Archive of all events and awards articles – Page 4
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Chocolate
Far from a novelty proposition, the Duo bar has proved a commercial hit since it launched in 2024
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Condiments
Our judges loved this ‘delightful, well-balanced product with a gentle chilli kick’ and the fact it could be applied to myriad use cases in the kitchen
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Confectionery
‘A really fun product that would stand out on the shelf and that I’m sure kids would love,’ summed up our judges
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Cooking sauces & meal kits
Our judges enjoyed Geeta’s Tikka Wrap Kit’s ‘authentic cues’, value for money and ‘bold, standout branding’
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Crisps & snacks
Taylors Snacks has paired classic pickled onion with the intense heat of Carolina Reaper chilli, in what they insist is a ‘never seen before’ flavour combination
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Dairy drinks
Our judges loved the naturalness of the product, with many citing the fresh peach pieces visible in the kefir
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Deli
This ‘brings so much excitement to the category and I’m so excited by the possibilities’, said one judge
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Flexible plastic pack of the year
‘These packs are a welcome step change in the industry, reducing pack size, saving plastic and saving shelf space for the consumer,’ said our judges
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Innovative pack of the year
This is a development that’s ‘worth celebrating’, said our judges, using genuinely innovative materials and a ‘great design’ that ticks all the boxes
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Label & pack design of the year – drink
Our judges felt Hobgoblin Ale’s high-quality imagery was bolder, brighter and more inclusive
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Label & pack design of the year – food
It looks like something you’d find in a deli, said our judges, with an authentic look and feel
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Label & pack design of the year – snacks
The illustrations were quite simply ‘amazing’, said our judges, with a level of quality befitting individual art prints and ‘perfect positioning’ for the target audience
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Paper pack of the year
The new packaging is made using paper and zero plastic alongside a bold, block-colour design that our judges felt ‘taps into authentic artisan cues’
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Eco-friendly pack of the year
The new look ‘neatly emphasises the bamboo [and] feels premium with its thick paper covering, clear typography and superb use of images’, said our judges
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Tesco’s Ken Murphy wins The Grocer Cup
When Ken Murphy joined Tesco in October 2020, he had it all to prove. He was an outsider from Walgreens Boots Alliance
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Little Dish and The Felix Project win Consumer Initiative of the Year
Around one in four working Londoners struggles to afford to feed their families, with 400,000 children going hungry every day. Little Dish looked to tackle the issue through a different type of charitable initiative
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Plenish wins Soft Drinks Brand of the Year
Plenish has become a dominant force in health and wellness over the past decade. Its cold-pressed juices, health shots, and plant-based m*lks tap rising consumer demand for minimally processed products free from artificial ingredients.
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Tesco rail freight scheme wins Supply Chain Initiative of the Year
Tesco’s rail freight initiative has become synonymous with the supermarket. “You only see Tesco cars on the rails. I’ve never seen anyone else’s,” one judge noted
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Midcounties Co-op wins Sustainability Initiative of the Year - Corporate
Midcounties Co-operative’s member-led sustainability strategy achieved “to a whole new level” of environmental impact, our judges said
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Shelf-edge AI at Morrisons wins Technology Initiative of the Year
The first AI deployment of its kind at scale within the UK, Focal Systems installed more than 200,000 tiny, shelf-edge, AI-powered availability cameras into 498 Morrisons supermarkets in just eight months