We won!!
Ok, it's not often that we get to bang our own drum, but we admit right now to feeling compelled to. About two months back we received a phone call from FMCG magazine, asking "if we wouldn't mind that our product go to Paris to be judged at SIAL d'Or". (They had discovered our "Sweet Sensations" baby meal, which has a tray of Blueberry, Banana & Greek Yogurt dessert, and Apple Coconut & Date Pudding and wanted to enter it in the Frozen Desserts category.)
Even after finding out that we couldn't get packed up in the same suitcase as our product, we most happily agreed - then put it to the back of our mind as we awaited the results. In May, we recieved another call from the magazine and you might imagine our suprise to hear that we'd placed third in our category, (a bronze, just behind "Molten Pots of Chocolate" from Canada), and that we'd won the gold medal for New Zealand!
So knock us over with a feather, but we are so proud of what this says about our food. Not only is it a dessert that is free of added sugar, salt or other additives, but it was designed for our babies who truly deserve the very best.
SIAL judges award points, which is how determinations are made. Even more recently we've gone on to discover that we in fact scored the FIFTH HIGHEST SCORE across all categories and all countries.
Not bad, n'est pas?
Our thanks go out to Peter Mitchell, editor of FMCG magazine who goes to Paris on behalf of the New Zealand food industry every two years and presents on the industry's behalf. And our thanks to all other SIAL d'Or judges who evaluated our efforts so highly.
About SIAL d'Or. The prestigious SIAL d'Or awards are selected bi-annually by an international panel of 25 food journalists recognising the best, innovative food products in the world across eight categories.
Even after finding out that we couldn't get packed up in the same suitcase as our product, we most happily agreed - then put it to the back of our mind as we awaited the results. In May, we recieved another call from the magazine and you might imagine our suprise to hear that we'd placed third in our category, (a bronze, just behind "Molten Pots of Chocolate" from Canada), and that we'd won the gold medal for New Zealand!
So knock us over with a feather, but we are so proud of what this says about our food. Not only is it a dessert that is free of added sugar, salt or other additives, but it was designed for our babies who truly deserve the very best.
SIAL judges award points, which is how determinations are made. Even more recently we've gone on to discover that we in fact scored the FIFTH HIGHEST SCORE across all categories and all countries.
Not bad, n'est pas?
Our thanks go out to Peter Mitchell, editor of FMCG magazine who goes to Paris on behalf of the New Zealand food industry every two years and presents on the industry's behalf. And our thanks to all other SIAL d'Or judges who evaluated our efforts so highly.
About SIAL d'Or. The prestigious SIAL d'Or awards are selected bi-annually by an international panel of 25 food journalists recognising the best, innovative food products in the world across eight categories.
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