Lighthouse or Lights Out - Manager Ocean Spray Employee Review

1.0
May 20, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working for the family growers, it's their livelihood and "ups" the motivation to keep the business going

Cons

Focus appears to be on creating buzz around Boston office and attracting Millennials versus dealing with a business in crisis. CEO says goal is "food as medicine". Food is culture, love, and joy! When we turn food into medicine and cultivate an “eat to live” mentality, we remove everything else from food. If we pretend that food is just nutrients or a means to heal disease, we erase memories, celebrations, and human connection.

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Ocean Spray Response
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Thanks for commenting. We couldn’t agree with you more—food is culture, love, joy and so many other things—including medicine for the soul. What we need to reframe here is that “food is medicine” is not a strategy, it’s a part of our destination as a cooperative—a way of thinking differently, diversifying our portfolio of products, and connecting our farms (and those incredible berries we love) to families for a better life. The Lighthouse™ -- Ocean Spray’s marketing and innovation hub in Boston-- is an important component of our new approach to innovation, marketing, product development, and partnerships with like-minded leaders in the industry. Our business is not in crisis, its in transformation, so we understand that stretching and changing can feel hard sometimes. But know we are on a successful path, one that is already (please pardon the pun) bearing fruit now and for the future.

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