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The IFMA Education Foundation is committed to giving support to qualified culinary, marketing, sales, supply chain and food science students. One of the initiates is having students join us in attendance at IFMA events, giving them an inside look into the foodservice industry. Hear what four students had to say about their experience attending the 2018 Presidents Conference.

Maisie Snyder is a 2017 International Gold & Silver Plate Society stipend recipient. She attends Michigan State University and is majoring in Food Science. Find out what she had to say when we asked her a few questions about her foodservice stipend and future career.

Each month IFMA highlights the newest companies that make up our diverse membership community. This month we are featuring, Blockstyle, Fifteen Agency, Kalustyan and Upfield. You can read on to learn more about each of their organizations.

Establishing strong relationships with your customers is only possible if you have a thorough understanding of their business and needs. Staying in tune with the issues your customers are facing will better enable you to be in the position to provide solutions to their problems. The IFMA Silver Plate Award nomination process can be an incredibly powerful tool. Here are some tips to help you submit a wining nomination!

The 2018 Key Person, Sparkplug and Presidents Awards were presented at IFMA's 56th annual Presidents Conference, Nov. 6th in Phoenix. The recipients represent the most passionate and active professionals throughout the industry and IFMA's membership.

The 12th annual Distributor Awards were presented during IFMA's annual Presidents Conference. These awards acknowledge distributor leadership and overall excellence within the foodservice industry. Sysco, Performance Food Group and Jeff King from Reinhart Foodservice were each honored at the Distributor Awards ceremony in Phoenix. Take a look at their achievements!

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Why Nominate? The Innovation Awards present an outstanding opportunity to recognize excellence within the chain operator community. Nominating an operator has no cost, yet its value is immense.

IFMA in partnership with Kinetic12 and HAVI is proud to announce Supply Chain Optimization 2.0. This initiative utilizes the collaboration of operators, manufacturers and distributors to define collaborative best practices around supply chain visibility through improved tracking, traceability and transparency.