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        BC Food & Beverage Award nominations have officially opened! Celebrate the achievements of colleagues who are breaking ground in the food and beverage space in our community. Tell us about them by nominating this person and/or their product(s) for a BC Food and Beverage Award. Award …

May 15 is the deadline for small businesses to submit their products for consideration RICHMOND, B.C.- May 12, 2020 – Since the launch of London Drugs’ Local Central on April 28, more than 1200 Western Canadian companies have submitted products for consideration to be made available on London Drugs’ store …

BCFB Virtual Town Hall – Workplace Health and Safety COVID-19: Preventing exposure to COVID-19 at your business Hosted by BC Food & Beverage, with WorksafeBC Thursday, May 14th, 2020 from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM Register today: https://my.demio.com/ref/vzoio163OsmjPmsA Dear BCFB Community, Join us and Megan Martin from WorkSafeBC for an …

Coresight Research has just released its 2020 report on the state of U.S. online grocery. In it, you’ll find: The consumer’s move to online grocery quantified, and how much is COVID-19 driven Most Shopped Online Retailers and Where Amazon Stands Percentage of Respondents Now Buying Groceries Online Comparison of Online …

KB Honey is still open and supplying high quality honey to as many stores as possible as well as offering curb side pickup at their Langley warehouse. They are stepping up their safety procedures to include: Additional sanitization of our facility throughout the day on top of our regular cleanliness …

VANCOUVER, BC (Jan 31, 2020) – The Ocean Legacy Foundation, a Canadian non-profit organization with the goal to end ocean plastic waste, today made an official response to the Draft Science Assessment of Plastic Pollution conducted by Environment and Climate Change Canada and Health Canada, which was released yesterday, January 30, …

B.C.-based company wins big in fall packaging competitions for corrugated, folding carton and labels. VANCOUVER, B.C., September, 2019 — Great Little Box Company Ltd. (GLBC) announced today that it has won 1st place and the coveted Judge’s Choice award in two categories at the AICC’s 2019 Independent Packaging Design Competition.   This biannual event …

Newark, Del. — At the most recent Produce Marketing Association (PMA) Board of Directors meeting in San Francisco, California, Dr. Bob Whitaker, PMA Chief Science & Technology Officer, announced his retirement from the organization in January 2020. When Whitaker joined the organization in 2008, he was PMA’s first chief science and …

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Bert Boyd, longtime sales and marketing leader for McFarland, California-based Pretty Lady Vineyards, died Feb. 12. He was 67. Boyd began his produce career at the age of 16 when his mother decided it was time he went to work. She informed him that she had gotten him a job as …