2010 Annual Meeting and Keynote Breakfast

2010 Annual Meeting
and
Keynote Breakfast

2010 AFFI Frozen Food Convention

Manchester Grand Hyatt
San Diego, California

The Annual Meeting and Keynote Breakfast
balanced business with pleasure - providing
AFFI membership the opportunity to  network,
elect their new board members and
officers and hear a dynamic speaker.

NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young breakfasted
with AFFI Board Chairman Ray Walker
of the Patterson Vegetable Co., LLC
before delivering the keynote address.

Before calling the Annual Meeting to order,
Chairman Walker presented AFFI Convention
Committe Chairman Bobby Ray of Allens, Inc.
with a gift in apprecition of his work on the
record setting AFFI-CON 2010.

AFFI
President
and CEO
Kraig  R.
Naasz
addressed
the 450+
delegates
attending
AFFI's
69th
Annual
Meeting.

Second
Vice Chair
Mark Dunn
of J. R.
Simplot Co.
provided
the
membership
committee
report.

The room was full, the food was good, the
business was handled deftly and the speaker
was excellent.

Immediate Past
Chairman Jim Mathews
of H.J. Heinz Co.
offered nominations
for board officers,
positions on the board of directors
and additions
to the executive committee, submitted on behalf 
of the nominating
committee.

On behalf of the entire AFFI membership,
newly-elected Chairman Ed Flanagan of Jasper
Wyman & Son presented outgoing
Chairman Ray Walker with a gift of appreciation
for his dedicated service.

Chairman Walker (center) presented gifts to
board members completing their terms of
service.  Pictured here are Don Nugent (left)
of Graceland Fruit, Inc. and George Turner
(right) of Ruiz Foods Inc., who
was receiving the gift on behalf of retiring
board member F. Bryce Ruiz.

NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young
demonstrated an ability to connect with all
kind of receivers in his keynote address.

After the Annual Meeting, Frozen Food
Foundation Chairman Reid Wagstaff 
caught up with J.M. Smucker Inc. friends,
Margot Alono and Rudy Quehl.