The 2013 Seafood Excellence Awards winners were announced today at the International Boston Seafood Show. St. Mary’s River Smokehouses won the Best New Retail award for their Oven Smoked Salmon Stix and Phillips Foods won the Best New Foodservice award for their Culinary Crab.
Winners were selected from a group of finalists during a live judging by a panel of seafood buyers and experts from the retail and foodservice industries. This year’s judges included Kim Taylor, seafood category manager for Delhaize America; Sunil Contractor, finfish category manager for U.S. Foods; and David Bolosan, director of product innovation for Black Angus Steakhouse.
Finalists were previously selected through a screening of products participating in the 2013 International Boston Seafood Show New Product Showcase. The New Product Showcase features seafood products, condiments and culinary dishes launched in the past year by exhibiting companies.
The Seafood Excellence Awards serve to recognize the product leaders in the North American seafood market.
Co-located with Seafood Processing America, the International Boston Seafood Show is North America’s largest seafood trade event, drawing 19,000 buyers and sellers from more than 100 countries and over 1000 exhibiting companies.
The International Boston Seafood Show/Seafood Processing America is produced by Diversified Business Communications, publisher of SeaFood Business magazine and SeafoodSource.
