The Winn-Dixie Company toasts to 46 awards for product excellence and community impact

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 6, 2026--

The Winn-Dixie Company (TWDC) is celebrating its latest national recognitions, earning 46 awards for product quality and innovation, community impact, workplace culture and sustainability.

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The Winn-Dixie Company recently earned 46 national awards recognizing product excellence, community impact, workplace culture and sustainability. Top-honored products include SE Grocers Southern Pecan Coffee Collection, Know & Love 90-Second Rice, Know & Love Goat Cheese Crumbles, as well as wines and spirits from Winn-Dixie’s private-label and market-exclusive assortment.

The latest accolades span TWDC’s exclusive food and beverage offerings, including recognition from Store Brands Editors’ Picks, World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest and USA Wine, Beer & Spirits Ratings, along with honors from FMI Community Uplift Awards, Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces by State (Florida) and The Shelby Report’s Sustainability in the Food Industry Awards.

Brooke Rice, Chief Merchandising Officer for The Winn-Dixie Company, said, “We’re incredibly proud to see our products and community efforts recognized among some of the best in the industry. These honors reflect the care our teams put into delivering exceptional quality and meaningful value for our customers, while staying true to our purpose of feeding and enriching the communities we are proud to call home.”

TWDC’s Own Brand products continued to stand out among industry leaders this year. SE Grocers Southern Pecan Coffee Collection and Know & Love 90-Second Rice were named Store Brands Editors’ Picks, while Know & Love General Tso Sauce, Know & Love Antioxidant Fruit Blend, Know & Love Tuna Pouches, Chek Shirley Temple Soda and Know & Love Blood Orange Cranberry Sparkling Water received honorable mentions.

The grocer’s dairy offerings earned recognition from the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest, with Know & Love Goat Cheese Crumbles earning a first-place medal, alongside second-place category honors for Know & Love Plain Cream Cheese, SE Grocers Strawberry Cream Cheese and SE Grocers Salted Butter.

TWDC also raised a glass to an impressive showing at the USA Wine, Beer & Spirits Ratings, earning 37 medals across its private-label and market-exclusive wines and spirits. The awards celebrate standout beverages for their quality and consumer appeal. Among this year’s winners, the following products earned gold medals:

Winn-Dixie Gin earned additional distinction as Best Own Label by Quality and Best Spirit by Value. Fioroso Prosecco Rosé was named Best Own Label by Value, Best Own Label Sparkling and Best Own Label of the Year, while Fog & Light Reserve Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon earned Best Own Label by Package, further highlighting the quality and value found across TWDC’s beverage assortment.

Beyond the shelves, TWDC was acknowledged for bringing its purpose to life in the communities it serves. The grocer’s Gratitude Month initiative earned recognition through the FMI Community Uplift Awards for its response during last year’s government shutdown. TWDC and the Winn-Dixie Gives Foundation mobilized the effort with a $100,000 donation to Feeding America® to provide more than 1 million meals to families in need, along with affordable solutions to help customers facing increased food insecurity. The FMI Community Uplift Awards celebrate meaningful efforts that help strengthen communities, address local needs and create positive impact.

TWDC’s commitment to its associates also earned national recognition this year, with the company named one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces by Statein Florida, adding to the grocer’s growing list of workplace honors. The recognition reflects TWDC’s continued focus on creating a workplace where associates can grow, thrive and build meaningful careers while serving customers as a trusted hometown grocer throughout Florida.

TWDC earned additional recognition from The Shelby Report as a 2026 Sustainability in the Food Industry Award honoree for its partnership with Relocalize. The annual awards celebrate companies helping build a smarter, greener and more resilient food ecosystem. Earlier this year, the companies introduced an autonomous ice micro-factory to produce SE Grocers Party Cubes ice locally and on demand, reducing the transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions tied to ice delivery.

Together, these latest honors build on an award-winning year for TWDC, with the grocer earning 68 awards so far in 2026 recognizing its products, people and company initiatives.

As TWDC celebrates its latest award-winning products, customers can discover new and returning seasonal favorites in Winn-Dixie stores this fall. The grocer’s limited-time Own Brand lineup includes an 8-inch Pumpkin Pie, SE Grocers Pumpkin Muffins, 9-count Gourmet White Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies and Pumpkin Spice Coffee in 10-count single-serve pods, along with SE Grocers Apple Cider, Chek Cranberry Ginger Ale and Chek Raspberry Ginger Ale, offering festive flavors at a great value. Shoppers can also find new Chocolate Chek Soda, the latest addition to Winn-Dixie’s iconic Chek soda collection.

From seasonal favorites and everyday staples to award-winning wines and spirits, TWDC remains focused on delivering exceptional quality, exciting new products and meaningful value for its customers.

About The Winn-Dixie Company

The Winn-Dixie Company, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a trusted hometown grocer with deep roots across Florida and southern Georgia. Building on more than a century of legacy, the company is shaping the future of neighborhood grocery through continued store investments, innovative formats and a seamless omnichannel experience that delivers exceptional value both in stores and online. Guided by its purpose to feed and enrich the communities it serves, The Winn-Dixie Company is known for exceptional service and locally authentic stores. The grocer is committed to offering fresh, high-quality products and meaningful value through its nationally recognized Winn-Dixie Rewards program and Own Brand products.

For more information and updates, visit WinnDixie.com and follow @WinnDixie on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

The Winn-Dixie Company’s latest national honors recognize its workplace culture and commitment to bringing its purpose to life in the communities it serves, including recognition from Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces by State in Florida and the FMI Community Uplift Awards.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that scientists believe offer clues to how the universe evolved.

“It was a great surprise and I obviously didn’t expect it,” Halzen said, speaking to the committee by phone from Italy, in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce the winner.

Halzen said it was predicted before that he would win the Nobel Prize but the announcement still made him feel “strange.”

“I am working on a proposal, and I hope that this prize will help getting it approved,” he said to chuckles from the audience.

The Nobel Committee for Physics also said Halzen’s work was instrumental to the construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.

“Francis Halzen realized that the ice at the South Pole could visualize these neutrino messengers from cosmos,” committee member Eva Olsson said during the news conference. “People joined him in the quest for these neutrino messengers. The messenger is bringing information from cosmos. They opened the door to distant galaxies and tell us about the processes of exploding stars.”

Born in Belgium, the 82-year-old scientist is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the U.S, which operates the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Efforts by The Associated Press to reach him were not immediately successful.

Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with a mind-bogglingly small mass. Yet they are everywhere: they spew from stars like the sun and trillions zip through our bodies every second.

Scientists can’t glimpse the mysterious ghost particles zooming around on their own. Instead, they measure what happens when the tiny particles collide with other bits of matter, producing flashes of light or charged particles.

Halzen helped pull the curtain back on a rare gang of neutrinos that scientists consider messengers from the cosmos, offering clues to how the universe evolved.

“This experiment in the Antarctic is a revolutionary way of understanding the universe that we didn’t have before,” said Michael Moloney, chief executive officer for the American Institute of Physics.

In a post on social media, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever sent his “sincere congratulations” to Halzen, who he said is the 11th Belgian to win a Nobel prize.

De Wever called the award “impressive recognition for a lifetime dedicated to shedding light on the great mysteries of the cosmos through its smallest components.”

A representative from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory did not immediately return a request for comment. The University of Wisconsin–Madison did not immediately have a comment when reached by the AP.

Ellen Moons, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the award Tuesday in Stockholm. She is the first woman to head the prestigious academy and present the award.

The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million), whether for an individual, a small group of laureates or an organization.

Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultrasensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.

The announcements of this year's prizes began Monday with the Nobel Prize in medicine being awarded to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.

This week's awards continue Wednesday with the chemistry prize and literature on Thursday. After Friday’s peace prize is awarded, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced on Monday.

Dazio reported from Berlin and Ramakrishnan reported from New York. Alexa St. John in Detroit contributed to this report.

AP Nobel Prizes: https://apnews.com/hub/nobel-prizes

A portrait of Francis Halzen is shown on the screen during the announce of the recipient of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 2026. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

A portrait of Francis Halzen is shown on the screen as Eva Olsson, Ellen Moons, and Mark Pearce announce as the recipient of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 2026. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

FILE - A Nobel diploma and medal are displayed, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - A bust of Alfred Nobel on display following a press conference to announce the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 3, 2022. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP, File)