CALLING all Limerick food and drink companies and producers, does your product have what it takes to win an @IrishQFAs Irish Quality Food or Drink Award?
All retailers, food producers and manufacturers in Limerick and across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are invited to enter products for the chance to achieve industry acclaim in these prestigious awards.
Now in their fourth glorious year, the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards recognise excellence in products available to Irish consumers, and with categories enhanced for 2016, there are even more opportunities to impress the team of expert judges.
Once again, the judging will take place over four weeks in June and July at the Dublin Institute of Technology’s School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology. The results will be announced at a sumptuous gala dinner in September at the Round Room at the Mansion House.
Repeating last year’s trade-media partnership with Retail News magazine, and consumer-media partnership with Easy Food magazine, the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards 2016 place your food and drink products onto the tables you need for success.
The awards themselves are organised into two distinct sections: Irish Quality Food Awards – products for the multiple and independent grocery retail market and the Irish Quality Drink Awards – alcoholic drinks for the retail sector. Following the success of its inaugural year, the Irish Café Quality Food Awards has also launched again to recognise excellence in foodservice.
Organised by Metropolis Business Media, Group Events Manager Lara Newton comments: “We are absolutely delighted with the growing success of these awards and so pleased to be preparing a fabulous event for 2016. As former winners can testify, picking up an Irish Quality Food and Drink Award is a powerful marketing tool, with many winners using the awards’ logos on their packaging and in national press, television and outdoor advertising.”
“We listen to our partners in the industry and have introduced detailed category definitions which we hope will encourage even more people to enter and enjoy showcasing their success.”
Full category descriptions are detailed on the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards website: Irish Quality Food Awards
Entries for the awards, which are once again headline sponsored by innovative packaging company Graphic Packaging International, will be accepted until 25 May 2016 and judging will take place from 23 June to 14 July 2016.
The IQFA are also sponsored by the Coeliac Society of Ireland, who will play an important role during the stringent judging process of the expanded ‘Free From’ categories, Dairymaid, Invest Northern Ireland and Sacla’.
Award partners include ADCreative and IFEX.
Make sure you stay up to date with the latest news and competitions via the IQFA Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ IrishQualityFoodAwards and on Twitter @IrishQFAs
