Award-winning online food companies
Gousto
Online food company delivering all the ingredients you need to prepare meals from a weekly menu selection. Delivery includes the right portions of fresh meat, fish, cheese, vegetables and spices together with recipe cards.
- Gousto enjoys a Truspilot rating of Excellent (9.3 out of 10) based on customer reviews up to end October 2014.
- In a recent Guardian Cook Off, covering companies delivering ingredients to cook meals, Gousto came up first against its leading competitor.
- Gousto have won a 2014 UK Customer Experience Award for Insight & Feedback (A Focus on Understanding).
Womersley Foods
Yorkshire artisan maker of fine fruit vinegars and herb jellies. The recipes are balanced to allow maximum versatility in the kitchen, whilst ensuring that the true aromas of all the flavours always shine through
- Blackcurrant & Rosemary vinegar has won 2 star gold in 2010-2011 Guild of Fine Food Awards
- Highly commended - Local Producer - Yorkshire Life Food & Drink Awards 2010-2011
- Silver Pentaward 2010 Luxury Gourmet Food
- Winner of 3 awards at the Guild of Fine Foods' Great Taste Awards 2011 - Two Gold for the Geranium jelly and the Golden Raspberry and Apache Chilli Dressing and One Gold for the Blackberry Vinegar
- Womersley's Raspberry Vinegar has been awarded Gold - 3 stars - and Top50 in the 2012 Great Taste Awards and their Lime, Black Pepper & Lavender Vinegar has won Gold - 2 stars
- Womersley have won several awards at the Great Taste 2014 including 3 Gold Stars and a Top 50 Foods for their Golden Raspberry & Apache Chilli Vinegar.
Gower Cottage Brownies
Founded by Kate Jenkins, Gower Cottage Brownies has been recognised by many as the maker of Best Brownies in the UK. Every one of their Brownie parcels is baked fresh to order and shipped the same day - a perfect gift
- Gold winner - Specialty foods - Healthy options - Wales the True Taste Food & Drink Awards 2010-2011 and bronze winner in the confectionery (other baked foods) category
- Runner-up - online retailer - Observer Food Monthly Awards 2010 and 2011 - named Best Welsh Independent Retailer
- Runner up – Swansea Life's Best Local Produce 2009
- Ranked #27 in The Independent Top 50 Food Websites - 2011
- Gold Star from The Great Taste Awards 2011
- Ranked #13 in Smarta 100 2011 winners list
- Gower Cottage Brownies was the 2012 - Observer Food Monthly Award Runner up for the 3rd year running in Best Independent Retailer category
Abel & Cole
Home delivery of seasonal, organic fruit and vegetables from a network of organic farms, not dissimilar to the farmers market that delivers to your door.
- Winners - Contact Centre Small Teams - UK Customer Experience of the Year - UK Customer Experience Awards 2012
- Winner - The Huthwaite International Customer Service Team of the Year and Customer Service Team of the Year (General Companies) - National Customer Service Awards 2008
- Finalist for Customer Service Team of the Year, National Customer Service Awards 2009 and Finalist for Best Internet/Delivery Service, Natural & Organic Awards 2009
- Best Home Delivery Service - Natural & Organic Awards 2008
- Winners - Contact Centre Small Teams - UK Customer Experience of the Year - UK Customer Experience Awards 2011
Graze
Convenient way to get great tasting healthy food while you are at work, Graze delivers fresh fruits, delicious nuts, seeds & dried fruits, tasty crackers & olives, as well as some other natural treats, in a box through the post
- New Product of the Year - 2009 Growing Business Awards organised by the CBI and Real Business magazine
- Best food product of the year 2009 - Daily Candy Sweetest Things 2009
- Named in the Smarta 100 winners list - 2010
- Graze have won the Social Media & Email category in the UK Customer Experience Awards 2014.
The Gourmet Cupcake Company
Lovingly creating delicious handmade cupcakes for every occasion. Cupcakes made for: baby showers, corporate events, weddings, birthdays etc. Delivers cupcakes throughout the UK. Also offers cupcake classes, cupcake kits and cupcake cases
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- Triple Winner - Iron Cupcake competition - London - August 2009: Eton Mess cupcakes - November 2009: Spice Girls cupcakes and December 2009: Chocolate marshmallow coconut snowballs cupcake ; Winner - iron cupcake - london - May 2010 - Professional co
- Finalist - Young Entrepreneur of the Year - Essex Business Excellence Awards 2010