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New Zealand Juice & Beverage Awards 2009

Innovation & quality recognised in New Zealand Juice and Beverage Awards

(5 October 2009) The New Zealand Juice and Beverage industry has recognised excellence and innovation at its annual awards with winners in a range of categories including water, milk based beverage and single origin juice, from both big and small producers, making onto the winner’s dais.

The annual awards are judged by an independent panel representing food technologists, marketers, dieticians, sensory evaluation students and consumers led by Kay McMath from Massey University’s Food Technology department. Winners in the 2009 awards, revealed at the Association’s conference in Rotorua today, came from 96 entries in 14 categories.

Phoenix Organic Apple and Guava Juice from Charles Trading Company was named Supreme Champion, while 100% Squeezed Gisborne/Kerikeri Valencia Orange Juice from Arano Juices is Runner-up.

For the first time this year orange juice was given prominence with its own category intended to highlight the high quality of New Zealand-produced orange juice. The judging of this category (2009 Orange Juice) was completed using a set of sensory evaluation criteria specially developed by a group of graduate students from Massey University as part of their studies and believed to be a first in Australasia. The winner was 100% Squeezed Gisborne/Kerikeri Valencia Orange Juice from Arano Juices

A group of students from Strathallan College in South Auckland was asked to blind taste all entries under supervision by Massey University staff to determine the winner of the Youth Choice Award. The winner was Just Juice Mandarin Passionfruit Peach from Frucor Beverage.

Gallery of photos from the 2009 Awards dinner and presentations.

According to the NZJBA President, James Wilson, the number, quality and variety of beverages entered into this year’s awards are reflective of one of the country’s most innovative sectors. “The local beverage industry provides a wide range of products to meet every taste and occasions. It is particularly pleasing to see the significant growth in the numbers of products being presented for judging especially those drinks reflecting international demand trends for new and different flavours. “It’s a rigorous judging procedure and includes blind taste testing by a panel of independent judges under the supervision of senior staff from Massey University Food Technology Department. It also includes brand and packaging reviews with both technical experts and consumers on the judging panel,” he said.

“As the range of non-alcoholic drinks available to the New Zealand consumer increases it is important they are given guidance about the quality of what is available and these awards are very valuable in providing that lead. We have extremely high production standards in this country and consumers can be confident that members of the NZJBA are working consistently and diligently to ensure all products delivered to the shelves meet or exceed international best practice.”

“We are delighted to be able to deliver to New Zealand consumers a wide range of beverages, something for occasion and purpose, to suit a range of tastes and flavour preferences, judged to be high quality by independent experts."

The complete list of award winners:

Category	Sponsor	Product	Company
1. Smoothies	O-I NZ	SeJuice Feijoa Fling	Pinto Limited
2. Fruit Drinks	Directus International Ltd	Phoenix Organic Sparkling Fruit Drink Blood Orange	Charlie's Trading Company
3. Single Origin Juice	Sutton Group Ltd	Gisborne/ Bay of Plenty Grapefruit Juice	Arano Juices
4. Juice Blends	Salkat NZ Ltd	Phoenix Organic Apple and Guava Juice	Charlie's Trading Company
5. Still Water	AMCOR Beverage Can - NZ	NZ Natural	Frucor Beverages Ltd
6. Sparkling water	O-I NZ	not judged	Insufficient entries
7. Flavoured Water	PALL NZ	Glaceau Triple X Blueberry/ Pomegranate	Coca Cola Oceania
8. Energy / Lifestyle	RD2 International Ltd	Lift Plus	Coca Cola Oceania
9. Carbonated	ECOLAB	Schweppes Ginger Beer	Coca Cola Oceania
10. Diet / Light	Adhesif	Diet Coke	Coca Cola Oceania
11. Tea-based Beverages	NZ Sugar Ltd	Teza - Black Tea and Peach	Greenstone Drinks
12. Milk-based Beverages	Jenkins	*Moccona Mocha*	Frucor Beverages Ltd
New to Market - Runner Up	Sensient Technologies	Benger Gold Apple and Feijoa Juice	Alpine Gold (Co) Ltd

New to Market - Winner	Sutton Group Ltd	*Just Juice Pulped Orange Juice*	Frucor Beverages Ltd
Youth Choice Award	Reynolds Group Ltd	*Just Juice Mandarin Passionfruit Punch*	Frucor Beverages Ltd
2009 Orange Juice	Reynolds Group Ltd	*100% Squeezed Gisborne/ Kerikeri Valencia Orange Juice*	Arano Juices
SUPREME AWARD - Runner-Up	Directus International Ltd	*100% Squeezed Gisborne/ Kerikeri Valencia Orange Juice*	Arano Juices
SUPREME AWARD - Winner	Sensient Technologies	*Phoenix Organic Apple and Guava Juice*	Charlies Trading Company

For further information contact NZJBA Executive Director Kerry R Tyack on 0274 570 942.

Or the brand owners directly:

Charlie’s Trading Company
Ron Curtis
09 -837 5792
021 930 919
ron@charlies.co.nz

Frucor Beverages Ltd
Carl Bergstrom
09-250-0668
09-250-0669
021-535 245
Carl.Bergstrom@danone.com

Arano Juices
Scott Wright
09 – 412 9744
scott.wright@arano.co.nz

Coca Cola Oceania
Karen Bradshaw
09 925 339
kabradshaw@apac.ko.com

Pinto Limited
Bernadette de Bono
03 471 4749
027 555 6554

Greenstone Drinks
Daphne Raj
9 974 4474
rdaphne@greenstone drinks.co.nz

Alpine Gold (Central Otago) Ltd
Wayne Noble
03 445 4474

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