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It's Official... We're Outstanding!

Brian Thomas • Mar 23, 2020

PURE Gold in the Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards

PURE New Zealand Ice Cream have won a Gold Medal for Boysenberry Ice Cream and a Silver Medal for Blackcurrant and Coconut Gelato in the 2020 Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards. The results were announced today and our business owners, Anna Howard and Brian & Linzi Thomas, are thrilled with the recognition brought by these influential, annual awards .

The Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards , principally sponsored by NZ Life and Leisure Magazine, celebrate Kiwis who harvest, grow and make food and drinks. Each year a team of specialist judges assess around 200 products, awarding the best products with an Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal - giving Kiwi food lovers confidence they have found a delicious, locally made product. Gold Medal winning products, like PURE NZ Ice Cream, are eligible to win Champion and Special Awards.

Anna Howard is Head of Production and says, "I'm delighted for the PURE Team that we've received this recognition, as it really does require a team effort to produce outstanding foods. The ingredients list of our Boysenberry Ice Cream is really short! Boysenberries from sunny Nelson and full cream deliver a really intense, creamy berry flavour making it a natural winner. The fruit in the Blackcurrant and Coconut Gelato is also from Nelson, combined with premium coconut cream for a knock-out dairy-free treat."

PURE NZ Ice Cream has a strict philosophy of using 100% natural ingredients, nothing artificial whatsoever, and locally sourced wherever possible. "Sticking to this philosophy comes really naturally to us, and it means all our ice creams, gelatos and sorbets have deliciously intense flavours and colours. Consumers, retailers and hospitality value this point of difference with ordinary ice creams.", adds Anna.

The PURE Freezery is located off Anderson Road in Wanaka Township and ships product daily via frozen distribution to retailers, wholesalers, tourism businesses and food businesses as far South as Invercargill and as far North as Auckland. Our products are available from Farro Fresh and select Fresh Choice, New World and Raeward Fresh stores, as well as through Bidfood nationally and at a wide range of independent food service businesses. Contact us now for more details.

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