Winners with a ladleful of awards
 

Winners with a ladleful of food awards

It’s official. We’re winners.  We’ve known for ages that our products are super tasty, but even it’s even better when we hear it from others across our industry.  So we were so pleased to hit the double recently with wins at both the Quality Food Awards and also The Grocer’s New Product Awards.

Quality Food Awards 2020

It all started at the Quality Awards on Wednesday 12th, as we watched on virtually to see our Vadasz and unearthed® brands win their categories.

Imagine our delight to see that Vadasz were crowned winners with their Red Onion Pickles in the pickles and ferments category

But ALSO unearthed®’s Middle Eastern Mezze – Whipped Goats Cheese with Roasted Butternut Squash & Chickpea won in the dips category

A double celebration of which unearthed®’s brand manager Carrie Hollis-Patel said of the win:

This one was a huge team effort – over 18 months to get this product (and range) on the shelf and we’re thrilled our hard work and excellence is recognised

You can see the full list of winners here

The Grocer – New Product Award winners

We were on edge again yesterday when we watched the virtual awards, to see how our Squeaky Bean brand would fare in both the Vegetarian/Vegan savoury and sweet categories.

Sadly we were pipped at the post for the savoury category (well done Richmonds Meat-Free Sausages). However our delicious Squeaky Bean Fluffy American Pancakes were announced as winners.

This is a fantastic achievement and we were so happy with the judges comments…

“This winner brought an excellent tasting free-from option to consumer which really delivers on taste at a solid price-point which keeps them accessible to the mainstream. Awesome, I couldn’t even tell they were plant-based taste

So now we’ve got another year to go and get creating some fantastic NPD with the hope of creating more winners!

To see where our brand ranges are stocked, click here

November 20, 2020

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