The New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association
The New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association
2013 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards

(30 May 2013) The 17th New Zealand Ice Cream Awards were announced in Wellington this evening Thursday, 30th of May, at a special Awards Dinner .

Full media release here.

There were a record 307 entries for this year's New Zealand Ice Cream Awards!

From these, 72 Silver Awards, 38 Gold Awards, and 12 Best In Category Awards were presented.

Two Supreme Awards were awarded to the best overall ice creams out of 9 different categories, one for large manufacturers, and one for smaller, boutique producers.

The Supreme Award for a Large Manufacturer this year went to Tip Top Boysenberry Ripple made by Tip Top.

This ice cream also won the Best in Category for Standard Ice Cream.

Supreme Award for a Boutique Manufacturer this year was awarded to an entry in the Gelato category. The winning entry was Licorice Gelato made by Takapuna Beach Café and Store.

Takapuna Beach Café and Store has now won the Supreme Award three years in a row - last year they won it for their Salted Caramel Gelato.

This year the new "Best of" category, introduced lastyear, featured a favourite ice cream flavour, BEST OF Cookies & Cream.

Tip Top Cookies & Cream made by Tip Top was the winner of this Award.

Tip Top also won the Best in Categories for

· the Standard Ice Cream Category with their Tip Top Boysenberry Ripple Ice Cream - a repeat winner from 2010, 2011 and 2012

· the Standard Vanilla Ice Cream Category with their Tip Top Vanilla Ice Cream

· the Low Fat Category with their Tip Top Creamy Yoghurt Ice Cream Strawberry for the second year running.

Another new Award, introduced for the first time last year, was for the "Best New to Market", where any product new to retail in the last 12 months was eligible.

Rum & Raisin Gelato made by Zuzus Gelato Ltd won this award.

Twelve children from Point England School in Auckland judged and determined the winner of the Kids Choice Category (more here).

Much Moore Wonders Favourite Trio made by Kiwi Ice Cream Company Ltd won the Kids Choice Award.

The Export Category was won by Emerald Foods Ltd, with their Private Label Japanese Vanilla.

Full list of 2013 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards Category winners, Awards and sponsors.


Each Category was sponsored by an Associate Member of this Association. The categories and sponsors of the 2013 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards are:

CATEGORYSPONSOR
1 Standard Vanilla Ice Cream Formula Foods
2 Standard Ice Cream Invita NZ Ltd
3 Best of Cookies and Cream Fonterra NZ
4 Premium Vanilla Ice Cream Sensient Technologies
5 Premium Ice Cream Chelsea Sugar
6 Open Creative Brenntag New Zealand
7 Kids Choice IFF
8 Export Ice Cream Eurofins
9 Gelato Huhtamaki
10 Sorbet RD2 International
11 Low Fat Hawkins Watts New Zealand
12 “New to Market” Award Alto Food Packaging

Full list of 2013 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards Category winners, Awards and sponsors.

Photos from the 2013 NZ Ice Cream Awards presentations and Dinner.

Or contact:
The Executive Secretary
New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers’ Assn (Inc)
PO Box 9364, Wellington 6141
Telephone (04) 385 1410
Fax No. (04) 384 3980
Email info@nzicecream.org.nz
Website www.nzicecream.org.nz




About the New Zealand Ice Cream Awards

The New Zealand Ice Cream Awards were introduced in 1997 by The New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers’ Association (Inc.) to promote and publicise the high standard of New Zealand ice cream.

Judging is held in May at the Massey University Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health (IFNHH), Albany campus, Auckland, 3 weeks prior to the Association’s Annual Conference.



Awards judging, 2008

Judging involves awarding points for a number of key attributes in different properties. Appearance is worth 10 points, Body and Texture - 30 points, Flavour - 50 points and Melting properties - 10 points. Gold Awards are given to entries with more than 95 points, Silver Awards to those between 90 and 95 points.

Over its history there have been various categories for Standard and Premium ice creams, Gelato, Sorbet and Low Fat.

A popular category has been Open Creative which was established to promote creativity in ice cream and frozen confectionery. Examples of entries in this category would be products made and served on the premises of restaurants, hotels and cafés, or produced by polytechnics, or R&D departments of manufacturers and suppliers.

The Export category was introduced for products designed specifically for export and a Packaging category was also added to cater for Packaging only, to encourage innovation and creativity in packaging, as well as complying with the New Zealand Packaging Accord.

Local schoolchildren are invited to be guest judges for the Kids Choice category.

The children are briefed by the Chief Awards Judge, and judge each entry according to the following criteria:
Appearance
Body and Texture
Flavour
Overall liking

Then it comes down to rating each entry on a scale of “Really yukky” to “Really yummy” and choosing their overall favourite. There is a need for gender split between the guest judges as boys often have definite preferences from girls!



Kids Choice judging, 2006

Entries have the chance to win Silver, Gold, 'Best in Category' and Supreme Awards.

Since 2011, two Supreme Awards have been on offer - one for Large Manufacturers, and a separate Supreme Award for Boutique Manufacturers. To qualify as a Boutique manufacturer, the manufacturer must produce less than 500,000 litres per annum.

The New Zealand Ice Cream Awards are announced and presented at the NZICMA Conference Awards Dinner, usually held on the Thursday evening of the Association's annual Conference.




Any further information is available from:

Mrs Jenny de Lisle
NZICMA Secretary
Office: 04 385 1410
Mrs Kay McMath
Chief Judge
Mobile: 021 88 1643




Historical information on the New Zealand Ice Cream Awards for the years 2000 through to 2012 is also available here on the Association’s website:

Awards 2011
Awards 2010
Awards 2009
Awards 2008
Awards 2007
Awards 2006
Awards 2005
Awards 2004
Awards 2003
Awards 2002
Awards 2001
Awards 2000


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2013 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards - full media release and summary.


Full list of 2013 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards Category winners, Awards and sponsors.


Kids Choice judging for the 2013 NZ Ice Cream Awards.


Photos from the 2013 NZ Ice Cream Awards presentations and Dinner.

2013 Supreme Award for a Large Manufacturer



Tip Top Boysenberry Ripple Ice Cream
made by Fonterra Brands (Tip Top Ltd)



2013 Supreme Award for a Boutique Manufacturer



Licorice Gelato
made by Takapuna Beach Café and Store

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