Central Illinois Foodbank wrapped up its 14th Annual Corporate Food Fight Challenge with 18 businesses participating in the food, funds and friends drive.

Central Illinois Foodbank held its Corporate Food Fight Challenge awards breakfast on Thursday, October 26th. The breakfast recognized the 13 businesses that participated in this year's challenge, which included: Bank of Springfield, Hickory Point Bank, BUNN, Horace Mann, Staff Carpet, Memorial, United Community Bank, ACE Hardware, Allscripts, TROXELL and Kerber, Eck, & Braekel.

Central Illinois Foodbank kicks off the 10th Annual Corporate Food Fight Challenge this month with a goal of getting 25 businesses to compete in the food, funds and friends drive. In 2016, over $24,000 was raised by 20 businesses, who also logged 353 volunteer hours and donated over 9,700 pounds of food.