SA’s best food and beverage awarded

The 2022 South Australian Premier’s Meals and Beverage Trade Awards have been held on Friday night time on the Adelaide Conference Centre attended by meals and beverage enterprise homeowners, trade leaders and the Hon Peter Malinauskas MP, Premier of South Australia.

Meals South Australia CEO Catherine Sayer stated the eagerness, innovation and unity of the state’s meals and beverage trade have been in full show on the gala occasion.

Sayer stated that the coveted enterprise and shopper awards have been as soon as once more hotly contested on the annual trade awards, with household companies featured in each classes.

Eyrewoolf Abalone, from Flinders Island, took house the Enterprise Excellence Award for firms with as much as 15 FTE whereas La Casa Del Formaggio gained the Enterprise Excellence Award for greater than 15. Eyrewoolf additionally gained the first producer award for a small enterprise with Ceravolo Orchards choosing up the over 15 FTE trophy.

The coveted Shopper Award noticed greater than 10,000 public votes solid from throughout the globe handy Mike’s Beef Jerky the small enterprise award and Haigh’s Candies the big enterprise gong.

Sayer stated these awards showcase the state’s finest merchandise, whereas formally recognising how the meals and beverage trade leads South Australia’s enterprise sector via innovation and progress.

“All our winners, finalists and entrants are worthy of accolades, however we’re this yr notably delighted to recognise Mitani Group, our Corridor of Fame Inductee, for its important and sustainable contribution to the meals and beverage trade since first opening its doorways in 1979,” Sayer stated.

Mitani is the model behind the model for a few of Australia’s main meals manufacturing firms and is most well-known for the SA staple: hen salt.

“We have been additionally happy to current the Psychological Well being and Wellbeing Award, a brand new class sponsored by Breakthrough Psychological Well being Analysis Basis, to Harvest the Fleurieu.

“Their dedication to enriching the working lives of their staff will little question be an inspiration to the broader trade.”

Premier Peter Malinauskas stated the meals and beverage trade in South Australia continued to be an important a part of the state’s rising economic system.

“The excessive stage of entrants, finalists and award winners showcased via this yr’s awards exhibits precisely why our meals and beverage trade continues to be an important a part of our state’s future,” he stated.

“Not solely is it an trade that confirmed unimaginable management via some troublesome challenges over the previous few years, however importantly, it continues to create new alternatives, services.”