Awards Entries Open Now!
NutraIngredients Awards 2018: Entries open as gala awards evening returns to Vitafoods
Rewarding true innovation, market success and cutting edge research in healthy foods, supplements and nutrition the 2018 NutraIngredients Awards gala evening will host an industry-wide celebration of success.
Held on Wednesday May 16th in Geneva, after the second day of Vitafoods Europe, the dinner and awards ceremony has become a fixture of the Vitafoods calendar – and next year will be even bigger and better!
In it to win it!
Entries for the 12 prestigious awards are open now – with categories to celebrate ingredient and finished product success in addition to highly competitive categories for nutrition research, personalised nutrition, and start-ups.
The closing date for awards entries is Friday 2nd February 2018. Entering the awards is a great way to showcase your hard work and achievements and communicate this within your business and externally to the trade.
“Following the high quality and quantity of entries received, and strong competition, for the 2017 edition –and based on feedback from the industry, next year’s NutraIngredients Awards will see a few change to our categories and entry criteria,” said Graham Twyford, Executive Director for EMEA/APAC.
”These changes will now be ‘locked in’ for the next three years in order to ensure clearer entry criteria, even higher quality entries, and sustainable market weight for successful finalists and winners in all categories.”
The 12 categories for the NutraIngredients-Awards aim to celebrate the best ingredients, finished products, research, companies, innovations and people that industry has to offer in key consumer categories.
The independent awards will be judged by some of the sharpest eyes and minds in nutrition including: Patrick Coppens, Director Regulatory & Scientific Affairs at Food Supplements Europe; Jens Bleiel, CEO, Food for Health Ireland; and Dr Astrid Stuckelberger, from Faculty of Medicine – University of Geneva and Lausanne.
This is your chance to stand out as a leader in your market segment and showcase your success and innovation to the rest of the industry in the following areas:
- Ingredient of the Year: Sports Nutrition
- Ingredient of the Year: Infant Nutrition
- Ingredient of the Year: Healthy Ageing
- Ingredient of the Year: Weight Management
- Probiotic Product of the Year
- Botanical Product of the Year
- Omega-3 Product of the Year
- NutraChampion – in association with Vitafoods Europe 2018
- Personalised Nutrition Initiative
- Start-up Award
- Nutrition Research Project – in association with Vitafoods Europe 2018
- Editors Award for Functional Food Innovation
“The range of categories provides nutraceutical, functional and healthy food industry players with multiple opportunity to enter, and showcase their unique talents and successes,” said NutraIngredients senior editor Nathan Gray, who will chair the judging panel. “From finished product manufacturers to ingredients suppliers, start-ups, universities and contract research organisations – and even individuals who have contributed hugely to the industry – there is a chance for all to get the recognition they deserve.”
“I am also excited that we will launch our own Editors Award category, which in 2018 will offer all parts of the industry an opportunity to enter their most innovative functional food solutions,” he added.
Entry to the awards will be set at a fee of £150+VAT per entry, while entry criteria has been simplified and clarified for 2018. Please see the NutraIngredients Awards website for further details.
