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Overall Awards

The UK’s only industry awards for free from food & drink

Overall Awards

In addition to winning medals in the main food & drink categories, you could be in with a chance of winning one of our Overall Awards which could help further differentiate your product or brand.

To be eligible for any of the Overall Awards below, products must be entered into Main Categories. You cannot enter a product directly into these awards – but products entered into main categories may, if they fulfil the criteria below, win!

Free From Brands of the Year

This award recognises the role of brands in the development of the free from sector. This award considers the products in a brand’s range.

To qualify for this award, entrants will need to have entered a minimum of 3 products into the awards for a ‘Small or Micro Brand’, and 6 for a ‘Large Brand’.

We determine micro, small & large as per our entry fee criteria:

  • Micro: turning over £0-£300,000
  • Small: turning over £300,001- £3,000,000
  • Large: turning over <£3,000,001


Free From Products of the Year Awards

Retailer Free From Food / Free From Food / Free From Drink

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The Free From Food Awards presentation culminates in three awards given to individual food and drink products: two from brands, and one from a retailer – these are the best of the best, where gold winners in each category go head to head to be crowned with these prestigious titles.  They are the awards that everyone wants to win and inevitably receive the most amount of coverage and promotion during and after the event.

These awards are:

  • Retailer Free From Food Product of the Year
  • Free From Drink Product of the Year
  • Free From Food Product of the Year


Free From Retailers of the Year

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Our well established award recognising the crucial role that the supermarkets play in the free from sector. We will be making two awards this year:

  • Large Retailer of the Year (for big shop mission retailers)
  • Convenience Retailer of the Year (for limited range retailers)

Large ROTY requires a minimum entry of 40 products into full price categories, of which the top scoring 30 will be considered for this award.
Convenience ROTY requires a minimum entry of 20 products into full price categories, of which the top scoring 15 will be considered for this award.



To find out more about entering, please read our Entry Guide.

If you are ready to enter, please either create or log in to your account here or via Account Logins, link top right; or simply ‘click to enter’ the link in each category below which will take you to the entry form you have chosen, via your account.

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