Daiya won first place in the BC Innovation Council (BCIC) 2009 Commercialization of Agricultural Technology Competition.Phan, I. (2010, January 11). $600,000 Awarded to the Recipients of the 2009 Commercialization of Agricultural Technology Competition. BCIC Press Release. Canada Newswire. Also in 2009, Daiya was the awarded the PETA Libby Award for best vegan cheese. Daiya Foods won the VegNews Veggie Award at the Natural Products ExpoWest Show in Anaheim, California, in March 2009, 2011 and 2012. In 2010, it won the best vegan cheese award from VegNewsMorgan, T. (2011, August 10–16).Find: Daiya Vegan Cheese. Boise Weekly, 20 (7), 17. and the 2010 Proggy Award for Company of the Year from PETA.Moore, H. (2010, December 20). Vegan Cheese Maker is Company of the Year. The PETA Files. 2012 awards in Canada include the British Columbia Food Processors award for Product of the Year and the Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology Gordon Royal Maybee award, in recognition of outstanding applied development by a Canadian company or institution in the fields of food production, processing, transportation, storage or quality control.
