Foodland Retailer Award winners 2015

The Foodland Ontario Retailer Awards for 2015 were presented in Toronto last Friday to recognize excellence in produce merchandising. Here is a complete list of the winners:

Foodland Ontario Award of Excellence celebrates Ontario retailers, in each store size category, that have won the Platinum All Seasons Award two years in a row. This year's winners:

Andrew & Emily's No Frills, Picton
Food Basics #697, Sudbury
Food Basics #932, St. Catharines
Metro #147, Windsor
Metro #453, Bowmanville
Stewart's Town & Country Market, Mildmay

The Vision Award recognizes grocery head offices for their corporate commitment to local foods. This year's winners:

Conventional - Metro Ontario Inc.
Discount - Food Basics
Local Food Champion - Brian Langley, Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc.

The Platinum All Seasons Award recognizes merchandising excellence through three seasonal groupings: spring, summer and fall/winter. This year's winners:

Allan's Independent Grocer, Pickering
Andrew & Emily's No Frills, Picton
Food Basics #697, Sudbury
Food Basics #932, St. Catharines
Food Basics #989, St. Catharines
Metro #73, Mississauga
Metro #147, Windsor
Metro #453, Bowmanville
Metro #479, Orillia
Metro #800, Scarborough
Sobeys Ira Needles, Kitchener
Stewart's Town & Country Market, Mildmay

The Gold Category Award is given to chain and independent stores in three specific categories: seasonal, creative and cross-merchandised. This year's winners:

Gold Seasonal

Food Basics #620, Burlington
Jonsson's Your Independent Grocer, Kemptville
Loblaw Great Food #1028, Richmond Hill
Metro #58, Cambridge

Gold Creative Winners

Food Basics #638, Sudbury
Food Basics #893, Dunnville
Metro #193, Huntsville
Metro #808, Scarborough

Gold Cross-Merchandised

Food Basics #660, Brampton
Metro #83, Brampton
Sobeys #858, Pickering
Vos' Independent #835, Port Perry

The Silver Award of Merit celebrates excellence in promoting Ontario produce in a display. This year's winners:

Food Basics #607, Hanmer
Food Basics #610, Sudbury
Food Basics #612, London
Food Basics #668, Cornwall
Food Basics #669, Mississauga
Food Basics #681, London
Food Basics #691, Guelph
Food Basics #693, Chatham
Food Basics #858, Niagara Falls
Food Basics #877, Kitchener
Food Basics #883, Listowel
Food Basics #897, Barrie
Food Basics #921, Brockville
Highland Farms, Mississauga
Longo's Maple Leaf Square, Toronto
Longo's, Milton
Metro #124, Tillsonburg
Metro #139, Windsor
Metro #140, Georgetown
Metro #170, Kingston
Metro #202, Sault Ste. Marie
Metro #235, Hamilton
Metro #395, Sault Ste. Marie
Metro #461, Mississauga
Metro #712, North York
Metro Cherryhill, London
Metro Convent Glen, Orleans
Metro Cumberland, Orleans
Metro Merivale #272, Ottawa
Sobeys #649 Bridgeport, Waterloo
Sobeys #915, Niagara Falls
Sobeys, Grimsby
Baxtrom's Independent Grocer, Cornwall
Moncion's Independent Grocer, Ottawa
Morello's Independent Grocer, Peterborough
Zehrs Great Food #521, Windsor