Industry Stewardship

2023 Inductee

Karen James

Karen James, co-founder of Grocery Business, has been an advocate of the grocery industry for close to 30 years. She has led two industry trade publications – Grocery Business and Canadian Grocer – and under her guidance, she created a must-go-to information platform in 2011 with Grocery Business, offering industry professionals leading edge business data and market insights to help retailers and suppliers improve their respective businesses. A publishing visionary, she was instrumental in the creation of North America’s most respected and most-read grocery industry magazine, Grocery Business, and continues to contribute and inspire ideas for the publication.