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 BudinszkyAndrew Palmer, Pattison Food GroupJoyce Young, Benjamin Y Jung, Georgia Main Food GroupJim Slomka, Julie Therrien, Leclerc and Scott Miller, Consultant Team Acosta: Bill Ivany, Tal Dovas, Sam Magnacca and Bill WikieJim 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 HassanieFood Executives Club of Vancouver lunch, guest speaker, Aaron Skelton, CHFATeam Propel: Craig Flemming, Katie Bruner, Brennen Nguyen, Allison Fairfield and Peter GamacheCameron Gillmoure, Pete Vanslyke and Chris Renner, Live Right SnacksSanjiv Jagota, Nature’s SourceJustin Berthold and Justin Schley, Quality FoodsBruce Singer, Canada CFO’s Inc.Nadia Eccles and Andrew Pang, Jamieson WellnessPeter Mattson, Burnbrae Farms, Frank Nweisser, CJR Wholesale Grocers and Jim SlomkaSylvain Trepanier, The Billio Food Company Inc.Rob Horricks Venturepark Labs and Reza Bafandeh, DarwynnTeam Lassonde: Peter Ma, Kerri Tluchak, Jennifer Allchin, Lori Striegler and Stephanie WasdenSteve Morris, Casey Howe and Jaron Friedman, Clearly Canadian Grocery Business Team: Larry Bonikowsky, Mary Scianna, Jim Slomka and Karen JamesRobin Poulain, Diana Kelly and Chris Dimmell, Kind SnacksJohn Kapralos, Mazee, Peter Mattson, Burnbrae Farms, Jamie Nelson, Pattison Food Group and Jim SlomkaJudy Sharpe, CHFAJanaan Dibe, Caroline Heath and Cameron Rippe, DanoneAndre Chow-Leong, Loblaw Companies Limited and Aaron Skelton, CHFAMichael Graydon Michi Furuya Chang and Errol Cerit, FHCPChristina Barrett, Orange Naturals, Norm Wingfield and Stephanie Skakic, Fortinos and Jim SlomkaJames Boettecher, Righteous Gelato and Jon Janower, Choices MarketCarla Anger, UNFIJason Marsh, Mohamed Ibrahim and Mona Jagota, Nature’s SourceJenn Clark, Angelica de Bonis, Krystel Cisnero, Ulyana Kravchanko, Nature’s Path Tyler Babcock, Aurela Delibashi, and Marielle Hirwa, USDA - Foreign Agricultural ServiceTim Lalach, Federated Co-operatives (left), Laurelee Gehrke, Ryan Touchie and Laurie Belanger of Ucluelet Co-op, and David Puller, of Federated Co-operativesSalvatore 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 SyedPete and Chris Neal of JonLuca NealReid Stinson and Francis Chan of Crank Coffee/Jonluca NealGus Mosgopoulos and Nick Mattiace of Husky Food ImportersLinda Seiler Noah Pinsky and Stephen Stauber Liesse of Galerie au ChocolatNick Walpole of Nick Walpole AgencyPhilip Mercado and Julia Ivanyuk of Taste of Ukraine