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Analysis & FeaturesInsights from the Farm Shop & Deli Show 2025
There has never been a better time for independent retailers to demonstrate what sets them apart from the supermarkets
NewsFinalists announced for New Product & Packaging Awards 2025
Dozens of innovative goods in line for a gong at The Grocer’s anticipated event at Wembley Stadium
Analysis & FeaturesThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025 in 150+ sensational pictures and video
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Brothers Cider wins Drinks Brand of the Year
Some 30 years after arriving on the scene, Brothers Cider was given a new lease of life.
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Plenish wins Soft Drinks Brand of the Year
Plenish has become a dominant force in health and wellness over the past decade. Its cold-pressed juices, health shots, and plant-based m*lks tap rising consumer demand for minimally processed products free from artificial ingredients.
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Little Dish and The Felix Project win Consumer Initiative of the Year
Around one in four working Londoners struggles to afford to feed their families, with 400,000 children going hungry every day. Little Dish looked to tackle the issue through a different type of charitable initiative
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Iceland Food Club wins Social Impact Initiative of the Year
Millions of low-income families in the UK struggle to afford food – forcing them into the hands of high-cost payday lenders or even illegal loan sharks
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Tesco rail freight scheme wins Supply Chain Initiative of the Year
Tesco’s rail freight initiative has become synonymous with the supermarket. “You only see Tesco cars on the rails. I’ve never seen anyone else’s,” one judge noted
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Midcounties Co-op wins Sustainability Initiative of the Year - Corporate
Midcounties Co-operative’s member-led sustainability strategy achieved “to a whole new level” of environmental impact, our judges said
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Bord Bia, ICBF & Teagasc – AgNav wins Sustainability Initiative of the Year - Products & Services
Created by three of Ireland’s largest food and agriculture trade bodies – Bord Bia, Teagasc and ICBF – AgNav is an online platform that provides free, science-led sustainability support to farms
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Shelf-edge AI at Morrisons wins Technology Initiative of the Year
The first AI deployment of its kind at scale within the UK, Focal Systems installed more than 200,000 tiny, shelf-edge, AI-powered availability cameras into 498 Morrisons supermarkets in just eight months
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Beyond Belief Brewing Co wins Waste Not Want Not Award
Beer brewed with surplus food may be a tried-and-tested concept, but rarely is it executed with the scale and innovation of the Beyond Belief Brewing Co.
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Grind wins SME Brand of the Year
In 2011, Grind founder and CEO David Abrahamovitch turned his father’s mobile phone store in Shoreditch into a coffee shop
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Doritos wins Food Brand of the Year
Reformulating a £290m brand is a full of risk. But the risk has paid off for PepsiCo’s new, non-HFSS Doritos
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Ordo wins Health & Beauty Brand of the Year
Ordo’s sleek sonic toothbrushes have brought some much-needed style to oral care
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Persil wins Household Goods Brand of the Year
Persil’s Wonder Wash range debuted in April 2024 to tap “the growing trend of short-cycle washes”
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Aldi’s Specially Selected wins Own-Label Range of the Year
With over 1,000 new products launching under the Specially Selected brand in 2024, this was the year Aldi really made its mark on premium own label
Events & AwardsAldi wins Retailer Employer of the Year at The Grocer Gold Awards 2025
Winning this award for the third time in four years “Aldi seems to set the bar higher and higher every year with what they are doing for their colleagues,” said one judge
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Applied Nutrition cracks tough US sports market
In addition to a landmark IPO, Applied Nutrition made a splash in the tough US market in 2024
Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Amelia Christie-Miller wins Entrepreneur of the Year
A hungover encounter with a near-empty food cupboard, solved by a “revelatory spoonful” of butter beans, set Amelia Christie-Miller on the path to becoming the ‘Queen of Beans’