Recognising the company’s growth from selling “one chicken product eleven years ago to becoming a significant operator serving over 18,000 schools and over one million school meals each week with British Poultry products,” judges also commended UK Foodhall for serving over half a million schools with British turkey every Christmas.
It will now be able to carry the British Poultry Awards logo across its entire range of products for the next 12 months.
Other notable winners include Green Gourmet, who took home Best Foodservice Poultry Product for its Red Tractor raw chicken breast fillet portion – noted for being a “great innovation, sufficiently versatile for schools to manage cost and minimise wastage while delivering on taste and nutrition.”
Judges, which included Cost Sector Catering’s very own Sheila Eggleston (food and drink editor), chef consultant Lee Maycock and Phil Clarke from Farmers Weekly, said they were impressed with the number of foodservice operators ‘helping to promote all varieties of British poultry to their customers.’
Chief executive of the British Poultry Council, Richard Griffiths, said: “Our awards are the biggest event in the poultry industry calendar, providing an important platform to recognise small and large players for their continued contribution to make the industry the success it is.
“It’s a great opportunity to applaud the innovators and we’re pleased to say that this year we attracted a huge number of high spec products from across the industry. A huge thanks to all those who entered and congratulations to all winners.”
There was one extra award made on the night when Sheila Eggleston was presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award to mark her support for the event as a judge over a number of years.
The full list of winners is as below:
- Poultry Foodservice Operator of the Year - The UK Foodhall Ltd
- Best Poultry Foodservice Product - Green Gourmet Ltd Red Tractor Raw Chicken Breast Fillet Portion 57g
- Student Chefs of the Year - Bayan Zuraiki and Kieran Pigott, both University of West London
- Best Poultry Recipe in Association with Red Tractor - Mandy Miller, Chinese Chicken Wings
- Best Chicken Product all year round (AYR): Asda Chicken Wings of the World
- Highly Commended: Morrisons Market Street Chicken Breast with Mango Dhal
- Best Chicken Product seasonal - Aldi Harissa Chicken Escalopes
- Best New Poultry Launch - Gressingham Bistro Duck Legs with Orange and Maple Glaze
- Best Duck Product AYR - The Cornish Duck Co Cherry Smoked Terras Duck Breast
- Best Duck Product seasonal (joint winners): Morrisons Whole Duck (Christmas) and Aldi Easy Carve Duck with Pork and Clementine Stuffing with Zest Maple and Clementine Glaze
- Best Turkey Product – Asda Butchers Selection Turkey and Caramelised Onion Sausages
- Best Turkey Product seasonal - Asda Extra Special Free Range & Corn-Fed British Bronze Turkey
- Poultry Retailer of the Year - Asda
- Poultry Supply Chain, Innovation - PrognostiX
- Poultry Supply Chain, Standout Performance - Keyo
- Poultry Supply Chain, Champion - John Cooper, Alltech