Good Food SME Awards Announces Winners
Thursday 21 May 2026
Good Food, the UK’s number one food media brand, has announced the nine category winners of the inaugural Good Food SME Awards, celebrating the small and medium-sized businesses whose innovation, creativity and commitment are making an impact in the food, drink and health industry.
The nine category winners are as follows:
- Best Creative/Branding – Miss Kim
- Family-run Business Award – The Jolly Hog
- Best Innovation – One Good Thing (OGT)
- Best Social Voice – BOSH!
- Inspiring Founder – Veg Life
- Best Storytelling of a Brand – The Jolly Hog
- Sustainability & CSR Award – ChangeKitchen CIC
- Good Health By Good Food Award – The Ferm
- Disruptor Award – All Things
All winners will be included in digital advertorial and print advertorial features alongside other category winners on the Good Food website and magazine, plus 10% off their next media campaign with Good Food.
The overall winner, who will receive £25,000 of promotional media spend across Good Food platforms which can include print, podcasts and digital allowing them to reach 16 million food lovers. The winner, who will be announced at the Good Food Summer Show will also receive a stand at the Good Food Show Winter at Birmingham’s NEC, worth up to £15,000.
Winners were selected by an expert judging panel including Mex Ibrahim, co-founder of Women in the Food Industry; Good Food’s Head of Brand Trust, Lulu Grimes; business growth expert, Saskia Roberts; Immediate’s Food Portfolio Health Editor, Emma Hartfield; Immediate’s Chief Commercial Officer, Christina Hawley; Dan Hutson, MD of Nutracheck; and Good Food’s Senior Food Editor Barney Desmazery.
The nine Highly Commended brands are as follows:
- Best Creative/Branding – Alkmonton Dairy
- Family-run Business Award – Chutree and Peasy
- Best Innovation – HOLOS
- Best Social Voice – Renais
- Inspiring Founder – Superkeen
- Best Storytelling of a Brand – Superkeen
- Sustainability & CSR Award – Wildfarmed
- Good Health By Good Food Award – Citizens of Soil
- Disruptor Award – symplicity
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