUSTIN, Landmark, and Lewis Cellars wines.

"Rabobank is thrilled to celebrate The Wonderful Company for exemplifying the intricate interplay between agribusiness and sustainability," said Terryn Lawrence, chief sustainability officer for Rabobank North America. "The Wonderful Company is a transformative leader by addressing climate change starting with its operations and business practices, investing in critical research while also supporting its community."

For the past 50 years, The Wonderful Company and its co-owners, Lynda and Stewart Resnick, have focused on producing healthy foods through sustainable farming and business practices. The Resnicks, along with their foundation and company, have invested more than $2.5 billion in education, health and wellness, community development, and sustainability initiatives across California's Central Valley, Fiji, and the world.

Highlighting the Resnicks' extraordinary philanthropy and, specifically, their support of sustainability initiatives, last month marked the dedication ceremony for the opening of the Resnick Sustainability Center at Caltech – the result of the Resnicks' unprecedented $750 million gift, the largest ever gift for sustainability research in Caltech's history and the second largest to any US academic institution. The Resnick Sustainability Center focuses on innovative research projects that tackle issues of water, energy, food, and waste in a world confronting rapid climate change.

During the Leadership Summit, The Wonderful Company was recognized along with the recipient of the Rabobank Award for Excellence in Corporate Leadership, Lineage, the world's largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT. The 2024 Rabobank Award for Emerging Leadership in Innovation was presented to Flashfood, an app for affordable groceries.

The finalists were evaluated by an independent panel of judges representing industry, academia, non-profits, media and the investment ecosystem. Award recipients were selected based on a rigorous set of criteria distinctive to each category.