The CHFA NOW Vancouver conference and trade show took place in Vancouver from March 30 to April 2, and Grocery Business was there. View part one of our gallery below, and part two is available here .
Left to right: Ben Harrack and Jamie Nelson of Pattison Food Group; Jim Kavanagh Brandseed Marketing Renew Life Canada: Dan Bajor, Ridhi Johal, Julie Pellicelli, Rhonda Mitchell, Chris Budinszky Andrew Palmer, Pattison Food Group Joyce Young, Benjamin Y Jung, Georgia Main Food Group Jim Slomka, Julie Therrien, Leclerc and Scott Miller, Consultant Team Acosta: Bill Ivany, Tal Dovas, Sam Magnacca and Bill Wikie Jim Slomka: Michael Sherwood, Nature’s Fare and Brenda Kirk, Pattison Food Group Tree of Life: Justin Arnet, Serene Martin, Ashley Hodsman, Lisa MacNeil, Bari Luchene, Randa Hassanie Food Executives Club of Vancouver lunch, guest speaker, Aaron Skelton, CHFA Team Propel: Craig Flemming, Katie Bruner, Brennen Nguyen, Allison Fairfield and Peter Gamache Cameron Gillmoure, Pete Vanslyke and Chris Renner, Live Right Snacks Sanjiv Jagota, Nature’s Source Justin Berthold and Justin Schley, Quality Foods Bruce Singer, Canada CFO’s Inc. Nadia Eccles and Andrew Pang, Jamieson Wellness Peter Mattson, Burnbrae Farms, Frank Nweisser, CJR Wholesale Grocers and Jim Slomka Sylvain Trepanier, The Billio Food Company Inc. Rob Horricks Venturepark Labs and Reza Bafandeh, Darwynn Team Lassonde: Peter Ma, Kerri Tluchak, Jennifer Allchin, Lori Striegler and Stephanie Wasden Steve Morris, Casey Howe and Jaron Friedman, Clearly Canadian Grocery Business Team: Larry Bonikowsky, Mary Scianna, Jim Slomka and Karen James Robin Poulain, Diana Kelly and Chris Dimmell, Kind Snacks John Kapralos, Mazee, Peter Mattson, Burnbrae Farms, Jamie Nelson, Pattison Food Group and Jim Slomka Judy Sharpe, CHFA Janaan Dibe, Caroline Heath and Cameron Rippe, Danone Andre Chow-Leong, Loblaw Companies Limited and Aaron Skelton, CHFA Michael Graydon Michi Furuya Chang and Errol Cerit, FHCP Christina Barrett, Orange Naturals, Norm Wingfield and Stephanie Skakic, Fortinos and Jim Slomka James Boettecher, Righteous Gelato and Jon Janower, Choices Market Carla Anger, UNFI Jason Marsh, Mohamed Ibrahim and Mona Jagota, Nature’s Source Jenn Clark, Angelica de Bonis, Krystel Cisnero, Ulyana Kravchanko, Nature’s Path Tyler Babcock, Aurela Delibashi, and Marielle Hirwa, USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service Tim Lalach, Federated Co-operatives (left), Laurelee Gehrke, Ryan Touchie and Laurie Belanger of Ucluelet Co-op, and David Puller, of Federated Co-operatives Salvatore Debenedetto (left), John McGill, Fan Bonnett and Julia Ellis-Hale of Bio-K+ (Kerry Canada) The Herbaland team (from left): Andres Paez, Therese O’Hara, Shane Carter, Francesca Raleigh, Minal and Harris Syed, Aisha Yang and Musharaf Syed Pete and Chris Neal of JonLuca Neal Reid Stinson and Francis Chan of Crank Coffee/Jonluca Neal Gus Mosgopoulos and Nick Mattiace of Husky Food Importers Linda Seiler Noah Pinsky and Stephen Stauber Liesse of Galerie au Chocolat Nick Walpole of Nick Walpole Agency