2020 December Board Book

CMAB’s first Virtual Processor Meetings The CMAB held our very first virtual Processor Meeting via Zoom’s Webinar feature. This annual meeting normally consists of two meetings (one in NorCal and one in SoCal). Instead, we held one Zoom meeting for 2.5 hours. The attendance shattered records, with 124 in attendance. This year, the Processor Meeting focused on Product Development with our keynote speaker, Amanda Burlison from General Mills who discussed product innovation processes and practices. We held a follow up virtual meeting 2 weeks later covering Marketing with 104 attendees and a third webinar on Sustainability, which had over 60 attendees. Surveys were sent out to measure our performance and content to help us make these events even more impactful for future meetings and webinars. New Processor’s/Brand Marketers Since May While the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed some things down, there is still plenty of interest and activity in the dairy processing and marketing side of things. Since May of 2020 we have added several new partner processors and brand marketers with new and interesting capabilities with even more in the works at the time of this writing. Here are the Processors and Brand Marketers we have added since May: • Petit Pot - Processor of gourmet premium glass jar packed puddings • Milk Specialties Global – Processor of milk-based proteins • Bestion China Marketing Service Co., Ltd. – Brand Marketer of ESL Milk (from Rockview) • Yummy Industries – New Snacking Cheese Processor in Riverbank, CA • AI Foods/ Philippine Foodtrade Corp – Brand Marketer of Ice Cream (from Coney Island Creamery) • Talmera, Inc. – Brand Marketer of Foodservice Cream Cheese (from Savencia) • CA Spice Basket – Processor of blended Dairy Powders for Nutritional Beverage • Dream Butters – Processor of Flavored Butters (From CDI Butter)

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