Nosh’s annual Best Of awards recognize the year’s standout individuals, brands and products from across all categories of the packaged food industry.
Our honorees demonstrated resilience and drive in the face of unrelenting challenges that have unsettled the market and shuttered a notable number of businesses this year. Amid financial and political turbulence, continued supply chain disruption, and persistent inflation, these folks continued to operate and innovate with an eye toward building a more sustainable and equitable food system.
The top awards, Person of the Year and Brand of the Year, are reserved for those creating lasting and substantial change over the past 12 months and beyond. In 2024, Miguel Garza, co-founder and CEO of Siete Foods, culminated a decade of leading his family’s heritage-inspired Mexican-American food brand with its $1.2 billion sale to PepsiCo.
Our Brand of the Year, Good Culture, is at the forefront of a national obsession with cottage cheese. Its efforts to reimagine a staid diet staple into a pasture-raised protein powerhouse catapulted the company and category into the stratosphere.
Out of hundreds of nominees, the winners of Nosh Best of 2024 awards are changemakers, innovators and thought leaders, selected in recognition of their continued efforts to nourish the world.
Reserved for the individual whose work throughout the year has created lasting, substantial, positive change through innovation and high quality.
Reserved for the company whose work throughout the year has created lasting, substantial, positive change through innovation and high quality.
This award is given to a company that is a pioneer and making waves within the food industry by doing things differently and enacting change.
Companies whose work has great potential to shift or open categories, create new ideas about products or brands, and have shown growth that indicates they will have an enduring presence in the industry.
Lines or SKUs that have been introduced in the previous year that have at least one outstanding quality in terms of taste, design, cause, formulation, or that generate interest over their disruptive potential.
The brand or product with innovative package design that stands out amongst the rest on shelf, which can include either a new product on the market or a brand that has undergone a major packaging refresh.
Awarded to the company that broke through the noise with its marketing campaign which grabbed the attention of both consumers and industry peers.
