Gourmet food products business enjoys ecommerce boost

Innovative Food Holdings, which provides chefs and consumers direct access to specialty food products as well as gift boxes and other curated products, is enjoying a big bite of the pandemic-driven ecommerce boon.

The Bonita Springs-based publicly traded company, according to a statement, posted $10.5 million in ecommerce sales in the 2020 fourth quarter — a 90% increase over $5.5 million from the 2019 fourth quarter. Visitors to the firm’s website also nearly doubled year-over-year, from 1 million to 1.9 million. It had some 1 million website visitors in December 2020 alone, the release states, compared to 500,000 in December 2019.