The Floral Marketer of the Year Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership skills and an uncommon commitment to the mass-market floral industry. The award honors the creativity, dedication and vision of an individual who contributes to and participates in the advancement of their industry. As the trade association representing the floral industry, PMA has an inherit responsibility to recognize, celebrate and communicate the outstanding leaders who are advancing, growing and supporting the floral industry.
Congratulations to PlantTape, the 2018 Science and Technology Circle of Excellence Award winner. Their revolutionary product created numerous efficiencies and became widely used in the industry due to its ability to help reduce labor demand, increase planting speed and shrink the environmental footprint.
Carlos Oramas CEO and co-founder of Gems Group, Inc., received Produce Marketing Association’s (PMA) 2018 Floral Marketer of the Year award
Joe Pezzini, president and CEO of Ocean Mist Farms, Castroville, California, received the 2018 Robert L. Carey Leadership Award
Dave Corsi, vice president of produce & floral for Wegmans, Rochester, New York, received the 2018 Bryan E. Silbermann Collaboration Award
Center for Growing Talent has two awards acknowledging our volunteers and leaders: the Women's Catalyst Award, and the Jay Pack Cultivating Our Future Award.
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