There’s not much longer to wait until the winners are revealed on the big night .
The shortlisted candidates are:
• Ambient Company of the Year: Burts Chips; Greencore Grocery; Mars Food; and Moguntia Food Ingredients
• Bakery Company of the Year: Allied Bakeries; Butt Foods; and Walker & Son
• Cakes and Biscuits Company of the Year: Border Biscuits; Rich Products; and American Muffin
• Beverages Company of the Year: Britvic Soft Drinks; and Solution Sciences
• Chilled and Fresh Company of the Year: Greencore Northampton; Hazeldene; Mash Direct; and Raynor Foods
• Ice Cream Company of the Year: Fredericks Dairies; and R&R Ice Cream
• Frozen Company of the Year: Green Gourmet; Iglo Food Group; and Lewis Meat and Pasty Co
• Protein Company of the Year: Adams Foods; Dawn Meats Group; Lossie Seafoods; Taste Tradition; Young’s Seafood
• Environmental Initiative of the Year: Coca-Cola Enterprises; Kelly’s of Cornwall; Premier Foods; Young’s Seafood; and United Biscuits
• Training Programme of the Year: Bakkavör – Hitchen Foods; Britvic Soft Drinks; Fairfax Meadow; Greencore Grocery; and Tillery Valley
• Small Company of the Year: Butt Foods; Mash Direct; Moguntia Food Ingredients; and Raynor Foods
At the November event, awards will also be made for:
• Food Manufacturing Company of the Year, selected from the winners of the eight individual sector categories
• Judges’ Special Award will be made to the company which the judging panel believe deserves recognition for one particular area of its activities.
• Personality of the Year
Candidates in the Personality of the Year Shortlist are:
• Judy Buttriss, director general, British Nutrition Foundation
• Michael Clarke, ceo, Premier Foods
• Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, TV personality, chef and fisheries campaigner
• James Lambert, chief executive R&R Ice Cream
• Levi Roots, food entrepreneur
• Perween Warsi, food entrepreneur
