Quality Food Award 2014
Prestige Foods wins again the Quality Food Award 2014 for Desserts & Puddings with their SuperValu Signature Tastes Panna Cotta!
Great Taste Awards 2014
Winner in 2 categories:
Puddings & Desserts: Dunnes Stores Simply Better Handmade Raspberry Sherry Trifle
Savoury pies: Supervalu Smoked Salmon Pie
Benchmark for speciality food
Great Taste, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, is the acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink. It has been described as the ‘Oscars’ of the food world and the ‘epicurean equivalent of the Booker prize’. Quite simply the Great Taste logo is the sign you can trust when buying food and drink in your local, quality retailer.
How does it all work?
Over 400 judges including 40 specially trained coordinating food writers inputting judges’ comments at just under 50 judging days from April through to mid-July including a week in Belfast, specialist test centres for tea, filter coffee and espresso and with the remainder done at Guild HQ in Dorset.
Supporting Irish jobs
Prestige Foods is serious about supporting the Irish economy and creating local employment. At present Prestige Foods employs 65 members of staff but this increases in the festive season to 115. We also support and encourage local supplier relationships as much as we can. Successfully maintaining, supporting and growing these relationships is the key to growing our economy and also our future success.
Prestige Foods’ new brand for Foodservice market
Prestige Foods has created a new brand “Prestige Professional” for products that are specifically developed for the foodservice market.
Ministers visit Prestige Foods
Minister Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation visits Prestige Foods in Listowel together with jimmy Deenihan and Seán Kelly.
