Food manufacturing awards: winners wanted to match Weetabix

Landing the top prize last year is still reaping rewards for Weetabix, according to Mark Edwards, business unit operations manager   

“Winning the Food Manufacturing Company of the Year Award was the culmination of a major drive for performance improvement that was achieved through the direct engagement and involvement of our people,” he told FoodManufacture.co.uk.

Better place to work

“This has proven to be just the start and subsequently we have moved towards greater levels of involvement in delivering business objectives, which has created further improvement, better understanding of the drivers for improvement on the shop floor and I feel it has made Weetabix a better place to work. Most importantly, Weetabix is now better equipped to respond to the needs of our customers and the market place.”

Awards will be made for the Best Manufacturing Company of the Year in the following categories:

·         Ambient

·         Bakery

·         Beverages

·         Chilled

·         Dairy

·         Fresh

·         Frozen

·         Meat & Poultry

·         Seafood.

Special awards

This year there are also five special awards:

·         Food Manufacturing Company of the Year

·         Training Programme of the Year

·         Environmental Initiative of the Year

·         Small Company of the Year

·         Judges' Special Award.

The closing date for entries is July 31.