Jeb Gleason-Allured, Editor

Abstract: Organization honors Joanne Kennedy for her service and commitment to the industry. We’re big, but we’re small,” says Joanne Kennedy, senior account manager at FONA International and recipient of this year’s Women in Flavor and Fragrance Commerce (WFFC) Woman of the Year Award. “As big as this business is … after a few years you get to know everybody.”

The event, held at the Chart House in Weehawken, New Jersey, paid tribute to Kennedy’s commitment and service to the industry.

A decade-plus of involvement: Kennedy’s involvement with the organization began in the early 1990s, when she worked for a supplier of medium-chain triglycerides for fl avor companies making oil-soluble fl avors. “It was a good way to meet people in the fl avor industry,” she says. Later, selling colors to fl avor customers at Warner-Jenkinson (now Sensient), she found that WFFC events provided a good forum for seeing customers in a different context.