Welcome to the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards 2025

Now in its 12th year, the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards are renowned for being the most prestigious awards in the Irish food and drink Industry.

Entries into the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards 2025 are now open!

Entries are judged by our independent judging panel of over 100 industry experts during an extremely rigorous judging process. By winning an Irish Quality Food and Drink Award, and displaying the logo on the products, you are demonstrating to both existing and potential customers that you have earned the gold standard of excellence.

All entrants receive detailed feedback from our esteemed panel of judges, and winners also benefit from receiving a recognised accreditation that helps to facilitate new business and accelerate the process of breaking into the retail market.

Take advantage of our Early Bird discounted entry fee by entering your products into this year's awards before midnight on Monday 17 March 2025.

Entries close at midnight on Friday 2 May 2025.

Good luck!

Small Producer Discount

Medium Producer Discount

Early Bird discount ends in...

The Early Bird discount will automatically be added to all entries submitted before midnight Monday 17 March.

There is no Early Bird discount available for businesses taking advantage of either the Small Producer discount or the Medium Producers discount.

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Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards 2024 highlights

Meet our previous winners

Media Coverage

We were thrilled to discover that not only were we named ‘Christmas Retailer of the Year’, but we were the overall ‘Retailer of the Year’ at this year’s prestigious Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards. With 106 awards in total it is a testament to the incredible work of our teams who work across every facet of the buying process - from the buying admin support to the quality testing to the packaging design right through to the marketing.

J.P. Scally, CEO of Lidl Ireland and Northern Ireland

Winning an Irish Quality Food & Drink Award is an endorsement that your brand/product reaches the very highest standards in terms of quality and taste.

It tells retailers, wholesalers and, of course, consumers that your brand is a cut above the rest.

Kathleen Belton, Retail News

We would highly recommend any food producer to enter. The level of expertise and the professionals involved in the whole process is an invaluable exercise for any food business.

The judges feedback is an extremely constructive insight from the food industry which gives you the knowledge your product does need to be a success on the retail market.

Marita Collier, Drummond House Company

The Irish Quality Food Awards and the UK Quality Food Awards give you credibility,

they’re very highly thought of,

so it’s a great introduction to a new company just to be in the Awards.

Susan Robbins Fehily, Wildberry Bakery

We see quite a significant change in rate of sale after we put an Irish Quality Food Awards logo onto our packs. You can really see where consumers come looking for high quality products.

Diarmuid Murphy, Dunnes Stores Simply Better

We have been producing great product for a number of years and award like this further enhances the confidence that we have in our bakery and our team.

Pascal and Sinead Gillard, Jinny's Bakery

Our success in the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards helped to open the door for us to very exciting business opportunities with a number of potential clients in the Republic.

Bryan Boggs, Clandeboye Estate Yoghurt

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