PHOTO GALLERY: UGI Supplier Dinner and Awards gala
See photos from this year's event
United Grocers Inc. (UGI)'s annual Supplier Dinner and Awards brought the industry together on Thursday (Oct. 26).
The event, held at the Toronto Congress Centre, recognized a number of businesses. See this year's award winners below:
- Exceptional Retailer Service: Nestle Canada Inc.
- Best Services and Equipment Supplier: Sigma Stretch Film
- Best Grocery Supplier: PepsiCo/Frito Lay Canada
- Best Private Brand Supplier: Sky Blue Water
- Best Fresh Department: Sofina Foods
- Best Innovative Supplier: Old Dutch Foods
Television sportscaster Kate Beirness served as host for the event.
Click through the gallery below to see photos from the 2023 gala. Photography by Roger Yip
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L-R: Carlton Cards’ Rod Sturtridge and Brad Van Laare with FHCP’s Michael Graydon -
L-R: UGI’s Michael Forgione, Kruger Products’ Michel Manseau and Georgia Main’s Gary Sorenson -
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L-R: Canadian Grocer’s Vanessa Peters, UGI’s Forgione and Acosta Sales and Marketing’s Bill Ivany -
L-R: Kruger Products’ Steve Lamontagne, CFIG’s Laura Collaton and Kruger Products’ Manseau -
L-R: Kruger Products’ Manseau, Retail Council of Canada’s Diane Brisebois and CFIG’s Collaton -
Conagra Foods’ Melissa Martin McGraw (left) and Nestle Canada’s Greg Coles (right) -
Conagra Foods’ team. L-R: Jack Nicholl, Karen Demetriou, Elise Nicholson, Leslie Mackay and Anoopjit Sahota -
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Ron Welke (left) and David Chatyrbok (right), Federated Co-operatives -
FHCP’s Errol Cerit (left) and Conagra Foods’ Leslie Mackay (right) -
L-R: Kraft Heinz Canada’s Chris Hackbart and Sofia Thompson with Georgia Main’s Sorenson -
L-R: Canadian Grocer’s Peters with Clorox Company of Canada’s Rhonda Mitchell and Dan Bajor -
L-R: Conagra Foods’ Nicholson, Canadian Grocer’s Sandra Parente, UGI’s Forgione, Conagra Foods’ Nick Abdo -
A. Lassonde’s Claire Bara (left) and Jennifer Allchin (right) -
UGI’s Forgione -
L-R: PepsiCo Foods Canada’s Lance Wade and Kevin Garretson with Associated Grocers’ Alan Martinson, Federated Co-operatives’ Bria Woods and host Kate Bierness -
L-R: Federated Co-op’s Mišo Acimovic, Sofina Foods’ Mark Smellie, Core-Mark’s Chuck Arcand and Bierness -
L-R: Associated Grocers’ Brody Powell, Old Dutch Foods’ Matthew Finniss, Old Dutch Foods’ Dave Gorgenyi, Old Dutch Foods’ Scott Keleman, Federated Co-operatives Lorry Noble and Bierness -
L-R: Federated Co-operatives Tim Lalach, The Northwest Company’s Charlene Glennson, Sky Blue Water’s Neal Dilawri and Bierness -
L-R: Pattison Food Group’s Troy Dewinetz, Core-Mark Calgary’s John Carbone, Sigma Stretch Film’s Erik Tremblay and Bierness -
L-R: Freson Market’s Mike Lovsin, Nestle Canada’s Coles, Nestle Canada’s Darcy Bristol, Federated Co-operatives’ Welke and Bierness
