We’re very excited about our upcoming annual member meeting. We’ll meet again at St. Demetrios Hall, which was an excellent venue for us last fall.
Michael Funk, CEO and president of United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), will speak at the annual meeting. UNFI is the largest natural food distributor in the country.
The dinner table discussions will focus on sustainability at PCC and whether members want to know more about our efforts and want more information from PCC about how they can live “greener.”
The meeting will feature reports on the state of our co-op. You’ll also meet and have a chance to question our four board candidates for the May elections.
Our speaker for the evening will be Michael Funk, a pioneer in the natural food industry. In 1976, Michael founded Mountain People’s Warehouse and built it into the leading wholesale distributor of natural foods in the west. In 1996, he co-founded United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), to form the largest natural food distributor in the country.
As CEO and president of UNFI, Michael has led the company to sales of more than $3 billion a year. Michael is active in industry and trade groups, including the Center for Organic Education and Promotion, the Non-GMO Project, and Californians for GE-free Agriculture.
Funk will talk about what UNFI is doing to reduce its carbon footprint, identify the origin of ingredients and rid the natural foods industry of GMOs.
