Pure Flavor receives FMI’s Gold Plate Award for Together campaign

With national initiatives being created across the food industry to encourage more family meals, the FMI (Food Marketing Institute) Foundation recently announced its 2023 Gold Plate Award winners, highlighting outstanding family meal programs and campaigns implemented by the food industry consisting of retailers, manufacturers and community collaborators. In the category of Manufacturer, greenhouse fruit and vegetable company Pure Flavor won the Gold Plate Award for its Together campaign, which supported FMI’s National Family Meals Month this past September.

“The Gold Plate Awards are a vivid celebration of the food industry's dedication to promoting family meals,” said David Fikes, executive director of the FMI Foundation. “Through diverse initiatives like healthy family meals, celebrating cultural cuisines, and more, this award highlights the industry's unwavering commitment to fostering family togetherness at home.”

Pure Flavor’s Together campaign was strategically designed to bring awareness to the idea that together, families can be as diverse and varied as the food that they share around their tables. The notion of together can extend beyond immediate family to friends, neighbors, roommates and even special furry friends. The theme of Cook Together – Eat Together – Grow Together was at the core of the promotional campaign this year, highlighting the importance of family meals by encouraging meal prep, family interaction and the consumption of fruits and vegetables, together.

Throughout the month-long omni-channel campaign, Pure Flavor executed the following:

• Dozens of fresh new recipes; promoted themed pins in Pinterest
• Family-focused blog content on meal planning, time-saving and healthy hacks
• Weekly Instagram Live sessions with an influencer partner
• Collaborated with the teams at The Healthy Family Project and Produce Made Simple to create engaging content
• Weekly emails reaching more than 50,000 people throughout the campaign
• Published weekly Did You Know? Facts about family meals and related benefits
• Content specific consumer surveys with Instacart eGift Card as prizes; more than 5,000 consumers completed during the campaign
• Family-friendly activity sheets for kids of all ages

“Our omni-channel approach garnered more than 1 million impressions across all our channels combined during our Together campaign. It further demonstrated that we were connected with the right people on the right channel at the right time with the right message. We are incredibly honored to receive FMI’s Gold Plate Award for the second year in a row for a strategic marketing campaign designed to help increase fresh produce consumption,” said Chris Veillon, chief marketing officer.

“Creating togetherness around mealtime has always been a goal for Healthy Family Project. When we make it a priority to be together, we also tend to add more nutritious options to our plate, which helps create a healthier generation. We are honored to partner with Pure Flavor to encourage family meals together during National Family Meals Month and beyond. By showcasing highlights on our website as well as social media we can inspire our followers and their families to spend time together and make memories,” said Tracy Shaw, senior digital marketing manager for the Healthy Family Project.

2023 Gold Plate Award Winners:

• Category: Retailer 1-49 stores; Skogen’s Festival Foods
• Category: Retailer 50-199 stores; K-VA-T Food Stores Inc. (Food City)
• Category: Retailer 200-plus stores; Hy-Vee Inc.
• Category: Community Collaborator; IFPA Foundation For Fresh Produce
• Category: Supplier; Pure Flavor

Pure Flavor continues to create consumption-focused content to inspire families and consumers of all ages to eat more fruits and vegetables, regardless of the season. Using a variety of digital strategies, the company is able connect with consumers on their channel of choice using tactical communication tools such as email, blogs, social media, as well as via the brands award-winning Live Deliciously eMagazine, which is published quarterly.

To learn more about Pure Flavor or to flip through company’s award-winning Live Deliciously eMagazine, visit https://www.pure-flavor.com/live-deliciously.