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FDF Award 2015 – Categories

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Josh Gustav

Last Updated: 3, June 2024
 






Company categories 2015

Individual categories 2015

Company categories

Community Partner

Submit your Community Partner application online

or

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Are you making a difference in your community?

Many food and drink supply chain companies work closely with their
communities
and this can either be a physical community, such as those living close to the
factory; a specific sector of society or even an online community.

We are looking for companies that have carried out stand-out work with their
chosen community and made a positive difference.


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Education Initiative

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or

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Many companies work positively with schools and colleges to encourage interest
in food and drink manufacturing and help to facilitate employment opportunities
for young people.

Nominations could be for a one-off event, an ongoing contribution to lessons,
schemes to experience the world of work or develop employability skills.

Entries can be made for local or national initiatives.

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Environmental Leadership

Submit your Environmental Leadership application online

or

Download an application form

Everyone is looking to produce more with less and with less impact on the
environment. Our Environmental Leadership category is for companies that can
meet
either of the criteria below:

  • Embedding sustainability throughout a product from development right through to
    customer use and disposal
  • Ground-breaking initiatives to reduce your company’s impact on the planet

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Exporter of the Year

Submit your Exporter of the Year application online

or

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British food and drink has never been more popular and exports continue to be a
key area for growth. This category is for companies that are entering new
markets, creating targeted products or growing sales in established markets. It
is
open to manufacturers but also to intermediary companies. The judges will look
at
achievement and ambition relative to the size of the company, not just the
largest sales figures!

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Good Employer

Submit your Good Employer application online

or

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Employee recruitment and retention is important to a successful company, so show
us how your company is a great place to work. Initiatives under this category
must specifically benefit your employees and could include employee support,
innovative training, workplace wellbeing or an ‘above and beyond’ approach to
flexibility.


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Growth Business

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or

Download an application form

Are you a food and drink success story? Entrants to this category need to show
our judges how they have successfully grown their business during 2014. We will
be awarding our winner based on achievement relative to company size so both
large and small companies stand an equal chance of claiming this prestigious
award
as we will also be looking at the sustainability and ambition of growth.

Growth can be through increased sales; capacity and resource expansion,
developing new and innovative product lines or even impressive first-year
achievements
after starting from scratch.





Grant Thornton UK LLP

Proudly sponsors Growth Business


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Health and Wellbeing Champion

Submit your Health and Wellbeing Champion application online

or

Download an application form

Food and drink manufacturers are working hard to make a difference to the
nation’s health and this is the category to enter if you want to be recognised.
Entries for this category can include product reformulations, or any other
initiatives
to encourage healthier lifestyles amongst customers.



Nestle

Proudly sponsors Health and Wellbeing Champion


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Innovation

Submit your Innovation application online

or

Download an application form

Many companies within our industry do exceptional work, creating products or
developing new ways of thinking and working. Entrants must show:

  • Significant development achieved over the past three years in either product
    research and/or development in the food supply chain eg reformulation,
    developing
    new ingredients to cut waste or improve yield

OR

  • A significant and innovative change to the way you do business eg processes,
    packaging or logistics



apetito

Proudly sponsors Innovation


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Campaign of the Year

Submit your Campaign of the Year application online

or

Download an application form

Companies are becoming ever-more innovative in communicating with their
audiences. This category is for in-house or agency teams to enter campaigns
centering on
sales, driving behaviour change, launches, research or increasing awareness.
The
campaign can utilise a variety of media including digital, PR or marketing.

The judges will be looking for campaigns that are strongly evaluated against
their original aims. Success will be considered against the original objectives
and
should include a variety of measurement of success, not just AVE or ‘likes’.
The
judges will be looking for a campaign that is creative, achieves its
objectives,
is clearly evaluated and robustly demonstrates value for money.

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Individual categories

Apprentice of the Year

Submit your Apprentice of the Year application online

or

Download an application form

There are more apprentices than ever in the food and drink supply chain and
these are the potential industry leaders of the future. Our Apprentice of the
Year will have shown exceptional progress in both their skills development and
studies or made an exceptional contribution to the business through a one-off
project.

Those nominated must be undertaking their apprenticeship at the time of
nomination. The nomination can be made by a line manager, HR representative or
college
tutor.





Aktrion Food & Drink

Proudly sponsors Apprentice of the Year



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Community Champion

Submit your Community Champion application online

or

Download an application form

Have you got an exceptional colleague that is driving community engagement? We
are looking for our Community Champion who, through their daily activities,
works
to align their business with others’ needs. It could be someone who works
directly with charities, raises money in the workplace or ensures that the
needs of
communities are taken into account with business strategies or product
development.

The community work can be undertaken during or outside of work time but there
must be some link with employment. Nominations can be made by line
managers,
colleagues or HR managers.


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Food & Drink Scientist of the Year

Submit your Food & Drink Scientist of the Year application online

or

Download an application form

Scientific developments help to give our industry its competitive edge and we
are fortunate to have many talented scientists working within our sector. This
award will recognise someone who has made an exceptional contribution to the
food
and drink sector.

Nominees must:

  • Be currently employed within the UK food and drink manufacturing sector
  • Have contributed to product development over a sustained period or be a
    promising new entrant to the industry who has led at least one significant
    project
  • Be a positive role model/ambassador within the company and externally
  • Go ‘above and beyond’ as an exceptional employee in both their work and
    behaviours

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Food & Drink Engineer of the Year

Submit your Food & Drink Engineer of the Year application online

or

Download an application form

Engineering skills are essential for our industry to grow 20% by 2020 and we
want to recognise the people that will make this happen. Entrants can be
nominated
by a colleague, line manager or self nominate.

Nominees must

  • Be currently employed within the UK food and drink manufacturing sector
  • Have contributed to product development over a sustained period or be a
    promising new entrant to the industry who has led at least one significant
    project
  • Be a positive role model/ambassador within the company and externally
  • Go ‘above and beyond’ as an exceptional employee in both their work and
    behaviours



Sheffield Hallam University

Proudly sponsors Food & Drink Engineer of the Year



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Rising Star

Submit your Rising Star application online

or

Download an application form

We’re looking for the bright sparks of the food and drink industry with this
brand new award category. Open to entrants within their first five years in the
industry at any academic and training level, the Rising Star category is for
the
people with the potential to go far. Nominations can be made by line managers
or
HR managers.




Pepsico

Proudly sponsors the Rising Star category



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Exporter of the Year (individual)

Submit your Exporter of the Year application online

or

Download an application form

Exports are key to UK food and drink growth. This category celebrates an
individual working within food and drink who is helping to drive UK exports.
You could
be working in-house within a manufacturing company or consultancy to drive
sales
and open up new markets, or working at a policy level to remove barriers to
export and increase opportunities for example within an NGO, consultancy or
Government.

Nominations will be able to demonstrate the individual’s understanding of the
food and drink exports landscape; how they have contributed and how they are
enthusiast and ambassador for exports within the company and/or within the
wider
industry.

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Last reviewed: 19 Dec 2014