Winners of The Food and Drink iNet Innovation Awards announced

29th November 2010, 9:22am

Fairfield Plaice in Buxton has been crowned The Food and Drink Forum Innovation Champion 2010 in The Food and Drink iNet Innovation Awards.

The Derbyshire fish and chip shop introduced a range of environmentally friendly initiatives including installing a more efficient frying range using recyclable packaging and buying fish from sustainable sources and chips from a firm that uses recycled waste water.

The venture, run by Carl Heery, also took the Nottingham Trent University Award for Most Innovative Business in the Wider Food Sector jointly with Cookies of Oakham, Rutland.

The judges said: "When choosing the overall winner we were looking for the entry that stands out as having the wow factor. After much deliberation and discussion the Innovation Champion has been awarded to Fairfield Plaice for the way in which it has taken a traditional industry and turned it on its head to become one of the first environmentally friendly fish and chip shops in the UK."

Other winners included British Sugar, Newark, which scooped the Food Processing Faraday Award for Most Innovative Large Food and Drink Manufacturer and Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell, Derbyshire won the University of Lincoln Award for Most Innovative Small to Medium Sized Food and Drink Manufacturer.

Food and Drink iNet director Andrew Butterwick said: "I'd like to congratulate all the very worthy winners in the Food and Drink iNet Innovation Awards 2010, who illustrate the diverse and exciting range of innovation opportunities that are being developed in the East Midlands."

Funded by East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Food and Drink iNet co-ordinates innovation support for businesses, universities and individuals working in the food and drink sector in the East Midlands.

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