The Second Harvest Community Food Bank’s 2014 Corporate Food Fight Challenge surpasses its goal by more than 20,000 pounds.

11 area companies competed in the challenge to try and see who could raise the most food in donations and funds for the food bank.

This year’s goal was 60,000 pounds of food, which represented about 46,000 meals for families and individuals in Northwest Missouri served by Second Harvest. Competing companies ended up raising 81,609 pounds of food between food donations and funds. That’s 33-percent more than the agency’s goal.

Companies were divided into categories based on the number of employees at each business. Northwest Financial Service won the Spoon category with one to 25 employees raising 514 pounds of food.

Pepsi Beverage Company raised 3,169 pounds in the Ladle category which included companies with 26 to 100 employees.

The Soup category included companies with 101 to 200 employees and that winner was Apple Market raising 43,739 pounds.

American Family Insurance won the Stock Pot category which included companies with more than 201 employees. American Family raised 21,306 pounds of food.

An awards luncheon for the businesses that participated will take place at 11:30 on November 5, at Luna’s.