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 closed and judging has finished.

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.

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Our FREE to enter Performance Awards are still open for entries!

Entry deadline: midnight Friday 25 July

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The Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards are renowned for recognising and celebrating the best food products in Irish retail, wholesale and foodservice sectors. However, it is the individuals and teams behind these products’ development, production and distribution that makes them award winning. It is in recognition of this that we have included the performance awards to the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards line-up. 

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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

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

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
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