Beats 339 other companies, gets $10,000 to grow solutions to global farming food waste. By Michael Holloway - Dec 23rd, 2020 12:34 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Agricycle Global products. Photo from Agricycle Global.
Ending extreme rural poverty might seem like an impossibly grand goal for just one Milwaukee startup. But Agricycle Global appears to be on the right track with its latest achievement taking home the Consumer Food & Beverage Award for Innovation in Food Loss Mitigation at the 2020 Foodbytes! Pitch competition.
Agricycle Globa has been working towards bridging the gap between small-holder farmers and global markets through a vertically-integrated supply chain. The company seeks to cut out the middle man, allowing small-holder farmers to benefit from every crop that they grow without producing waste. This can be a big issue because small farms tend to be excluded from typical supply chains and lack the technology to properly preserve
for the company, and lawmakers have said that they aren t satisfied. richard blumenthal, the senator from connecticut has said that he wants mr. calhoun to testify, so the pressure is still very much on for boeing. richard, you know, when i was in business school, boeing was lauded. they won the beverage award for quality multiple times, and so this is sort of striking to see this fall from grace for this storied american company. one of the big debates we re having now, the business round table saying ceos should value long-term value creation over short-term shareholder value. is this part of a process perhaps that boeing let some quality standards fall due to an emphasis on share price by the ceo? not due to share price. i wouldn t say, the share price has been very good over the last few years, so it wasn t share price. it was market share that they were going for. had introduced the a 320, it was