Have you started your business and experienced a significant growth in the past few years?
Are you proud to be a thriving UK food or drink SME?
This category is for dynamic SME’s who have demonstrated outstanding growth over the past 18 months. Growth can be through increased sales, capacity and resource expansion, developing new and innovative product lines or even impressive first-year achievements after starting from scratch. Our judges will also be looking at the sustainability and ambition of growth.
In short, if you think your business is fabulous, enter and tell us why!
Please note this category is open to SME’s. To qualify your company turnover must be less than £50m.
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Previous winners
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SME Emerging Business 2024
NEMI Teas offer a variety of loose teas, biodegradable tea pyramids and chai syrups for lattes. They have developed their brand name across the UK as a premium tea brand with an ethical mindset.
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SME Emerging Business 2023
Launched in 2019, Hertfordshire’s SRSLY Low Carb’s vision is to become the No.1 consumer brand for tasty, low carb themed foods in ‘everyday affordable’ product categories.
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Emerging Business 2022 - Sessions Market Limited
Redefining what it means to grow a restaurant brand, Sessions uses its physical sites and its tech to foster new concepts into well-designed, authentic brands from real food founders.