Hull-based Home Harvest Salads (HHS), which launched living salads in April 2005, has picked up the latest in a string of awards for its innovative new product range.
The latest recognition for Andrew Johnson, pictured, and his team came at the National Farming Awards on Tuesday evening, at the Hurlingham Club in London, where HHS was named both newcomer of the year and innovator of the year in the revamped NFU ceremony.
Johnson, pictured, has introduced living salad lines to his UK customers and, already, all major supermarkets are stocking the individual trays of varieties including rocket, ruby chard, pak choi and red frill.
The company had already triumphed at the Grower Awards, the Q Awards and was a finalist in the BBC Food & Farming Awards. It is also in line to pick up several prizes in the Waitrose sponsored farming awards at the Royal Show.
Johnson told FPJ: “We are obviously very grateful for this recognition and I particularly would like to thank Sainsbury’s for all of its support and the work that has gone into understanding living salads, from shelf-stackers right through to board directors.
“It is a very innovative product and the aim is to use all of these awards to raise consumer awareness and drive sales upwards for our customers.”
Other award winners at the ceremony sponsored by Tesco and Sainsbury’s included best foodservice enterprise Moorsfresh, and professor John Nix, who was given a lifetime achievement gong for his work editing The Farm Management Pocket Book.
