The judging panel considered almost 160 entries from 30 countries in 17 categories.
“Innovation continues to be the key driver in the dairy industry,” said FoodBev Media’s Bill Bruce, “and that was evident in the wide range of new products and packaging ideas, use of new ingredients, great new marketing campaigns, brand extensions and a huge variety of nutrition and environmental projects that interact with consumers and the wider community.
“All this activity helps to make the dairy sector the most exciting food and beverage category. Every year, the World Dairy Innovation Awards helps us shine a spotlight on the sector, drawing attention to positive trends. This year was no exception and in fact we can see there’s a rise in new dairy entrepreneurs and a return to more consistent investment in innovation from the more established players.”
All entries feature in a special Awards Showcase magazine, which will be distributed with issue 56 of Dairy Innovation magazine and available as a digital edition.
A full list of finalists and winners in each category follows below…
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Finalists in this category were PepsiCo (Russia) with Chudo Collection, Emmi (Switzerland) for Jogurtpur, and Muller (UK) with Deluxe Corners.
Finalists in this category were Nanyang Polytechnic (Singapore) for Traffic Jam Ice Cream, Meiji (Japan) for Meiji The Premium GRAN Matcha Flavor, and Arla Foods (Denmark) for Cheasy Frozen Skyr.
Finalists in this category were Domino’s Pizza Enterprises (Australia) with Salted Caramel Chocolate Mousse, and Lactalis Nestlé (Switzerland) with After Eight Creme Dessert.
Finalists in this category were Saputo (Canada) for Milk 2 Go Sport, Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy (China) with The Natural Grain, and First Milk (Team Sky) (UK) for Team Sky CNP Protein Smoothies.
The finalist in this category was Nanyang Polytechnic (Singapore) with Cuppa Cookies.
Finalists in this category were IDB Deutschland (Germany) for KerryGold Flavoured Butters, and Norseland (UK) for Mexicana Spreadable.
Finalists in this category were Meiji (Japan) with Tokachi Parmesan Cheese, Arla Foods Ingredients (Denmark) for Nutrilac FastRipe, and Organic Milk Suppliers Cooperative (UK) with Kingdom Organic Sharp Aged Cheddar.
Finalists in this category were Skinside (Switzerland) with Skinside Cosmetic Drink, and Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy (China) for Xin Yang Dao Zero lactose milk.
Finalists in this category were Arla (Denmark) for Karoline’s Kitchen, Phin and Phebes (US) with Dark Chocolate Salty Caramel and Peanutty Pretzel, Gujurat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (India) for the launch of Amul Kool PET Bottle, Mornflake (UK) for Superfast Instant Breakfast Pots, and Stonyfield and Wiki Foods (US) for Wiki Pearls.
Finalists in this category were S&D Beverage Innovations (US) for Milk Splash, Minskoblproduct (Russia) with Vysoko-Vysoko (Sky-High), and The Good Whey Company (UK) for Upbeat.
Finalists in this category were Bioiberica (Spain) for Mobilee, and Davisco Foods (US) for Alpha-lactalbumin.
Finalists in this category were Little Big Brands (US) for The Epic Seed, Minskoblproduct (Russia) for Vysoko-Vysoko (Sky-High), and Slice Design (UK) for Activia Pouring Yogurt.
Finalists in this category were Arla/Aplix (UK) with Easy-Lock by Arla/Aplix, PET Engineering (Italy) for the lightest ever 1-litre monolayer PET bottle, Fonterra (New Zealand) for Anchor’s Lightproof Milk Bottle Range, and Sidel (Switzerland) for low-output aseptic Combi Predis/Capdis FMa.
Finalists were Stonyfield and WikiFoods (US) with Frozen Yogurt Pearls, and Orchard Valley (UK) for Single Shot Cultures.
Finalist was Fair Cape Dairies (South Africa) with its Fair Cape 3 pillar strategy.
The finalist in this category was Arbiogaz Environment Technologies Building (Turkey) for Sutas Group Integrated Waste Management and Energy Production Initiative.
Finalists in this category were Quench (US) for its Turkey Hill Dairy blog ‘The Ice Cream Journal’, Saputo (Canada) for Milk 2 Go Sport – Dufour-Lapointe Sisters, Muller Dairy (UK) for the Muller Rice Tasty B Campaign, and Cayenne (Austria) for the AMA annual campaign.
The judging panel gave a special ‘Best overall concept’ award to Stonyfield and WikiFoods (US) for its Frozen Yogurt Pearls.
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