News & Perspectives

Each month IFMA highlights the newest companies that make up our diverse membership community. This month we welcome our new Manufacturer Members, Okanagan Specialty Fruits and Treehouse Foods. Learn more about what these companies have to offer.

Each month IFMA highlights the newest companies that make up our diverse membership community. This month we welcome our new Manufacturer Member Daimond Foods. Learn more about what this great company has to offer.

Sydney Burtovoy was a 2022 IFMA Education Foundation scholarship recipient. She attended Michigan State University and studied Food Science.

The complicated structure of the B&I ecosystem and how foodservice manufacturers can work within it was the subject of the IFMA Business & Industry (B&I) Live Conversation on June 6, 2023.

Building and maintaining long-term chain restaurant customers was the subject of the IFMA Live Restaurant Conversation on June 8 with members of the IFMA Restaurant Foodservice Leadership Council.

Knowing how they budget can help foodservice manufacturers become part of the story. This was the topic of the IFMA Live Conversation with members of the College & University (C&U) Foodservice Leadership Council on May 25, 2023.

During the March 2023 IFMA COEX event, conference attendees were asked what leadership looks like and there was a real consensus on the elements that make up a good leader.

The essential role played by registered dieticians was the hot topic of the IFMA Live Conversation with members of the Healthcare Foodservice Leadership Council on May 16, 2023.

On Saturday, May 20, over 500 industry leaders gathered to celebrate IFMA’s 69th annual Gold & Silver Plate Awards Celebration, the industry’s longest-standing legacy awards program. The awards ceremony was held in the beautiful Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.