2018 Leadership Award Winners
Leadership & Excellence: McCormick & Company
Leadership in Sustainability: Clif Bar & Company
Emerging Leadership in Innovation: Apeel Sciences
Read the 2018 Rabobank Leadership Awards Press ReleaseRabobank’s overarching Award for Excellence in Food and Ag Leadership recognizes a large-scale market leader in North America that has demonstrated great and lasting impact in its sector. The winner will have:
Achieved significant success as a leader in building, rejuvenating or expanding a business in food, beverages, or agribusiness supply chain;
Demonstrated great agility in response to COVID, with respect to production capacity, products and solutions, or contributions to pandemic mitigation and positive societal impact;
Taken responsibility for the wellbeing of its employees, customers, and local communities and demonstrated environmental stewardship, model corporate citizenship, and a track record of meeting social commitments;
Been recognized as setting standards of excellence within the industry;
Demonstrated diversity in composition of its governance body
The Rabobank Award for Leadership in Sustainability recognizes a high-impact organization that has achieved unique steps towards business, environmental, social and governance sustainability. The winner will have:
Developed programs and/or initiatives aimed at improving business, environmental, social and governance sustainability;
Demonstrated alignment between sustainability strategy and core business priorities with defined and transparent sustainability guidelines and commitments;
Maintained or increased sustainability standards and enacted exemplary social or charitable initiatives in response to the Covid-19 crisis and social justice-related causes;
Been a model corporate citizen and recognized as setting standards of excellence within the industry;
Demonstrated diversity in composition of its governance body;
Demonstrated strong financial performance
The Rabobank Award for Emerging Leadership in Innovation recognizes a fast-growing company that addresses issues in the food and agribusiness space in a new and innovative way. The winner will have:
Operated in the industry for 10 years or less;
Demonstrated a distinct innovation in the food and agriculture supply chain and/or offered new choice, value and convenience to customers;
Made a positive contribution to COVID mitigation efforts via pivoting offerings and/or contributing to communities towards COVID relief efforts;
Been a model corporate citizen and demonstrated commitments to diversity and inclusion initiatives;
Demonstrated strong financial performance/investor interest and potential for market expansion
Read the 2019 Rabobank Leadership Awards Press Release
Leadership & Excellence:
Wegman’s
Leadership in Sustainability:
Grupo Bimbo
Emerging Leadership in Innovation:
Pivot Bio
Leadership & Excellence: McCormick & Company
Leadership in Sustainability: Clif Bar & Company
Emerging Leadership in Innovation: Apeel Sciences
Read the 2018 Rabobank Leadership Awards Press ReleaseLeadership & Excellence: Bon Appétit Management Company
Leadership in Sustainability: Nature’s Path Foods
Emerging Leadership in Innovation: MycoTechnology
Leadership & Excellence: AGCO
Leadership in Sustainability: Midwestern BioAg
Emerging Leadership in Innovation: BluWrap