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In 1969 Annie Watts graduated from the Department of Foods & Nutrition with a BS in Foods & Nutrition in Business with highest distinction. She has leveraged this degree well into a career as a marketing communications consultant and home economist with 30+ years of food industry experience. She held consumer affairs and marketing services positions with Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.; Campbell Soup Company; and Borden, Inc. before beginning her own business in 1992.
A native of southern Indiana, Annie has studied at LaVarenne, Paris, and with Simone Beck in Grasse, France. She has traveled with food writers to Bangkok and Vietnam and has also studied the culinary traditions of Mexico’s Colonial Heartland.
A former 10-year 4-H member in Jackson and Spencer Counties, Annie has incorporated those skills and connections into her career and is President Emeritus of the Indiana 4-H Foundation Board of Directors. Both for the 4-H Foundation and for clients such as the American Dairy Association of Indiana, she has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and in public presentations.
Her clients include Cabot Creamery Cooperative, maker of award-winning Vermont cheddar cheeses, for whom she currently serves as Central Region Marketing Manager; and American Trim, a metal products design, trim and forming company which serves the appliance and transportation industries. Additional companies she has represented include McCormick & Company, Inc.; Clabber Girl Corporation; Indian Pork Producers Association; Edelman Public Relations Worldwide; and Indiana Farm Bureau, et al.
She is a frequent speaker on consumer food trends. Her consulting business provides expertise on consumer products and trends in the food industry as they pertain to marketing strategy development and execution. For consumer and food service publications, she provides recipe development, writing and editing, editorial writing and communications. She manages special events for clients, including coordination of media communications.
Annie is President and a Founding Member of the Consumer Science Business Professionals (now Association for Consumer Trends). She is Past Chairman of the Indiana Consumer Science Business Professionals (now Indiana Consumer Trends Council) and Past National Chairman of Home Economists in Business (HEIB). She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Purdue College of Consumer and Family Sciences Alumni Association and the Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce.
She is the recipient of numerous professional honors and awards including Distinguished Alumni of the College of Consumer and Family Sciences, Purdue University, 1991, and the 1969 Flora Roberts medal recipient as the Outstanding Senior Woman of Purdue University.
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