Recognition
Industry Awards & Recognition
Ben E. Keith Foods has received many industry awards, including:
- ID Magazine’s 1989 Great Distributor Organization (GDO)
- ID Magazine’s Innovator of the Year 2002
- ID Magazine’s DSR of the Year in 1996, was Michael Hirsch, DSR in the Dallas/Fort Worth Division
- UniPro Foodservice’s Member of the Year in 1998, 1999, and 2004
- UniPro Foodservice’s Key Distributor Award winner in 2002
- “The Packer” Produce Newspaper’s Inaugural Foodservice Achievement Award Winner – Floyd Warner, Vice President of Produce and Training, 2002
- Markon’s Outstanding Member and Passion for Produce Winner 2002-2003
- National Equipment and Supply Association’s Distributor of the Year in 2002, 2005, and 2006
- DMA (Distributor Marketing Alliance) Shareholder of the Year 2002
- DMA Most Valuable Professional – Shawn Mullins, National Accounts Manager 2006
- IFDA (International Foodservice Distributors Association) Value-Ad Awards Winner for many years, most recently:
- 2006 Two Diamond Awards and One Merit Award
- 2005 One Diamond Award and Two Merit Awards
- 2004 Four Merit Awards
- 2003 One Diamond Award
- 2002 One Diamond Award and Two Merit Awards
- 2001 One Diamond Award and One Merit Award
- 2000 One Diamond Award
- 1999 One Diamond Award
- IFMA Awards
- 2008 Distributor Sales and Marketing Performance Award
- 2009 Excellence in Distribution Award
