Thursday, November 12, 2026
We are excited to bring you what promises to be another insightful and uplifting Annual Meeting!
Join us for an engaging fireside chat with Sarah Spain, an Emmy, Gracie, and Peabody Award-winning sports journalist. She's the host of the first and only daily women's sports podcast, "Good Game with Sarah Spain," and Content Director of iHeart Women's Sports, the first-ever audio platform dedicated exclusively to women's sports.
Of course, no WISE annual meeting would have been complete without recognizing our talented Top Women in Store Brands Award winners. These amazing women were nominated by their peers and truly helped shape the private brands industry.
The WISE Board of Directors and Annual Meeting sponsors and volunteers look forward to seeing you at this year’s Annual Meeting in November!
*Registration closes at the end of day, Thursday 11/12. For those who don't register before then, there will be an opportunity for walk-up registration the day of the event if capacity allows.
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More About the Annual Meeting
The WISE Annual Meeting, held each November, has historically coincided with the opening day of the Private Label Manufacturers Association’s (PLMA) US Private Label Trade Show. Since the inception of the organization in 2013, each year’s event features a Keynote speaker focusing on diversity, leadership and/or the retail industry. In addition, the WISE annual event showcases Top Women in Store Brands honorees selected for their achievements in eight categories from among the nation’s leading store brand retailers, manufacturers, brokers, and suppliers. The recognition program is co-sponsored by WISE and Deerfield, Illinois-based EnsembleIQ, publishers of Store Brands magazine.
Top Women in Store Brands (TWISB)
Store Brands magazine and Women Impacting Storebrand Excellence™ (WISE) created, in 2013, The Top Women in Store Brands honors to recognize women executives, in the store brand industry, who bring a passion for store brands to their day-to-day activities. The awards cover functional expertise areas (Supply Chain/Procurement, R&D/QA, Operations, HR, Sales and Marketing/Merchandising), as well as three achievement areas not linked to a specific functional expertise area (Sparkplug, Innovation and Lifetime Achievement).
To select TWISB honorees, each spring in-depth nominations from across the store brand industry are solicited. The submissions are carefully evaluated and reviewed to determine each year’s award recipients. The cross functional committee ultimately selected one honoree for each category.
TWISB Award honorees are featured, in a multi-page story within the October issue of Store Brands magazine. The TWISB Awards are presented during the WISE Annual Meeting.