Beston Global Food Company (ASX: BFC) has just received another two major awards, bringing the company's Industry Awards’ tally to 119 within a very short period of time.  

Beston's Parmesan was named "Champion" and Beston's Vintage Black Wax Vintage was named "People's Favourite" at the 2020 Australian Grand Dairy Awards. 

Master Cheesemaker, Paul Connolly, could not be prouder. 

“It’s an absolute honour and privilege to be awarded these accolades – I classify this as one of my ‘career highs’ and it’s testament to the consistent level of quality products produced by our team of talented Cheesemakers”, said Mr Connolly. 

Chief Executive of BFC, Jonathan Hicks, said, “it was less than a year ago when BFC’s Vintage Cheddar Cheese was awarded the “Christian Hansen Cup” (aka “Australia’s Best Cheddar Cheese”), for the second time in the three years by the Dairy Industry Association of Australia - and now to receive the title of “Champion” by Dairy Australia and overall ‘Winner’ by the Australian public, is quite simply an endorsement of BFC’s stature in this space.”

The Australian Grand Dairy Awards were established in 1999 by Dairy Australia, the national services body of the Australian dairy industry, to recognise and reward excellence and innovation in Australian dairy produce, as well as acknowledging the achievements of the “highly skilled, pioneering people who produce those products” (Dairy Australia).

“To even qualify to enter this awards’ competition is a year-long process in itself, with entries comprised of only gold medal-winning products that are made from Australian milk,” said Mr Hicks. “This means that all nominees have already been through rigorous judging processes at Australian State-based qualifying competitions within the year leading up to the prestigious annual Australian Grand Dairy Awards. Once you get to this stage, the board is wiped clean and everything starts from scratch - and so the process begins again…only this time it’s between the ‘best of the best’ cheeses in their respective categories, and even the public get to have their say as well.” 

In 2019 BFC was named amongst the top 25 winners of the Fast Movers SA Awards; a significant achievement based on sustained revenue growth for a company which only started operations four years ago.  

The endorsement of ‘consistent premium quality’ cheese and overall company achievements reflected by all these awards have, importantly, also been reflected in a significant increase in the production and sales of BFC’s cheeses over the past year.

At its Annual General Meeting on 28 November, 2019, BFC noted that the Company’s sales revenues had increased to $84.8million in 2018-19 (up by 77% on the previous year) and that cheese production was likely to double to around 11,200MT in 2019-20.

“Our sales network now covers domestic retail, foodservice and ingredient customers, based across all mainland States with both retail and foodservice dairy goods covered within our international trading operations,” said Mr Hicks.

“A lot has been achieved over the course of the last 12-18 months to continue to drive BFC’s transition of its core dairy and meat businesses from start-up phase to a commercially sustainable enterprise. From the dairy perspective, BFC will continue its focus on making premium quality products, guided by Paul Connolly and produced with the highest quality milk from South Australian Dairy Farmers. We’re already looking forward to seeing what our awards’ tally will be at the end of this year.” 

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