Food and Drink Federation Awards 2017
Sponsored by Santander
The awards are fast becoming the industry benchmark of excellence for
innovation, competitiveness and talent.
Awards entries are now closed for most categories.
Only the Regional Growth Business Awards category is still available to enter:
Does your company get noticed
as the best in its field?
Have you got an exceptional colleague
deserving the limelight?
- The UK food and drink industry is bursting with bright
ideas and talented individuals so make sure your
company gets the national recognition it
deserves
- Take credit for your achievements - will anyone else do
it for you?
Make sure your customers know that your company
makes a
difference in the environment, to health or to local
communities
Show how your colleagues are the best in the field and how
your
company nurtures talented employees
Who can enter?
- Food and drink manufacturers
- Retailers, producers, growers, hospitality
- Sectors working with the food and drink supply chain
including
researchers, distributors, health, local authorities,
education providers
View categories and
download entry forms
Upload completed entry form
Company categories 2017
- Campaign of the year - entries are now closed
- Community Partner - entries are now closed
- Education Initiative - entries are now closed
- Environmental Leadership - entries are now closed
- Exporter of the Year - entries are now closed
- Good Employer - entries are now closed
- Regional Growth Business
Awards
- Health - entries are now closed
- Innovation - entries are now closed
Individual categories 2017
- Apprentice of the Year - entries are now closed
- Community Champion - entries are now closed
- Food and Drink Scientist of the
Year - entries are now closed
- Food and Drink Engineer of the
Year - entries are now closed
- Rising Star - entries are now closed
Company categories
Campaign of the Year
Companies are becoming ever-more innovative in
communicating with their
audiences. This category is for in-house or agency teams
to enter campaigns
centering on
sales; driving behaviour change, launches, research or
increasing awareness.
The
campaign can utilise a variety of media including digital,
PR or marketing.
The judges will be looking for campaigns that are strongly
evaluated against
their original aims. Success will be considered against the
original objectives
and
should include a variety of measurement of success, not
just AVE or 'likes'.
The
judges will be looking for a campaign that is creative,
achieves its
objectives,
is clearly evaluated and robustly demonstrates its value
for money.
View 2016 winner case study
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Community Partner
Sponsored by General Mills UK
Are you making a difference in your community?
Many food and drink supply chain companies work
closely with their
communities
and this can either be a physical community, such as
those living close to the
factory; a specific sector of society or even an online
community.
We are looking for companies that have carried out stand-
out work with their
chosen community and made a positive difference.
View 2016 winners case studies:
KP Snacks: View case study
Warburtons: View case study
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Education Initiative
Many companies work positively with schools and colleges
to encourage interest
in food and drink manufacturing and help to facilitate
employment opportunities
for young people.
Nominations could be for a one-off event, an ongoing
contribution to lessons,
schemes to experience the world of work or develop
employability skills.
Entries can be made for local or national initiatives.
View 2016 winner case study
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Environmental Leadership
Everyone is looking to produce more with less and with
less impact on the
environment. Our Environmental Leadership category is
for companies that can
meet
either of the criteria below:
- Embedding sustainability throughout a product from
development right through to
customer use and disposal
- Ground-breaking initiatives to reduce your company's
impact on the planet
View 2016 winner case study
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Exporter of the Year
Sponsored by Santander
British food and drink has never been more popular and
exports continue to be a
key area for growth. This category is for companies that
are entering new
markets, creating targeted products or growing sales in
established markets. It
is
open to manufacturers but also to intermediary
companies. The judges will look
at
achievement and ambition relative to the size of the
company, not just the
largest sales figures!
View 2016 winner case study
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Good Employer
Employee recruitment and retention is important to a
successful company, so show
us how your company is a great place to work. Initiatives
under this category
must specifically benefit your employees and could
include employee support,
innovative training, workplace wellbeing or an 'above and
beyond' approach to
flexibility.
View 2016 winner case study
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Regional Growth Business Awards
Sponsored by Grant Thornton UK LLP
This year, we will be recognising a winner from each region
and country of the
UK in our Growth Business award category. We are
looking to find the best
inspiring and thriving food or drink producer from each
area.
The six regions are:
- South East England
London, Hertfordshire, Essex, Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire,
Berkshire, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Isle of
Wight
- South West England
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire,
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire,
Channel and Scilly Isles
- Central England
Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Worcestershire,
Warwickshire,
Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland,
Lincolnshire, Shropshire,
Staffordshire
- Wales
- Northern England
Cumbria, Northumberland, Durham, Nottinghamshire,
Derbyshire, Yorkshire,
Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater
Manchester
- Scotland and Northern Ireland
We will be awarding our winner based on achievement
relative to company size so
both large and small companies stand an equal chance of
claiming this
prestigious award as we will also be looking at the
sustainability and ambition
of growth.
Growth can be through increased sales, capacity and
resource expansion,
developing new and innovative product lines or even
impressive first-year
achievements
after starting from scratch. In short, if you think your
business is fabulous,
enter and tell us why.
View 2016 Growth award winner's case studies:
Central England and Wales: Sleaford Quality Foods
South East England: The Bread Factory
South West England: Clipper Teas
Northern England and overall winner: Karro Food Group
Scotland and Northern Ireland: Macsween of Edinburgh
For more information email events@fdf.org.uk
Download entry
form
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Health
How a company has made a contribution to the health and
wellbeing of its
customers, either through:
- Product reformulation , changing recipes to reduce
salt, fat and sugar content
or increasing fibre or vegetable composition
- Focusing on portion sizes and offering a range of
smaller or more adaptable
products to encourage healthy eating
- Creating new products – helping people achieve
dietary targets
The category is open to all sizes of companies and
achievement will be judged on
the following criteria:
- The business case. As well as being the right thing to
do, how did you project
fit in with the organisation's wider objectives and
business plan
- Research and evidence. All submissions should
clearly show not only the need
for the project but also the research, evidence and
testing used to support the
project
- The reach of the project. Each submission should
clearly show the audience
reached and how the change will motivate this
audience to focus on health and
wellbeing
- The development process. Whether it is an original
concept or extension of
existing work, the judges need to see the steps from
concept to final project
delivery
- Outcomes. Each entry should show it has delivered a
difference to improving the
health of its consumers
View 2016 Growth award winner's case studies:
Health and Wellbeing: Little Dish
Product reformulation: Premier Foods – Homepride range
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Innovation
Sponsored by Omron
Many companies within our industry do exceptional work,
creating products or
developing new ways of thinking and working. Entrants
must show either of these:
- Significant development achieved over the past three
years in either product
research and/or Development in the food supply
chain eg developing new
ingredients to cut waste or improve yield
OR
- A significant and innovative change to the way you do
business eg processes,
packaging or logistics
View 2016 winner case study
Individual categories
Apprentice of the Year
Sponsored by AKTRION FOOD
There are more apprentices than ever in the food and drink
supply chain and
these are the potential industry leaders of the future. Our
Apprentice of the
Year will have shown exceptional progress in both their
skills development and
studies or made an exceptional contribution to the
business through a one-off
project.
Those nominated must be undertaking their
apprenticeship at the time of
nomination. The nomination can be made by a line
manager, HR representative or
college
tutor.
View 2016 winner case study
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Community Champion
Sponsored by Santander
Have you got an exceptional colleague that is driving
community engagement? We
are looking for our Community Champion who, through
their daily activities,
works
to align their business with others' needs. It could be
someone who works
directly with charities, raises money in the workplace or
ensures that the
needs of
communities are taken into account with business
strategies or product
development.
The community work can be undertaken during or outside
of work time but there
must be some link with employment. Nominations can be
made by line
managers,
colleagues or HR managers.
View 2016 winner case study
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Food & Drink Scientist of the Year
Scientific developments help to give our industry its
competitive edge and we
are fortunate to have many talented scientists working
within our sector. This
award will recognise someone who has made an
exceptional contribution to the
food
and drink sector.
Nominees must:
- Be currently employed within the UK food and drink
manufacturing sector
- Have contributed to product development over a
sustained period or be a
promising new entrant to the industry who has led at
least one significant
project
- Be a positive role model/ambassador within the
company and externally
- Go 'above and beyond' as an exceptional employee in
both their work and
behaviours
View 2016 winner case study
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Food & Drink Engineer of the Year
Sponsored by Sheffield Hallam University
Engineering skills are essential for our industry to grow
20% by 2020 and we
want to recognise the people that will make this happen.
Entrants can be
nominated
by a colleague, line manager or self nominate.
Nominees must
- Be currently employed within the UK food and drink
manufacturing sector
- Have contributed to product development over a
sustained period or be a
promising new entrant to the industry who has led at
least one significant
project
- Be a positive role model/ambassador within the
company and externally
- Go 'above and beyond' as an exceptional employee in
both their work and
behaviours
View 2016 winner case study
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Rising Star
Sponsored by PepsiCo UK
We're looking for the bright sparks of the food and drink
industry with this
brand new award category. Open to entrants within their
first five years in the
industry at any academic and training level, the Rising Star
category is for
the
people with the potential to go far. Nominations can be
made by line managers
or
HR managers.
View 2016 winner case study
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