PHOENIX, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inventure
Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNAK), a leading specialty food marketer and
manufacturer, today announced that its President and CEO,
Terry McDaniel, has been honored
with an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Award in the Mountain Desert region. McDaniel received the
top honor in the turnaround category.
The Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award recognizes
outstanding high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence
and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial
performance and personal commitment to their businesses and
communities. The finalists and winners were selected by an
independent panel of judges and honored at a gala event at the
Denver Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, June 20, 2013.
McDaniel has served as President and CEO of Inventure Foods
since 2008 and has played a pivotal role in creating an atmosphere
of product innovation and strategic execution. Under his
leadership, the Company has established a diverse portfolio of
better-for-you and indulgent foods, making Inventure the licensing
partner of choice within the specialty food category. Inventure now
has licensing agreements with several leading brands, including
Nathan's Famous®, Jamba® Juice and Seattle's Best Coffee™. McDaniel's
efforts in the first few years of his leadership have positioned
the Company well to focus on high growth business ventures,
proactively engage Wall Street and further expand distribution
channels. As a result of McDaniel's entrepreneurial
leadership style, Inventure Foods continues to seek out new
ventures that align with consumer preferences and enhance the
Company's innovative platform. 2012 marked a successful year for
the Company primarily due to the investments made in prior years
and the strategic foresight by McDaniel. Inventure Foods
achieved record financial and operational results, which will allow
the Company to seek new ventures, enhance their innovative platform
and grow their Healthy/Natural portfolio for years to come.
"I am honored to have received this award from Ernst and Young,
but it really would not have been possible without the support and
hard work of the entire Inventure Foods team that I am privileged
to lead and work alongside," said McDaniel. "The stability and
growth that has occurred at Inventure is the direct result of a
clear focus on our vision and a great team effort to execute our
plan."
As a regional award winner, McDaniel will now go on to compete
at the national level. Award winners in several national
categories, as well as the National Entrepreneur Of The Year
Overall Award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala
in Palm Springs, California on
November 16, 2013. The awards are the
culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic
Growth Forum®, the nation's most prestigious gathering
of high-growth, market-leading companies.
About Inventure Foods, Inc.
With
manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Indiana and Washington, Inventure Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SNAK) is a marketer and manufacturer of specialty food brands in
better-for-you and indulgent categories under a variety of Company
owned and licensed brand names, including Boulder Canyon Natural
Foods®, Jamba®, Seattle's Best
Coffee™, Rader Farms®, T.G.I.
Friday's®, Nathan's Famous®, Vidalia Brands®, Poore
Brothers®, Tato Skins® and Bob's Texas Style®. For further
information about Inventure Foods, please visit
www.inventurefoods.com.
SOURCE Inventure Foods, Inc.