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THIS YEAR'S SPONSORS
we always have such AMAZING SUPPORT fOr the fresh awards and this year will be no EXCEPTION.
Below is a list of our valued sponsors for the FPC Fresh Awards 2024. You can read about their individual business sectors and visit their websites for a deep dive of discovery.
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FOODSERVICE SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR
New Covent Garden Market is the oldest and largest Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Wholesale Market in the UK. Located in Nine Elms, on the banks of the River Thames, it is ideally located to serve customers across London and throughout the South East of England with a year-round offer of premium, seasonal and world-class fresh produce. With over 170 businesses trading from the site, New Covent Garden Market is home to some of the most experienced and expert people to be found anywhere in this great industry. The 48-acre site is currently being redeveloped to create a Market fit for the future, ensuring that New Covent Garden Market remains at the forefront of fresh horticultural produce supply for decades to come.
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BEST PLACE to work
In this increasingly competitive sector you need legal advisors who understand the issues you face – whether driven by regulation or commercial pressures. Because we have worked with many food businesses across the UK, advising on a wide range of issues, you can be confident that we will deliver effective and holistic solutions to the challenges you face.
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THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Recognised as the avocado experts, Westfalia UK is a multinational organisation with the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world. Suppliers to retail, foodservice and wholesale sectors through our specialist means, we supply the finest avocado to various shops, store, and wholesale suppliers. Our quality is of the highest, and our customer service to all sections is second to none.
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rising star of the year
IPP is not only a leading pallet pool provider, but also a vital part of demanding and fast-moving FMCG supply chain. Operating a circular re-use system for high quality pallets and boxes across the UK and Europe, IPP seamlessly manages a sustainable and customer-focused approach. Driven by its core values ‘care, dare, deliver’. Producers and retailers that work with IPP are collaborating with a responsible and efficiency focused business that achieves optimal supply chain results together with customers and suppliers.
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Sustainability excellence
The Smurfit Kappa Group plc is Europe's leading corrugated packaging company and one of the leading paper-based packaging companies in the world.
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Multiple Floral RETAILER OF THE YEAR
World Horti Center is the knowledge and innovation center of the international greenhouse horticulture sector. A leading platform where business, education, research and government innovate, connect, inspire and share knowledge together.
We connect parties that want to play a meaningful role in the sustainable food supply and greening the world. Leading companies and innovations from greenhouse horticulture are represented at our year-round trade fair.
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MULTIPLE FRUIT & VEGETABLE RETAILER OF THE YEAR
IFCO is the leading global provider of reusable packaging solutions for fresh foods, serving customers in 50+ countries. IFCO operates a pool of over 370 million Reusable Packaging Containers (RPCs) globally, which are used for 2 billion shipments of fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, bread, and other items from suppliers to grocery retailers every year. IFCO RPCs ensure a better fresh food supply chain by lowering food waste and damage by 96%, reducing CO2 emissions by 60%, and consuming 80% less water compared to single-use packaging. IFCO is committed to becoming a global leader in sustainability, making a positive impact on the planet and society.
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BUSINESS SERVICE PARTNER
Total Produce has joined forces with Dole Food Company to create Dole Plc.
With roots traceable back to the 1850’s, Total Produce is today part of Dole plc - the world’s leading premier fresh produce provider. Committed to best agronomic and sustainable practices from farm to fork, we operate across Europe and beyond, serving the retail, wholesale, foodservice and ecommerce sectors and offering our customers and consumers alike a complete portfolio of fresh fruits and vegetables: the cream of the global crop and the very best of local.
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SUPERMARKET fruit & veg supplier of the yeaR
PML is a family-owned business that has been established as a company for 17 years. As dedicated logistic specialists, we effectively manage the supply chain of temperature sensitive goods. Working across both import and export, our logistics experts will transport your cargo door-to-door, with maximum efficiency, on time and on budget by air, by sea or by road.
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ONLINE RETAILER OF THE YEAR FRUIT, VEGETABLES AND FLORAL
Waddington®Europe, a Novolex® brand, is a premier European food packaging specialist for a variety of sectors, including produce, bakery, dairy, food-to-go, desserts,protein, pet food and a lot more. Our high quality, innovative product portfolio has been designed with optimum clarity, maximum shelf presence, ease of use and circularity in mind. We are a vertically integrated company and provide a complete end-to-end packaging supply service, including design, extrusion, tooling manufacture and thermoforming. We help our customers meet their sustainability commitments by offering products such as MONOAIR™, our fully recyclable mono material soft fruit punnet that is also made from recycled plastic (rPET) with built-in cushion technology that doesn’t need additional bubble padding to prevent fruit bruising. That gives consumers peace of mind knowing that not only is there less plastic in the punnet, but that the whole container can be recycled back into food grade packaging rPET.
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UK GROWER OF THE YEAR
Red Tractor is a not-for-profit company that is the UK’s biggest farm and food assurance scheme. We develop standards based on science, evidence, best practice and legislation that cover animal welfare, food safety, traceability and environmental protection. Around 50,000 British farmers are accredited to Red Tractor standards, which form the basis of buying and sourcing specifications for major supermarkets, household brands and restaurant chains, ultimately making life simpler for everyone.
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WHOLESALE FRUIT & VEG
SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR
New Spitalfields Market is Britain’s premier wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market. The market is a purpose-built site, in Leyton, East London, which opened in 1991. It is the largest revenue-earning fresh produce and flower market in the UK.The market’s location provides direct and easy access to the motorway network, and all nearby ports and airports, enabling more than 100 companies to offer a range of healthy and nutritious fresh produce and flowers to their customers, sourced year-round from every corner of the world.These highly specialised firms predominantly serve customers across London and the Home Counties and our site is ideally placed to serve the rest of the UK and continental Europe too.There is no more diverse market in the country and that fact contributes hugely to the market’s ability to stay at the forefront of its trade and service the rapidly changing needs of the 21st century wholesale market customer base
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FRESH PRODUCE BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivalled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Our industry-specific solutions, designed to maximise business value and process efficiency, are at the heart of our customers’ operations.In order to build and retain the trust and confidence our customers place in us, we must adhere to the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, discretion and confidentiality. Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations are essential to creating value for our customers, partners and employees and must be part of our sustainable, long-term strategy. We are committed to ESG management and best practices.
BECOME A SPONSOR
The Fresh Awards are the perfect opportunity for you to raise your business profile.
A glittering night of celebration awaits, with dinner and presentation ceremony attended not just by shortlisted businesses, but also some of the leading industry figures. The FPC Fresh Awards 2024 provides unprecedented networking opportunity, allowing you to showcase your organisation to a large fresh produce industry audience.
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