NOSH’s annual Best Of awards honor the individuals, brands and products that have demonstrated excellence during the year and resonance that will extend far beyond the last twelve months. We celebrate the opportunity to use our platform to highlight these companies, people, and ideas.
As consumers returned to brick and mortar stores and financial concerns loomed large, these winners represent the people and companies who have pushed ahead in 2022: bettering their teams, improving their growth, exploring creative ideas or putting mission first. To that end, 2022 sees NOSH adding two new categories of awards. Our Emerging Brands are early-stage or emerging companies whose work shows great potential to shift or open categories and whose efforts have already shown indications they will have an enduring presence in the industry. Meanwhile, our Cause-Based Initiative winner represents a mission-driven effort to better the CPG industry and the lives of those involved.
The highest awards, Brand of the Year and Person of the Year, are reserved for companies and individuals whose work throughout the year has created lasting, substantial, positive change through innovation and community engagement. In 2022 the team at Partake Foods not only built out a wider portfolio, inked impressive co-branding deals, and saw large distribution gains, but also started a mentoring program for college students at HBCU’s who are interested in the CPG industry. Meanwhile, Mason Dixie founder and CEO Ayeshah Abuelhiga has led the charge when it comes to promoting maintaining diverse hiring practices, in addition to co-founding Project Potluck, an organization helping “People of Color thrive in the CPG industry.”
For all of these reasons, and many more, out of a pool of hundreds of nominated brands, we have selected the winners for this year’s NOSH Best of 2022 Awards in recognition of their continued efforts to improve our food system, grocery store shelves and communities -- one bite at a time.
Brand of the Year is reserved for companies whose work throughout the year has created lasting, substantial, positive change through innovation and community engagement
Brand of the Year is reserved for individuals whose work throughout the year has created lasting, substantial, positive change through innovation and community engagement
Our Cause-Based Initiative winner represents a mission-driven effort to better the CPG industry and the lives of those involved
Our Emerging Brands are early-stage or emerging companies whose work shows great potential to shift or open categories and whose efforts have already shown indications they will have an enduring presence in the industry.