Susan Niczowski, founder and president of Summer Fresh Salads Inc. is one of six candidates for an award that been developed to personify profitability and business innovation in the Canadian food, health and wellness sector. A candidate for the Entrepreneur category of the Market Mover Awards programme, Susan will be officially recognised during a banquet that will take place at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto on 20 February 2002. The other five Entrepreneur category award candidates who will also be highlighted are Michael Serruya, co-chairman, Cool Brands International Inc. and two teams, Bill DiNardo, founder and director and Al Sellery, president and chief executive officer, Grocery Gateway and Ahmad Doroudian, Ph.D. chairman and chief executive officer and Sean Cleary president and CEO of Pangeo Pharma Inc.. The recipient of the award will be announced at the banquet.
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Brian Hayward, CEO of Agricore United, will be formally recognised at the banquet as the recipient of the Lifetime category Market Mover Award. The distinguishing characteristic of all the 2002 Award candidates is that they have all proven that they can successfully grow firms in challenging, exceedingly competitive niches of the North American food, health and wellness sector. The selection of all the candidates has also been based on an assessment of their capacity to balance return on investment with the development of people and communities.
When Susan Niczowski started Summer Fresh Salads Inc. in 1991, backed by a C$100,000.00 family she focused all of her attention on the creation of prepared salads for the local Greater Toronto Area market. Since then, Summer Fresh Salads Inc. has grown in leaps and bounds, doubling the size of its premises and servicing not only the GTA but also national and international markets. Given its recent quarter sales increase of 20% and increased penetration into US markets, expected sales for year-end 2002 are C$30m. Susan has also grown her roots within her community. In 2001, Yonge Street Mission was the beneficiary of a Christmas meal sponsored by the company. Summer Fresh Salads Inc. is also a strong supporter of the Canadian Safe School Network.
A native of Montreal, Brian Hayward joined United Grain Growers in 1981 to start working his way through a progression of operating and corporate positions. In 1987, Hayward took on the challenge of leading UGG’s Grain Marketing Division, which involved overseeing both domestic and international trading activities as well as the company’s Transportation Department. In 1991, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of UGG. When the company merged with Agricore in 2001 to form Agricore United, Mr. Hayward became chief executive officer of Western Canada’s largest agribusiness. He is responsible for managing the complete business operations of the company. He has been involved in a number of industry and community organisations and served on the boards of directors of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, which included a term as board chairman. Mr. Hayward is a member of the Arthritis Society’s Joints in Motion marathon team and is presently a member of the board of the Arthritis Society of Manitoba. He has a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics from McGill University.
Deborah Rosser, Publisher of Canadian Business Magazine, will moderate the awards program and Roger Martin, Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto will deliver the keynote address. Awards banquet tickets can be purchased for C$225.00 or as tables of eight for C$1,400.00, both plus GST, through the registration link on the home page of www.movingthemarkets.org.
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The Moving the Markets conference is sponsored by just-food.com.
