Congratulations to Cookon Commercial Catering Equipment, Pac Food, Chenco Foods, Lotus & Ming and Stoddart on taking home the New Product Awards at this year's Fine Food Australia.

The annual awards were announced this evening at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre and celebrated the best new products to hit the Australian market throughout the last twelve months.

Over 100 entries were judged in five separate categories, including Best New Hospitality Product, Best New Bakery Product, Best New Retail Product Australian Made and Best New Foodservice Product.

Cookon Commercial received the Best New Hospitality Equipment Product Award for their Kay Bee Battery Operating Oil Filter Machine. Finalists included Winerhalter for their Winterhalter PT Series and Scott's Ice Australia for their MVH460 Ice Machine R290 Refrigerant. 

Pac Food accepted the Best New Bakery Product award for their Biodegradable Piping Bag. Finalists in this category included Perfect Food Manufacturing with their product Julie's Biscuits and Pac Trading with their Wooden Baking Moulds.

The Best New Retail Product title was awarded to Chenco Foods for their Yum Cha Prawn & Chive Wontons. Cape Foods' Pop Corners and Blue Spice Co's Thai Curry Cooking Sets were runners up in this division.

The Australian Made Award went to Stoddart for their Mobile Fryer. Finalists were Sugar Free Sollutions with their Sugar Free Vanilla Cake and Itha's Puddings & Gourmet Foods.

Lotus & Ming won the Best New Foodservice Product Award for their Rustic by Lotus & Ming. Simpson Farms' Australian Avocado Pulp and FruitBroo's range of hot drinks were named as finalists.