The QCS Purchasing Awards program recognizes its members and supply partners who go above and beyond their peers in a variety of categories. Recipients gain prestige within the organization, the food and beverage industry, and their service areas. QCS awards highlight achievements in member & supply partner collaboration, product quality & food safety excellence, QCS supply partner program marketing to members, innovation, member & supply partner leadership and QCS Cooperative Value Commitment.
Every day across the QCS cooperative community, leaders and their teams rise to the challenge, working together, innovating, and driving success for the good of the cooperative.
The QCS Leadership Awards honor these extraordinary contributions. This year’s recipients, two member companies and one supply partner, have demonstrated exceptional dedication to strengthen our cooperative, building a legacy of collaboration and growth. The award winners were revealed at the 2025 QCS Annual Conference in Boston, MA.
Congratulations to recipients of the 2025 Member Leadership Award:
–California Dairy, Inc., Visalia, CA (view press release) (View Video)
–Multi-Flow Industries, Huntingdon Valley, PA (view press release) (View Video)
Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 Supply Partner Leadership Award:
–Innovation Energy Group, Coraopolis, PA (view press release) (View Video)
The Value Creator Award honors individuals whose meaningful contributions have helped connect, advocate, and innovate within our community. These leaders play a vital role in strengthening QCS by fostering collaboration, advancing new ideas, and championing the cooperative spirit. Recognition to these outstanding recipients were made during the QCS Annual Conference Opening General Session on October 20, 2025 in Boston, MA.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Value Creator Awards:
–Bryan Arneson – Tillamook County Creamery Association
–Brian Weinzierl – Galliker’s Dairy
–Tim Griglack – United Dairy (Lifetime Value Creator)
–Mike Bevers – QCS Purchasing Cooperative Category Leader (Lifetime Value Creator)
–Tom Atkins – ORBIS Corporation (retired) (Lifetime Value Creator)
QCS Purchasing Cooperative has announced the entrants for the Best Collaboration Awards. The QCS Best Collaboration Award celebrates partnerships between a member and a supply partner from within the QCS community to solve a problem or achieve a desired outcome. This award can go to a variety of joint efforts, such as a new packaging innovation, a new product launch, a cost-saving effort, or an operational improvement.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Best Collaboration Award:
–Prairie Farms Dairy/Hiland Dairy and Rocket Products – Lemonade Partnership to Benefit ALSF (View Video)
QCS Purchasing Cooperative has announced the entrants for their Supply Partner Program Marketing Award. QCS Supply Partner Program Promotion Award will honor QCS supply partner organizations’ creative QCS member-based marketing campaigns that communicate the provided value, benefits, and advantages to QCS members.
Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Supply Partner Promotion Award:
–WEX/Shell – Shell Fleet Cards & Innovation Energy Group: Fueling QCS Member Value Through Collaborative Promotion (View Video)
The QCS quality award program recognizes its members that go above and beyond their peers in a variety of quality & food safety categories. Our major awards, The Irving B. Weber Award and the Dairy Quality Excellence Award are given to the top plants who achieve the highest ranking in various categories and are recognized by their peers as the “BEST OF THE BEST” within our organization. To qualify for the QCS Quality Awards, members must be participants in the QCS Dairy Quality Excellence Program.
Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Irving B. Weber Award:
–Umpqua Dairy Products Company, Roseburg, OR (view Press Release)
The 2025 Dairy Quality Award Winners and Weber Finalists are:
-Fluid Milk: Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc., Olney IL (View VIDEO) (View Press Release)
-Ice Cream: Umpqua Dairy Products Company, Roseburg, OR (View VIDEO) (View Press Release)
-Cultured Products: Umpqua Dairy Products Company, Roseburg, OR
-ESL/Aseptic: Alqueria Cajica Colombia (View VIDEO) (View Press Release)
2025 Merit of Excellence Award in Fluid Milk (View VIDEO of All) (View Press Release)
2025 Merit of Excellence Award in Ice Cream (View Press Release)
2025 Merit of Excellence Award in Cultured Products (View Press Release)
2025 Plant Assessment Awards (View VIDEO) (View Press Release)
Read more about the QCS Quality Awards here.
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