SPAMMY fortified poultry spread was designed by Hormel Foods and named after the company’s iconic SPAM family of products. It was created to help address malnutrition in children.
The Hormel Vital Cuisine brand is in its infancy, but it represents a direct effort by a protein-processing giant to impact a cancer-patient community desperate for food that meets hyper-specific nutritional and quality needs.
Fighting cancer has become serious business not only for academia and pharmaceutical companies, but also food companies, which have chipped in funding and expertise to help patients battling to get their lives back.
The award was officially presented to the company by Steven Jensen, Corporate Manager of Purchasing from Hormel, at Multisorb's corporate offices in Buffalo, New York on May 11, 2016.
In recent years, Hormel Foods has been on the prowl, busy acquiring companies and products as the economic headwinds have eased and sparked growth in the M&A space.
Prolamina Corporation, a leading North American packaging company that serves the food, medical and specialty markets, was honored with the 2014 Hormel Spirit of Excellence Award.
Joseph Sebranek, Iowa State University; Kevin Myers, Hormel Foods Corporation; and Jeff Sindelar, University of Wisconsin-Madison will be the featured speakers.