Nancy Gamber
CEO
Dutch Gold Honey
The largest independent honey packaging company in the U.S., according to its website, Dutch Gold was founded by Gamber’s father, Ralph, in 1946, with three beehives he purchased at auction for $27.
In a 2020 profile in Fig Lancaster, Gamber said her first job in the business when she reached working age was “the vital task of hand painting the eyes and noses of those iconic, squeezable plastic honey bears.”
“I felt as if this was my path,” she told the magazine of carrying on the family legacy. The Gamber family also established the Gamber Foundation in 1984, to which they have donated millions. Funds go to local charities as well as to ecological research and development to protect honeybee and sugar maple populations. One beneficiary is the Dutch Gold Honey and William R. Gamber II Endowment in Entomology that supports undergraduates in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
