Perfetti Van Melle Media resources

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Awards & recognition

2021 & 2022 NKY Magazine Best Workplaces in NKY Award
2021 & 2020 NKY Chamber Business Impact Awards Finalist
Local Community Awards
Mentos Gum Awards
2020 MANNY Award

NKY Magazine 2022 Best Workplaces in NKY Award

For the second year in a row, Perfetti Van Melle USA was selected as a Best Workplaces in Northern Kentucky (NKY) winner! The magazine is honoring businesses that demonstrate the exceptional qualities that make our region a great place to have a career.

We earned the 2022 award for all the ways our employees are engaged, rewarded and recognized in our workplace, our community involvement, our DE&I/culture efforts as well as our very strong benefits and perks for employees.

Perfetti Van Melle was selected as a 2021 Best Workplaces in NKY winner! The magazine honored businesses that demonstrate the exceptional qualities that make this region a great place to have a career.

In 2021, The NKY Magazine awards offered a unique opportunity for local companies to share stories of their response to the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. We were recognized for our response, from keeping our people safe, employed and engaged to expanding our DE&I efforts to supporting our community, all while challenged by the pandemic.

2021 & 2020 NKY Chamber Business Impact Awards Finalist

Each year the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce honors local companies for their noteworthy impact in various categories of achievement and industry leadership. In 2020 and 2021, Perfetti Van Melle was honored as 1 of 4 finalists in the category of Community Champion in the “For Profit” sector.

Local Community Awards

Perfetti Van Melle Named 2022 Sweet Cheeks Corporate Volunteers of the Year!

Perfetti Van Melle was presented with the 2022 Corporate Volunteers of the Year award. This award was dedicated to all the Perfetti Van Melle volunteers who gave their time and care to help with our Sweet Cheeks Community Day events. Our teams packed more than 500,000 diapers and 3,000 period kits -- enough to cover over two months of partner agency orders!

2020 Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Community Award

Perfetti Van Melle was presented with the NKY Community Award by the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. This award is presented to exceptional individuals, businesses, or organizations that have helped advance and/or promote the NKY region.

Mentos Gum Awards

Recognition for Mentos New Berry Gum with Vitamins at 2022 Sweets & Snacks Expo

The annual Most Innovative New Product Awards kicked off the 25th Sweets & Snacks Expo by recognizing this year’s most innovative confectionery and snack products and the companies that created them. We are proud to announce that Perfetti Van Melle was named a finalist! We were recognized for our new Berry flavor of Mentos Gum with Vitamins.

National Confectioners Association (NCA) 2021 Most Innovative New Product Award

The new Mentos Pure Fresh Gum recyclable Paperboard Gum Bottle won the annual Most Innovative New Product award for the Gum/Mint category at the 2021 National Confectioners Association (NCA) Sweets & Snacks Expo! It is the first-to-market gum category product from a major global confectioner in this recyclable paperboard packaging, which is 90% paperboard and widely recyclable.

International Association of Packaging Professionals 2021 AmeriStar Award

The widely recyclable paperboard bottle for Mentos Pure Fresh gum was awarded the AmeriStar Award in the Food, Shelf-stable category.

World Packaging Associations 2021 WorldStar Global Packaging Award

The widely recyclable paperboard bottle for Mentos Pure Fresh gum was awarded the 2022 WorldStar Global Packaging Award. The World Packaging Organization is considered the most prestigious global packaging award program.

Perfetti Van Melle received a 2020 MANNY Award from Cincy Magazine in recognition of the company’s “Innovation.”

The MANNY Award for Innovation recognizes companies for their innovations and best practices that have made a positive impact on the company’s operations, as well as the local community. In 2020, we were honored for the implementation of our state-of-the-art Mass Put Module at our Showcase distribution facility in Erlanger,KY.