Awards categories
With 20 award categories, whether your company has led a significant project that you are proud of, or a colleague has done a tremendous job in their role, find an award category that suits you.
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FDF Award Categories
Do you employ a brilliant apprentice in your food and drink manufacturing company? Have you got an exceptional young talent among your teams?
Have you launched an exciting new brand, whether a single product or a range? Or is your business strengthening an existing brand or rebranding an existing range?
This category is for in-house or agency teams to enter campaigns centring on sales, driving behaviour change, launches, research or increasing awareness.
Are you making a difference in your community? We are looking for companies that have carried out outstanding work with their chosen community and made a positive difference.
This award is aimed at recognising where companies are helping their customers achieve dietary goals by changing products or introducing new products.
Does your company work positively with schools and colleges to encourage interest in food and drink manufacturing or help facilitate employment opportunities for young people?
Does your company have a leading environmental initiative?
British food and drink has never been more popular and exports continue to be a key area for growth.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative
Is your company taking strides to create an equal, diverse and inclusive workplace?
Food & Drink Engineer of the Year
Engineering skills are essential for our industry to grow and we want to recognise the people that will make this happen.
Food & Drink Technologist/Scientist of the Year
Scientific developments help to give our industry its competitive edge and we are fortunate to have many talented scientists working within our sector.
Does your company have an initiative to prevent and reduce food waste in manufacturing or along the supply chain?
Employee recruitment and retention is important to a successful company, so show us how your company is a great place to work.
Manufacturing & Digital Transformation
Has your company developed a new manufacturing process or adopted technology that has led to significant business improvements?
This award is open to any business that is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and will award entities pushing the boundaries to reduce and/or eliminate emissions to the greatest extent possible.
Does your company carry out exceptional work, creating innovative new products?
Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist of the Year
Nutritionists and dietitians support our food and drink industry in improving the health of the nation, and are crucial to innovative new product development.
Open to entrants within their first five years in the industry at any academic and training level, the Rising Star category is for the people with the potential to go far.
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?
Sustainable Packaging Initiative
This category looks at how food and drink producers have moved towards more sustainable packaging solutions particularly in respect of plastics.
Enter the FDF Awards
Entries are now open for the FDF Awards 2025.
For your chance to win, enter for free before 9 May 2025 by downloading or filling in the online application.
You can enter as many categories as you like and nominate multiple projects/colleagues.
Before you enter
Read our FAQs and guidance on submitting your application sucessfully and take a look at last year's finalist case studies.