Press Releases
Family That Works Together Stays Together In May, we celebrate Mother’s Day. It’s generally a day that brings to mind times when our mothers were supporting us, comforting us, or encouraging us. It’s a Hallmark movie in our minds. Now, think about working with your mom. Does that movie genre change to a comedy? A […]
April is National Intern Appreciation Month! There are so many of us who launched our careers through an internship, and maybe even in a career we hadn’t first imagined. Topco Associates Human Resource Specialist Nabiha Asfar started as an intern with Topco and spent some time assisting the WISE Marketing Committee as well. Her story […]
Celebrating International Women’s Day On March 8th, we will celebrate International Women’s Day, and, of course, WISE wants to recognize this extraordinary day. The big question is always how to best do that. This year, with a little ingenuity and the beloved term “creative license”, we decided to feature two amazing women whose professional talent […]
Coach Katie Sowers Leaves Us All Better Than She Found Us Featured speaker Coach Katie Sowers, offensive assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers delivered a very heart-felt and intimate message at the 2020 virtual WISE Annual Meeting on November 12. Katie, the first female and openly gay coach to be part of the professional […]
Jill Dearing Receives the 2020 Top Women in Store Brands Lifetime Achievement Award at WISE Annual Meeting On November 14, the 2020 Top Women in Store Brands were honored during the virtual WISE Annual Meeting. Presented by WISE and StoreBrands Magazine, nine outstanding women were recognized for their contributions to the store brands industry in […]
PLMA pivots to all-digital U.S. trade show with PLMALive! Private Label Week, Feb. 1-5 In a move without precedent in forty years of hosting major industry trade shows internationally, the Private Label Manufacturers Association will launch its first all-digital trade shows for the U.S at the start of 2021. Over the course of five days, […]
Words From Our WISE Chair Jen Linke To say 2020 delivered unexpected surprises is an understatement. At the beginning of 2020, I was steadily gaining momentum to become the Chairperson of WISE at the end of 2021. Suddenly, in May, I quickly had to pivot to become the Chairperson on July 1st. I am honored […]
PROGRAM MATERIALS Women In The Workplace – PDF DOWNLOAD Women in the Workplace is the largest comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America. This year’s report, conducted by McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org, focuses on how the pandemic has affected women at work, including the unique impact on women of different races […]
TOP WOMEN IN STORE BRANDS Store Brands magazine and Women Impacting Storebrand Excellence™ (WISE) created The Top Women in Store Brands honors in 2013 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, […]