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Explore cutting-edge food and beverage product innovation with the 2024-2025 Spirit of Innovation award winners. Since 2003, these awards have celebrated innovation leaders, food scientists, and chefs who shape the product development process.

State of Innovation: Where Trends Meet Tastes

This year’s award celebration opens with a 30-minute “state of innovation” discussion between Prepared Foods Chief Editor Bob Garrison and Sally Lyons Wyatt.

Listen in as Garrison and Lyons Wyatt discuss new product innovation strategy, Circana’s New Produce Pacesetters, and explore what links those trends to Prepared Foods’ Spirit of Innovation honorees.

Next: Meet the Winners!

Watch as Spirit of Innovation honorees share product details and tell their own stories—in their own words. It’s a rare, behind-the-scenes opportunity to hear directly from company founders, R&D team members and other executives.

Award categories include:

• Judges’ Selection / Most Innovative
• Retail Food
• Retail Beverage
• Foodservice Front of House (addressing consumer trends)
• Foodservice Back of House (addressing operator needs)
• Alternative Channel (Retail In-Store / C-Store)

Tune In to Learn …

… innovation strategy; what works & why

… next year’s top trends

… how SOI winners turned trends and tastes into new products

Prepared Foods is proud to acknowledge the critical operational and judging role of Charlie Baggs Culinary Innovations in Spirit of Innovation competitions.