Some of the industry’s newest and most ingenious products have been recognised at Fine Food’s New Product Awards.
Announced on 16 September, the awards put the spotlight on new and innovative food service products and equipment recently launched into the market.
Exhibition manager, Minnie Constan said “We are all part of a dynamic, exciting and ever evolving industry and events such as the New Product Awards are a great opportunity to celebrate everything that is great about the business we are in.”
The winners for 2014 are:
Food Service Awards
Winner: Freedom Foods for their Almond Breeze Barista Milk
Runner-up: Biozone Scientific for their product Icezone
Runner-up: Lamb Weston for their product Ultrahold Fries
Bakery Awards
Winner: Simple Simon Pie Machines for their True Blue Pie Machines
Runner-up: Macpan Australia for their product Macpan Cyclops
Runner-up: Monika for their product Monika Pathfinder
Retail Awards
Winner: Rinoldi Pasta for their Vetta Smart Pasta
Runner-up: White Prince Mushrooms for their product White Prince Crumbled Mushroom
Runner-up: Lotus & Ming for their Grab & Go Steam Box
Australian Made Awards
Winner: Borthwick Food Group for their Cocktail Angus Burger Kit
Daylesford and Hepburn Mineral Spring for their Tonic Water
Eurostore for their product Neha Ice Cream
Hospitality Awards
Winner: Coolsan Australia for their product Chillsafe
Runner-up: Biozone Scientific for their product Icezone
Runner-up: Monika for their product Monika Pathfinder
The Hospitality award recognised leading-edge equipment in the industry, and was sponsored by Hospitality magazine, a fellow Cirrus Media publication.
The winner of this category was Chillsafe, a sustainable chemical disinfection process, which uses Reactive Oxygen Species as the disinfection agent to reduce microbial load. The process is safe to use and leaves no chemical residues on any surfaces as the only chemicals to contact the surfaces are reactive oxygen molecules.
The product costs hospitality businesses roughly $1 a day and can extend food’s shelf life by sanitising cool rooms, shipping containers and storage facilities.
Fine Food is an industry trade show targeting foodservice businesses, manufacturers and suppliers.