The winners of our Top New Talent awards 2017 have been chosen.
From a record number of entries, we’ve selected 32 rising stars of the food & drink industry, all of whom will be profiled in full in the 18 November edition of The Grocer.
And the Top New Talent class of 2017 are:
Jethro Holman, beer training & events manager at Fourpure Brewing Co
Charlotte Whittle, customer marketing manager at Mars Petcare
Emily Herrero, commercial manager at Winterbotham Darby
Catherine Fendt, marketing executive at Spar UK
Alex Wright & Jack Scott, co-founders at Dash Water
Kane O’Flaherty, head of creative at Piccolo Foods
Theadora Alexander, founder, Young Foodies
Adam Thompson, commercial director at Rebel Kitchen
Louisa Wild, national account manager at Broadland Wineries
Kirsty Henshaw, founder and MD of Kirsty’s and Kirsty’s Kids Kitchen
Darren Beale, founder, MuscleFood.com
Louise Pickup, general store manager, Asda Reddish
Hywel Evans, bitter, ale and craft beer buyer at Asda Stores
Julia Crorkin, foodservice and out-of-home sales manager at Mallow & Marsh
Zak Manhire, commercial manager at Costa Coffee
Victoria Cartmill, product development technologist at UMI Foods (Unimush Ireland)
Anna Krettmann, wine buyer at Lidl UK
Colin Buckingham, digital marketing manager at Nomad Foods Europe (Birds Eye)
Franek Smith, trader at Dunns (Long Sutton)
Marcus A Proudfoot, director at GW Proudfoot
Ben Vear, head of sales at Emily Crisps
Georgina Pattison, commercial director at Deliciously Ella
Jonathon Thorn, CEO at Pioneer Foods UK
Kate Clark, customer operations leader at Procter & Gamble
Adam Forrest, account manager at Pladis Global
Charlotte Reynolds, founder & director at Blooming Food
Sophie Le Saint, retail marketing executive at PizzaExpress
Lisa Thompson, HR assistant at Burton’s Biscuit Company
Sven Dejean, senior manager performance and governance at Coca-Cola European Partners
Andrew Sweeney, director at Oomf!
Nicholson Boyd, owner, Pickles of London
Matthew Ashton, head of marketing communications at Palmer & Harvey
This year’s awards are sponsored by:
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