Good Food has announced the nine category winners of the inaugural Good Food SME Awards, celebrating the small and medium-sized businesses whose innovation, creativity and commitment are making an impact in the food, drink and health industry.
The nine category winners are as follows:
BEST CREATIVE/BRANDING
Winner: Miss Kim
Highly commended: Alkmonton Dairy
FAMILY-RUN BUSINESS AWARD
Winner: The Jolly Hog
Highly commended: Chutree and Peasy
BEST INNOVATION
Winner: One Good Thing (OGT)
Highly commended: HOLOS
BEST SOCIAL VOICE
Winner: BOSH!
Highly commended: Renais
INSPIRING FOUNDER
Winner: Veg Life
Highly commended: Superkeen
BEST STORYTELLING OF A BRAND
Winner: The Jolly Hog
Highly commended: Superkeen
SUSTAINABILITY & CSR AWARD
Winner: ChangeKitchen CIC
Highly commended: Wildfarmed
GOOD HEALTH BY GOOD FOOD AWARD
Winner: The Ferm
Highly commended: Citizens of Soil
DISRUPTOR AWARD
Winner: All Things
Highly commended: simplicity
All winners will be included in digital advertorial and print advertorial features alongside other category winners on the Good Food website and magazine, plus 10% off their next media campaign with Good Food, says the publisher.
The overall winner, who will receive £25,000 of promotional media spend across Good Food platforms which can include print, podcasts and digital allowing them to reach 16 million food lovers, the publisher continued. The winner, who will be announced at the Good Food Summer Show will also receive a stand at the Good Food Show Winter at Birmingham’s NEC, worth up to £15,000.
Winners were selected by an expert judging panel including Mex Ibrahim, co-founder of Women in the Food Industry; Good Food's Head of Brand Trust, Lulu Grimes; business growth expert, Saskia Roberts; Immediate's Food Portfolio Health Editor, Emma Hartfield; Immediate's Chief Commercial Officer, Christina Hawley; Dan Hutson, MD of Nutracheck; and Good Food's Senior Food Editor Barney Desmazery.
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