Rabobank North America Leadership Awards

Rabobank’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