2026 sponsors
Acosta Group
Acosta Group is a collective of the most trusted retail, marketing and foodservice agencies empowering brands and retailers to win in the modern marketplace. By delivering transformative, commerce-focused solutions and more than 97 years of expertise, Acosta Group connects the company’s partners with people at every point in the consumer journey.
Anheuser-Busch
For more than 165 years, Anheuser-Busch has carried on a legacy of brewing great-tasting, high-quality beers that have satisfied beer drinkers for generations. Today, we own and operate 23 breweries, 14 distributorships and 23 agricultural and packaging facilities, and have more than 19,000 colleagues across the United States.
Chicory
Chicory is the leading contextual advertising platform for CPG & grocery, reaching consumers in active mindsets and marketing moments that matter. By combining engaging media with contextually relevant content, we help brands and retailers connect with shoppers discovering recipes, planning meals, and building lists.
Our platform reaches 123M monthly unique shoppers across 5,200+ publishers, powering 70+ retailers through integrations and retail media partnerships, delivering full-funnel results from curiosity to conversion.
Our platform reaches 123M monthly unique shoppers across 5,200+ publishers, powering 70+ retailers through integrations and retail media partnerships, delivering full-funnel results from curiosity to conversion.
Denali
Denali is the nation’s leading organics recycling company, helping businesses reach their sustainability goals by diverting inedible food, organics, and used cooking oil from landfills. Through our nationwide network of depackaging and recycling outlets, we produce valuable renewable products, including animal feed, nutrient-rich compost, natural fertilizer, and biofuel.
Diebold Nixdorf
Diebold Nixdorf is transforming the way people shop. As a reliable software, service and technology partner for industry leaders in General Merchandise, Grocery and Hard Discount, Fashion and Specialty, F&C and QSR, we help our more than 150 retail partners around the world manage their store transformations and navigate the business technology complexities they face.
Eagle Eye
Eagle Eye is a leading SaaS and AI company, enabling retail, travel and hospitality brands to earn lasting customer loyalty through harnessing the power of real-time, omnichannel and personalized marketing. Our powerful technology combines the world’s most flexible and scalable loyalty and promotions capability with cutting edge, built-for-purpose AI to deliver 1:1 personalization at scale for enterprise businesses, globally.
Flashfood
Flashfood is a platform that helps grocers convert their shrink and surplus into revenue, foot traffic, and incremental sales. Grocers reach shoppers through Flashfood's marketplace and turn discounted items into in-store visits, while increasing access to affordable food, engaging their communities, and reducing waste.
Food Lion
Founded in Salisbury, N.C. in 1957, Food Lion is an omnichannel grocery retailer. More than 82,000 associates across 1,110+ stores deliver an easy, fresh and affordable shopping experience throughout 10 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states. The company’s hunger relief platform has donated more than 1.5 billion meals since 2014.
HarvestHold
Verdant Technologies is grounded in science and discovery. Across categories, our HarvestHold technology helps deliver produce to consumers as intended, staying fresh and protected throughout the supply chain. With the ability to target application, our solutions create new opportunities and expand markets while using fewer natural resources and lessening negative environmental impacts.
Inmar Intelligence
Inmar is in the business of helping retailers differentiate themselves with their shoppers. We specialize in working with grocery retailers to enable them to meet the needs of their shoppers both online and in-store, maximize investments from their suppliers and drive workflow efficiency throughout their organization.
LaCroix
LaCroix® Sparkling Water (pronounced La-Croy) leads the premium domestic sparkling water category with distinctive packaging, robust aromas, and unique hints of flavor. With zero calories, zero sweeteners, and zero sodium, LaCroix gives health-conscious consumers refreshment, flavor, and sparkle with the innocent twist of over 20 unique flavors.
Meijer
Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Michigan based retailer that operates 262 supercenters and grocery stores throughout the Midwest. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer pioneered the “one-stop shopping” concept and has evolved through the years to include expanded fresh departments, as well as pharmacies, garden centers, and apparel, pet, toys, electronics, home departments and more.
Milo's Tea Company
Milo’s philosophy is simple: use high quality, natural ingredients, listen to our customers, and never sacrifice taste. This vision guides us as we source high-quality, natural ingredients and never add colors or preservatives to our beverages. More than eighty years after being founded, Milo’s is still a family-owned business and also a Certified Women Owned Business that's sold nationwide.
Ohla US
Ohla US is a leading marketing and sales organization across the Americas, with operations in the United States and 22 Latin American countries. Our regional hubs are located in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and the United States. Our expertise covers Perfect Store Execution, Brand Experiences and Retailtainment, Business Intelligence and Tech Innovation, Sales Acceleration, Last-mile Logistics, and Full-commerce solutions — helping brands win at every point of sale and every stage of the shopper journey.
PepsiCo
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. PepsiCo generated nearly $94 billion in net revenue in 2025, driven by a beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive.
Red Bull
Inspired by functional drinks from East Asia, Dietrich Mateschitz founded Red Bull in the mid 1980s. He developed not only a new product but also a unique marketing concept and launched Red Bull Energy Drink in Austria on April 1, 1987. A completely new product category was born energy drinks.
Shipt
Shipt is a digital shopping center that provides access to a comprehensive marketplace of more than 100 retailers and exceptional same-day delivery offerings. Through a powerful combination of personalized service, a dedicated team, and a community of shoppers, Shipt ensures that care and convenience go hand-in-hand to deliver joy with every order.
St Pierre
Inspired by Parisian café culture, with a passion for quality and a love of brioche, pastries, crêpes and waffles, St Pierre adds a taste of Paris to every meal, making everyday moments magnifique. Made to authentic recipes with quality ingredients, St Pierre is America's No.1 brioche brand in in-store bakery.
Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak is a world leading food processing and packaging solutions company. Working with our customers and suppliers, we provide access to safe, nutritious food for hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries every day.
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is a total beverage company. Our company’s purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. We sell multiple billion-dollar brands across several beverage categories worldwide. We’re constantly transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing innovative new products to market.
The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company headquartered in Hershey, Pa., is an industry-leading snacks company known for bringing goodness to the world through its iconic brands, remarkable people and enduring commitment to help children succeed. The company has over 80 brands around the world that drive over $8 billion in annual revenues.
The USA Bouquet Company
The USA Bouquet Company is a leading provider in the floral industry, supplies exceptional fresh cut flowers, innovative bouquets, and beautifully designed floral arrangements to multiple retailers and e-tailers nationwide. We continue to define excellence across the industry as the standard-setter in perishable floral distribution and logistics. Our nationally located facilities provide our partners with the freshest product possible while offering efficient logistical solutions to their operations.
The Winn-Dixie Company
The Winn-Dixie Company, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a trusted neighborhood grocer with deep roots across Florida and southern Georgia. Guided by its purpose to feed and enrich the communities it serves, The Winn-Dixie Company is known for exceptional service and locally authentic stores. The grocer is committed to offering fresh, high-quality products and meaningful value through its nationally recognized Winn-Dixie Rewards program.
Twang Partners
Since 1986, Twang Partners has crafted bold salts, sugars, and seasonings that turn everyday moments into flavorful experiences. From dressing beverages to enhancing snacks and making cooking easy and fun, every product is made with passion, creativity, and cultural authenticity—bringing innovation to grocery and convenience store shelves, one flavorful sprinkle at a time.
Upshop
Upshop is the leading provider of unified store operations technology for food retailers, simplifying forecasting, ordering, production, inventory, and safety through a single
platform. Trusted by retailers around the globe, Upshop helps drive better execution, higher sales, reduced shrink, and greater operational efficiency.
platform. Trusted by retailers around the globe, Upshop helps drive better execution, higher sales, reduced shrink, and greater operational efficiency.
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