SCOTLAND FOOD & DRINK EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Top Food Products And Companies Short-Listed
For Excellence Awards
Almost forty Scottish food and drink products
plus a number of companies involved in the £7.5 billion sector have now been
short-listed for the 2009 Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards.
The short-list includes two new categories for
food and drink tourism and product innovation.
For the first time, the public will have a say
in deciding one of the awards. The four companies short-listed for the tourism
award are to feature on STV's 5.30 show and viewers will be asked to vote for
their favourite. The companies are Cocoa Mountain,
Durness; Cream o' Galloway, Castle Douglas; Craigie's Farm Shop and Café, South
Queensferry; and Monachyle Mhor Hotel,
Balquhidder.
The product innovation award finalists, already
judged by the award tasting panel, includes a special reserve ale from
Harvieston Brewery, Alva, venison rashers from Carmichael Estate Farm Meats,
Biggar, a range of jams from SuperJam, Edinburgh, and pesticide free
strawberries, raspberries and blueberries packed in recyclable and compostable
punnets and sleeves from Angus Soft Fruits, Arbroath.
Angus Soft Fruits won the Supreme Award in 2008
with Good Natured Fruit and this year the company has been shortlisted in four
categories.
Three of the sixteen categories have still to
be short-listed and judged - Profiting Through Skills, which is new for 2009,
International Business of the Year and Success Through Working in Partnerships.
In addition to individual category awards,
there are two supreme awards for 2009 - Product of the Year and Business of the
Year.
The winners will be announced at a presentation ceremony and dinner in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum on
May 7.
The Scotland Food & Drink Excellence
Awards, now in their eighth year, are organised and co-sponsored by the Royal
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland and Scotland Food & Drink.
Other sponsors include The Grocer, Scottish Enterprise, Envirowise, Food &
Health Alliance, Scottish Development International, Scottish Agricultural
Organisation Society, Sodexo, VisitScotland and the food and drink sector
skills council Improve.
The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
promotes primary production within the food chain and provides a platform
for downstream processors, producers and retailers by staging the
prestigious "Food and Drink at the Royal Highland" exhibition visited by
160,000 consumers at the Royal Highland Show. Further information on the
Society is available at www.rhass.org.uk
Scotland Food & Drink is the industry-led organisation which
aims to grow the value of Scotland's food and drink sector, make it
more profitable and deliver greater global success in a fiercely
competitive market. Its mission is to grow the industry from £7.5bn to
£10bn by 2017 and its vision is to build Scotland's international
reputation as "A Land of Food and Drink".
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Scotland Food & Drink
Excellence Awards 2009 - Short-listed Products & Companies
Retail
- Soup, Preserve, Accompaniments
Great Clydesdale Food Company, Carmichael,
South Lanarkshire
- Fresh Soups
Summer Harvest, Madderty, Crieff - Extra Virgin
Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil
Baxters Food Group, Glasgow - Deli Inspired Soup Range
Retail
- Fish & Seafood
Salar Smokehouse, South Uist - Flaky Smoked
Salmon
Scottish Seafarms, Stirling
- Lochmuir Salmon
Retail
- Bakery & Cereal Based
Border Biscuits, Lanark - Deliciously Different
Range
Lazy Day Foods, Chapelhall, Lanarkshire -
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Lazy Day Foods - Iced Rich Fruit Cake
Retail - Meat - Red, White & Game
Simon Howie Butchers, Dunning, Perthshire -
Scottish Dry Cure Bacon
Castle MacLellan Foods, Kirkcudbright - Best of British Waitrose Pate Slices
Carmichael
Estate Farm Meats, Biggar - Venison Rashers
Retail
- Drink - Alcoholic & Non-Alcholic
Berry Good, Watten, Caithness
- Berry
Good Vodka Infused With Scottish Berries
Gordon & MacPhail, Elgin -
Benromach Origins Batch 1 Golden Promise Malt Whisky
Balliol, Colvend, Dalbeattie- Fruitie Cutie Strawberry Cream Liqueur
Retail
- Fruit or Vegetable Product
Castle MacLellan Foods - Marks & Spencer
Butternut Squash Pate
SuperJam, Edinburgh - SuperJam Range
Angus Soft Fruits, Arbroath - Good Natured
Fruit
Retail
- Dairy, Confectionery & Snacking
Golden Casket Group, Greenock
- Buchanan's Fair Trade Range Of Confections
Graham's The Family Dairy, Bridge of Allan -
Graham's Gold Jersey Dairy Products
In House Chocolates, Castle Douglas
- The Burns Collection
Food
Service
Iain Burnett, The Highland
Chocolatier, Grandtully, Perthshire - The Velvet Truffle
Lazy Day Foods - Catering Selection Free-from
Biscuits & Tray Bakes
Caithness
Smokehouse, Barrock - Hot & Cold Smoked Salmon
Product
Innovation
Harvieston Brewery, Alva - Ola Dubh Special
Reserve Ale
Angus Soft Fruits - Good Natured Fruit
Carmichael
Estate Farm Meats - Venison Rashers
SuperJam - SuperJam Range
Healthy
Eating
Summer Harvest - Extra Virgin Cold Pressed
Rapeseed Oil
Baxters Food Group - Healthy Choice Chunky
Soups
Marketing
Initiative Of The Year
Angus Soft Fruits
Gordon & MacPhail
Graham's The Family Dairy
Environmental
Sustainability
Angus Soft Fruits
Macsween of Edinburgh, Loanhead
Food
Tourism
Cocoa
Mountain,
Durness, Lairg
Craigie's Farm Shop and Café, South
Queensferry
Cream o' Galloway Dairy Company, Gatehouse of
Fleet
Monachyle Mohr Hotel, Balquhidder
The International Business of the Year,
Profiting Through Skills and Success Through Working In Partnerships categories
have still to be short-listed for final judging.
April
7, 2009
Issued by: Ross Muir of
O'LearyRMPR, Dunfermline
Business Centre, Izatt
Avenue, Dunfermline KY11 3BZ
Further information:
Ross Muir on 01383 432608 or 07971 041853 or [email protected]
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