Traverse Bay Farms Continues to Win National, State and Regional Awards

Traverse Bay Farms continues to win national and regional awards. The company just on a regional award from the Traverse Magazine Red Hot Best competition. This is an annual competition where Northern Michigan show their hometown pride by nominating and voting for individuals or companies in seven different Northern Michigan regions in 46 different categories within each region.

Andy LaPointe and the employees at the Traverse Bay Farms Elk Rapids store won 1^st place for the Front-Line Worker category for the Charlevoix & the Chain of Lakes: Antrim and Charlevoix County region.

“Thank you to everyone who nominated us and voted,” says Andy LaPointe, Director of Marketing and Sale Training with Traverse Bay Farms. “We are proud to be recognized as the winner for the Front-Line Worker category.”

Mr. LaPointe continued, “Since we opened our Elk Rapids store in 2012, we have focused on training our staff to be exceptional. With Covid-19 last year, we doubled our efforts to show how much we appreciate our customers. Like many other retail stores in Michigan and nationwide, we had limited capacity. We trained our staff to continue to provide excellent customer service for customers chose to visit our store in person during the pandemic. They enjoy our cherry juice concentrate and the photos of Hollywood celebrities with our products on our walls. In fact, our nickname is Northern Michigan’s Hollywood Hub. So we make it fun when people visit our Elk Rapids store.”

“No matter what was happening in the world including a pandemic, we realize customers made the decision to walk into our Elk Rapids store. We have a responsible to provide them with an excellent customer experience. We offer simple recipe ideas, free area maps, cherry juice and nationally award-winning products.”

Here is a brief overview of the National, State and Regional Awards Traverse Bay Farms has been awarded and won:

• National Awards: Winner of 30+ national food awards at America’s largest and most competitive food competitions
• State Award: A State of Michigan Special Tribute signed by the governor
• Regional Award: Red Hot Best Winner

About Traverse Bay Farms / Fruit Advantage

Winner of 38+ national food awards at America’s largest and most competitive food competitions. Traverse Bay Farms is the #1 award winning super fruit company in America.

Offering an all-natural line of fruit salsa, fruit barbecue, dried fruit including dried cherries, dried blueberries and more. In addition, Traverse Bay Farms offers cherry juice concentrate and teaches about health benefits of cherry juice.

Fruit Advantage is the sister brand an offers a complete line of condition-specific, fruit-based supplements including tart cherry capsules, blueberry capsules, pomegranate capsules. In addition, Fruit Advantage offers a patented formula combining tart cherries with glucosamine and chondriotin. This one-of-a-kind supplement is called Cherry Prime – Complete Muscle and Joint Complex.