There’s a brand new child on this child model’s block.
Gerber topped Child Akil “Sonny” McLeod from Arizona — who has “a vibrant smile, joyful character and sunny disposition” — because the winner of its 2024 Gerber Child Picture Search.
“Sonny instantly captured our hearts together with his joyful smile and his household’s heartwarming demonstration of what it means to develop with love,” Chandra Kumar, president of Nestlé Vitamin, which owns Gerber, stated in an announcement.
The enduring 97-year-old child meals firm, which can publish Sonny on its social media channels and advertising campaigns for one yr, referred to as him “our latest Gerber Child & Chief Rising Officer.”
Sonny has roots within the Massive Apple, as his mother and father, Dominique, a stay-at-home mother, and Akil Sr., an entrepreneur, each grew up in New York, in line with Gerber’s web site.
The toddler, who turned 1 on June 20 and has a giant sister named Sage, “loves his squishy ABC Guide, toy automobiles and taking part in together with his toy pots and pans whereas his mother cooks dinner.”
“We couldn’t have requested for a greater approach to have a good time his first birthday than to be chosen because the 2024 Gerber Child,” Dominique stated in an announcement. “We sit up for all of the adventures within the yr forward collaborating with Gerber to share his candy smile with households throughout the nation.”
Though Akil was named after his dad, he bought his nickname ‘Sonny’ whereas Dominique was pregnant and seen a “vibrant beam of sunshine streaming by way of the window instantly onto her stomach.”
“She instantly thought, ‘That’s my little sunny boy!’” Gerber reported.
That is the Gerber Child Picture Search competitors’s 14th yr, and annually “tens of hundreds of photographs” are submitted by “mother and father who see their infant in Gerber’s iconic child emblem.”
As its winner, Sonny and his household received a $25,000 money grand prize, a yr of free Gerber merchandise and a $500 wardrobe from its clothes line.
The infant may also be awarded objects from firms reminiscent of Brooklinen, Canon, UPPABaby, Little Tikes, Motherhood Maternity and ezpz.
Gerber additionally donates one other $25,000 to March of Dimes’ maternal and toddler well being packages.
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