Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. Announces 2025 Annual Meeting, and CEO Letter to Shareholders

BROADVIEW, Ill., May 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: IVFH) (“IVFH” or the “Company”), a national seller of gourmet specialty foods to professional chefs, today announced the timing for the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders and shared a letter from the Chief Executive Officer to the Company’s shareholders.

Annual Meeting of Shareholders

The Company will be hosting its annual meeting of shareholders in person on May 28, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time at the Courtyard by Marriott, 114 West 40th St, New York, New York. Please reference the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2025 for full details on the agenda for the meeting.   This will be a great opportunity for investors to meet the Company’s board of directors and management team.

CEO Letter to Shareholders

Included in the Company’s Proxy Statement for its upcoming Annual Meeting of Shareholders is the following letter from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Bill Bennett:

May 5, 2025

Dear fellow stockholders,

As we turn the page on 2024 and look ahead to the future, I want to begin by thanking you for your continued support and trust. Each year, I am reminded of just how important our shareholder community is to the success and evolution of Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. (“IVFH”). Thank you for your continued support and confidence during this year of significant transformation and growth.

2024 was a pivotal year. We moved beyond stabilization and into strategic execution, accelerating our progress across multiple fronts. When I joined IVFH, we laid out a clear roadmap to long-term value creation. That roadmap remains our north star:

1. Phase 1: Stabilization – Restructure the business, strengthen the balance sheet, and improve gross margins.
2. Phase 2: Lay the Foundation for Growth – Optimize operations, focus the business, and execute strategic acquisitions.
3. Phase 3: Build and Scale – Expand markets, scale revenue, and activate a profitable flywheel.
   

I’m proud to share that Phase 1 is now complete, and Phase 2 is well underway. The business is healthier, more focused, and more dynamic than it has been in years.

Executing on Strategy

Our 2024 achievements speak for themselves:

• We divested all non-core operations, including igourmet.com and Mouth.com, eliminating distractions and financial drag.
• We improved our financial flexibility by selling our Florida headquarters and rightsizing our cost structure.
• We focused entirely on our core foodservice distribution business, which delivered organic revenue growth (excluding the impact of divestitures and acquisitions) of 44.3% in Q4 2024, most of which was driven by the new retail business we launched this year.
• We completed our first two acquisitions, the first in five years—Golden Organics and LoCo Foods—that are both profitable and synergistic.
• We launched a national retail distribution partnership, creating a new revenue stream with immediate and material scale.