H-E-B’s Boyan, Bristol Farms’ Davis, Festival Foods' Skogen Among 6 Feted by FMI

Craig Boyan, president of H-E-B; Kevin Davis, president and co-CEO of Bristol Farms; and Mark Skogen, president and CEO of Festival Foods, were among six grocery industry leaders who were honored with 2020 Executive Leadership Awards by FMI at its Midwinter Executive Conference in Phoenix over the weekend. Al Carey, former CEO (retired) of PepsiCo North America; Henry Johnson, president (retired) of W. Lee Flowers & Co.; and Natalie Menza-Crowe, director of health and wellness for Wakefern Food Corp., were also celebrated for elevating the food industry through their investments in talent and the customer and for transforming the business environment. “The food industry is a people business; in our operations, there are three necessary virtues that make the food industry a noble enterprise: customer service, community support and an investment in people,” FMI President and CEO Leslie Sarasin said during her opening remarks. “Each of our honored leaders possess these virtues and have established industry-influencing legacies of enriching the lives of those in the communities they serve.” FMI celebrated each of the six individuals for excellence in trading partner collaboration, entrepreneurial enterprises, investments in the community and statesmanship at an invitation-only luncheon Jan. 25.Photographs courtesy of FMI