Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards

Best Bakery Product

Sponsored by: Cranswick

Cranswick is part of Great British farming heritage, renowned for delivering traditional products of the highest quality.

Authenticity, craftsmanship and great taste are the values are at the core of our business.

Cranswick began in 1975, when a group of East Yorkshire farmers joined together to mill pig feed, ensuring a focus on high quality and efficient production.

Our beginnings were humble but our ambitions were not. In the 1980s, Cranswick moved into food production, giving us one of the first ‘farm to fork’ offerings.

Today, Cranswick is one of the largest food producers in Britain, but we’ve stayed true to our simple ethos – to create authentically made British food, without compromise. Using the skills of artisans and the dedication of generations of craftsmanship, we make great, tasty food.

Find out more at: www.cranswick.plc.uk

Best Beer

Sponsored by: Parkers Branded Product Solutions

Parkers Branded is a family business based in Otley – it was started by Albert Parker in 1985 and is now owned by our employees in an EOT.

Regular customers know just how hard we work to find them the right product at the right price.

Our ethos, burned into our DNA by Albert, is that better business is built on outstanding relationships with suppliers and customers. For over 35 years we have been finding quality products, negotiating to get the best price and making sure they reach you on time, every time.

Our approach is to work closely with you to be sure that you get the product that you want. We focus on providing quality service from the first moment you contact us. We will give you prompt, polite and informed advice to ensure that we provide you with quality products within your budget and within your timescales.

Find out more at: www.parkersbranded.co.uk.

Best Beverage

Sponsored by: Verner Wheelock

Established in 1990, Verner Wheelock is a leading provider of specialist training to the food and drink industry. The company provides training at all levels in HACCP, Food Safety & Hygiene and Auditing as well as variety of specialist and refresher courses.

Verner Wheelock’s trainers all have several years’ food industry experience, allowing them to provide relevant examples to assist learning. Delegates consistently achieve high examination pass rates.

Find out more at: www.vwa.co.uk

Best Cheese / Dairy

Sponsored by: North PR

North PR is proud to sponsor the Best Cheese / Dairy product award.

North PR is a Leeds-based specialist food & drink PR agency that helps food and drink brands tell their stories and build brand fame. We are a bespoke team of senior food, retail and lifestyle comms experts who are passionate about the thriving Yorkshire food and drink sector. We work with a range of exciting and innovative brands from disruptive start-ups to household names.

We’re proud to have partnered with lots of amazing Yorkshire food and drink brands including Shepherds Purse cheese, Nine Tines potato vodka, Virtual Cheese Awards, Nidhoggr Mead Co, Yorkshire Dales Food & Drink Festival, Homage2Fromage, DeliVita, Choc Affair, Farmison & Co, The Biskery, Sloemotion Distillery, The ToFoo Co, Yorkshire Handmade Pies, Brown & Blond and Rethink Food.

Find out more at www.northpr.co.uk

Best Confectionery

AVAILABLE TO SPONSOR!

Sponsor this category for only £1250 + VAT, and get all of these great promotional benefits:

• 2 tickets to the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 4th November at The Pavilions, Great Yorkshire Events Centre, Harrogate
• Sponsors profile on this very page of the Deliciously Yorkshire website
• “In association with” on all Deliciously Yorkshire and press coverage of your award category in the Yorkshire Post and other regional titles
• Opportunities for networking at the awards event and the chance to present your award to the winner of your category
• Opportunity to have a photograph taken with your category winner
• Brand delivered at awards ceremony. Chance to display pop up banners and literature in the sponsors “hall of fame”
• Brand delivered on relevant trophies and certificates
• Brand on all printed award event related materials (menu etc)
• Mentions in all awards coverage including the Deliciously Yorkshire page in The Yorkshire Post’s Country Week

Best Fish & Seafood

AVAILABLE TO SPONSOR!

Sponsor this category for only £1250 + VAT, and get all of these great promotional benefits:

• 2 tickets to the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 4th November at The Pavilions, Great Yorkshire Events Centre, Harrogate
• Sponsors profile on this very page of the Deliciously Yorkshire website
• “In association with” on all Deliciously Yorkshire and press coverage of your award category in the Yorkshire Post and other regional titles
• Opportunities for networking at the awards event and the chance to present your award to the winner of your category
• Opportunity to have a photograph taken with your category winner
• Brand delivered at awards ceremony. Chance to display pop up banners and literature in the sponsors “hall of fame”
• Brand delivered on relevant trophies and certificates
• Brand on all printed award event related materials (menu etc)
• Mentions in all awards coverage including the Deliciously Yorkshire page in The Yorkshire Post’s Country Week

Best ‘Free From’ Product

Sponsored by: Holler Marketing

Holler is a marketing and creative agency based in Beverley, who are proud to work with a wide range of amazing food and drink businesses across Yorkshire. We have been Patron Members of Deliciously Yorkshire for the last 5 years, helping Allison and the team with the DY website, graphic design, social media, and email marketing.

Find out more at: www.hollermarketing.co.uk

Best Fresh Meat

Sponsored by: Yorkshire Agricultural Society

The Yorkshire Agricultural Society is proud to sponsor the Fresh Meat category at this year’s Taste Awards. Promoting and supporting farming, food and the countryside is at the heart of all we do here at the Society. This includes championing the role of farmers as providers of high-quality produce and encouraging consumers to choose healthy and local produce.

Find out more at: www.yas.co.uk

Best Ice Cream

Sponsored by: Reed Boardall

Reed Boardall is one of the leading temperature controlled food distribution businesses in the UK, storing and delivering frozen food from large and small manufacturers across Britain Europe and further afield to all the UK’s best-known supermarkets and food service outlets.

Operating 24/7, we provide a total, integrated service with our 200-strong fleet of state-of-the-art vehicles moving an average of 12,000 pallets a day, and storing around £100m worth of products on behalf of our customers.

Based at a single 55 acre site in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, we are committed to providing an industry-leading, highly reliable ‘order today, deliver tomorrow’ service – meaning that our customers, whatever their size, can be confident that their products will be where they need them, when they need them.

Having perfected the art of meeting orders by combining different products from various suppliers, Reed Boardall is able to provide efficient and cost-effective next day delivery even for smaller orders.

With a 30 year heritage serving this niche sector, we are still a British, family-owned business, committed to forging long term relationships with our customers. We have consistently proved ourselves to be a reliable, responsive and cost effective cold storage and distribution partner to the best known names in the UK food industry.

Find out more at: www.reedboardall.com

Best Pantry Product

AVAILABLE TO SPONSOR!

Sponsor this category for only £1250 + VAT, and get all of these great promotional benefits:

• 2 tickets to the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 4th November at The Pavilions, Great Yorkshire Events Centre, Harrogate
• Sponsors profile on this very page of the Deliciously Yorkshire website
• “In association with” on all Deliciously Yorkshire and press coverage of your award category in the Yorkshire Post and other regional titles
• Opportunities for networking at the awards event and the chance to present your award to the winner of your category
• Opportunity to have a photograph taken with your category winner
• Brand delivered at awards ceremony. Chance to display pop up banners and literature in the sponsors “hall of fame”
• Brand delivered on relevant trophies and certificates
• Brand on all printed award event related materials (menu etc)
• Mentions in all awards coverage including the Deliciously Yorkshire page in The Yorkshire Post’s Country Week

Best Pork Pie

Sponsored by: The Premium British Sausage Company

The British Premium Sausage Company is a Multi Award winning Company based in the heart of Yorkshire producing Traditional British Sausages, Burgers, Meatballs and High Welfare Chorizo and Salamis. With over 40 years combined experience within the meat industry, our hands on Directors have built up a reputation for producing top quality and innovative products for the UK and Export markets.

Find out more at: www.britishpremiumsausages.co.uk

Best Prepared Meat

AVAILABLE TO SPONSOR!

Sponsor this category for only £1250 + VAT, and get all of these great promotional benefits:

• 2 tickets to the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 4th November at The Pavilions, Great Yorkshire Events Centre, Harrogate
• Sponsors profile on this very page of the Deliciously Yorkshire website
• “In association with” on all Deliciously Yorkshire and press coverage of your award category in the Yorkshire Post and other regional titles
• Opportunities for networking at the awards event and the chance to present your award to the winner of your category
• Opportunity to have a photograph taken with your category winner
• Brand delivered at awards ceremony. Chance to display pop up banners and literature in the sponsors “hall of fame”
• Brand delivered on relevant trophies and certificates
• Brand on all printed award event related materials (menu etc)
• Mentions in all awards coverage including the Deliciously Yorkshire page in The Yorkshire Post’s Country Week

Best Ready To Eat

Sponsored by: Subrosa

Subrosa help food and drink brands achieve their potential. We’re a friendly team of 18 industry professionals based in North Yorkshire whose collective experience encompasses senior buying positions in ASDA, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons, as well as Brand Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Senior Account Management and Supply Chain Management positions at retailers and manufacturers. Working collaboratively across Marketing, Commercial and Supply Chain we use our expertise and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of food & drink consumers, retailers, and manufacturers to develop strategies and relationships which help our clients grow profitably.

To find out more about our work and how we can help your business achieve its potential please visit www.subrosa-uk.com.

Best Savoury Condiment

AVAILABLE TO SPONSOR!

Sponsor this category for only £1250 + VAT, and get all of these great promotional benefits:

• 2 tickets to the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 4th November at The Pavilions, Great Yorkshire Events Centre, Harrogate
• Sponsors profile on this very page of the Deliciously Yorkshire website
• “In association with” on all Deliciously Yorkshire and press coverage of your award category in the Yorkshire Post and other regional titles
• Opportunities for networking at the awards event and the chance to present your award to the winner of your category
• Opportunity to have a photograph taken with your category winner
• Brand delivered at awards ceremony. Chance to display pop up banners and literature in the sponsors “hall of fame”
• Brand delivered on relevant trophies and certificates
• Brand on all printed award event related materials (menu etc)
• Mentions in all awards coverage including the Deliciously Yorkshire page in The Yorkshire Post’s Country Week

Best Sustainable Product

Sponsored by: FixOurFood

FixOurFood is an ambitious research programme inspiring action across Yorkshire to co-create a regenerative food system. Led out of the School for Business and Society at the University of York the programme is underpinned by a robust evidence base; pioneering, envisioning, and stimulating respectful debate to drive transformation to ensure healthy people and a healthy planet.

To achieve this we are focussing on schools, hybrid business models and regenerative farming, alongside a comprehensive team of stakeholders and academic partner institutions to harness their expertise and innovative minds. The team is also developing new measures to help stakeholders understand the impact of decisions taken within the food system and identifying which policies and governance structures are needed to support transformative change.

Belinda Morris, Operations Director of the FixOurFood programme said: “Both the School for Business and Society and FixOurFood are delighted to be sponsoring the Taste Awards for a second year. The Awards a wonderful celebration of the amazing businesses and food across Yorkshire.”

The School for Business and Society at the University of York is uniquely placed to lead business and public policy action to tackle complex social and environmental issues and deliver sustainable inclusive growth. It is amplifying strengths in responsible business management, social and public policy, social work and public management, to create an environment that will help develop the ethical leaders of tomorrow.

Find out more at: www.fixourfood.org

Best Sweet Spread / Preserve

Sponsored by: IND!E

IND!E believes in creating opportunities for SME challenger brands to grow and thrive whilst supporting retailers with new and trend-led products that keep them relevant, vibrant and connected to their audiences.

Our Vision

To become the global leader in creating opportunities for SME brands in retail, enabling passionate entrepreneurs to turn their dreams into thriving businesses.

We have distribution opportunities for food and drink brands with retailers such as Ocado, Waitrose and Selfridges.

Join the IND!E shop on Ocado

We’re curating a selection of standout, independent food and drink brands to sit on our IND!E Shop on Ocado. This is an incredible opportunity to get into retail and get in front of Ocado’s vast and engaged customer base, giving your brand a presence on one of the UK’s leading online grocery platforms. The IND!E shop is the destination for Ocado shoppers to shop new, independent and exciting brands.

Email info@collectionindie.com for details.

Find out more at: www.popupindie.com

Best Wine or Spirit

Sponsored by: Brown & Brown

Brown & Brown (formerly Marshall Wooldridge) has grown into one of the top 50 independent brokers in the country. We have built an enviable reputation of technical competence across all classes of insurance including the food and drink sector.
We are proud to be supporting the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards as we know quality products when we see them. We also have a number of clients who are DY members and will always support the wherever we can.

Find out more at: www.bbrown.com

Best Independent Retailer

Sponsored by: Wilkin Chapman Rollits

Wilkin Chapman Rollits was formed through the recent merger of two of the most established law firms in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Now recognised as a significant regional player with national capabilities, the firm brings together extensive expertise in advising food and drink businesses, with over 500 partners and staff across six locations in the region.

Offering comprehensive commercial legal services to prominent companies and individuals across the Yorkshire region from its locations in Hull, York and Beverley, the firm is a long-standing supporter of Deliciously Yorkshire, and proudly sponsors the annual Taste Awards, reinforcing its commitment to the region’s thriving food and drink sector.

Find out more at: www.wilkinchapmanrollits.co.uk

Best New Business

Sponsored by: York & North Yorkshire Combined Authority

Find out more at: York & North Yorkshire Combined Authority

Best Use of Local Produce on a Menu

Sponsored by: Cryer & Stott Cheesemongers

Cryer & Stott are an award-winning independent cheesemongers & fine food merchants based in West Yorkshire. Distributing to the UK’s leading hotels, restaurants, gastropubs, farm shops, delicatessens & sporting stadiums to name but a few.

We pride ourselves on having close ties with artisan cheesemakers & producers across the UK. We source & wholesale the finest quality products perfect for our client’s needs.

Find out more at: www.cryerandstott.co.uk

Best Wholesaler / Distributor

Sponsored by: Acorn Dairy

As a past winner, Acorn Dairy are delighted to sponsor the Best Wholesaler category in the 21st year of the food group.

Providing a sustainable, delicious milk for our region’s caterers & retailers to be proud to serve to the public, has been our aim at Acorn Dairy since 1998. Deliciously Yorkshire, and many of her members have been beside us, serving our organic milk, for most of those years. The strength of this community of food producers, suppliers and caterers is greater than the sum of its parts.

Find out more at: www.acorndairy.co.uk

Rising Star

Sponsored by: Rudding Park

As an award-winning family owned hotel, spa and golf resort in Harrogate, hospitality and connecting with people over great food and drink is in our DNA. For this reason we are very excited to be sponsoring the Rising Star award.

People are the key ingredient of our success and we invest in those who have invested in us; people who walk through our doors every day, ready to embrace new challenges and meet new demands – ready for their personalities to shine.

We focus on individuals and their potential. We upskill and develop people so leaders can step up and others can step forward.
Investing in our team for the long term increases productivity and boosts morale. Whilst we train and develop people so they can leave, we treat them well so they don’t want to!

For those looking to take their first step, or looking to progress your career in hospitality – Rudding Park is the natural choice and we’ll support your personal development every step of the way.

We offer structured 12 month programmes for a variety of levels from Apprenticeships, Chef Development Programme, Management Trainee Programme and our Bar Academy.

It’s a privilege for us be given the opportunity to play a part in someone’s life journey and believe it’s right for us to reciprocate, investing in and nurturing Rising Stars

Find out more at: www.ruddingpark.co.uk

The Judy Bell Yorkshire Food Hero

Sponsored by: Shepherds Purse Cheeses

Award-winning artisan cheese makers based in North Yorkshire, Shepherds Purse Cheeses make a range of blue, mould ripened and fresh cheeses from ewe’s milk, buffalo milk and cow’s milk. Founded in 1989 by Judy Bell MBE the business is now run by her two daughters, Katie and Caroline. Their cheeses are available nationwide and online.

Long standing and loyal supporters of the Deliciously Yorkshire community Shepherds Purse are proud to be sponsors of the Yorkshire Food Hero category named in honour of Judy.

Find out more at: www.shepherdspurse.co.uk