The Qualité Awards

A Qualité Award is a symbol of outstanding quality for dairy products and is only awarded to South African Dairy Champions, which have obtained a specific minimum point on the international scorecard. The first objective is to reward manufacturers who have achieved outstanding quality in their products and secondly to make these products recognizable to the client in the trade.

Only a very limited number of products obtain this prestigious Award during the annual South African Dairy Championships, which are then allowed to display the distinctive logo on the products for the ensuing year. Agri-Expo is continuing to promote the value of the Award amongst manufacturers, consumers, retailers and food aficionados in order to increase the trust in the award. The main retailers in South Africa support the Qualité Award and have given their support to increase consumer awareness.

Products which achieved a 2010 Qualité Award:

No.	Product	Company	Class
1	Mooi River Salted butter	Clover SA	Salted butter
2	Butro	Clover SA	Innovative butter
3	1906 Extra Matured Cheddar	Clover SA	Extra Mature Cheddar
4	By George butter	Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses	Salted butter
5	Bonnita salted butter	Parmalat SA	Salted butter
6	Parmalat Matured Cheddar	Parmalat SA	Matured Cheddar
7	Brown’s Soft cheese	Sunpower Nairobi	Soft Cheese
8	Antique Gouda	Sunpower Nairobi	Extra Hard cheese
9	Raclette	Klein River Cheese	Semi-soft cheese
10	De Pekelaar Boerenkaas	Morning Milk	Hard cheese
11	Halloumi	La Rochelle Goat’s milk	Goat’s Halloumi
12	Dowry	La Rochelle Goat’s milk	Soft goat’s milk cheese
13	Highvelder Classic	Belnori Boutique Cheesery	Semi-hard goat’s cheese
14	Goatpeter Farm cheese	Goat Peter	Hard Goat’s cheese
15	Lausanne Amasi	Lausanne Dairies	Amasi
16	Fairfield fat free chunky cottage cheese	Fairfield Dairies	Fat free chunky cottage cheese
17	Spar Peach low fat yoghurt	Fairfield Dairies	Low fat fruit yogurt
18	Spar passion fruit low fat fruit yogurt	Fairfield Dairies	Low fat fruit yogurt
19	P & P Plain cream cheese	Lancewood Holdings	Cream cheese
20	Lancewood creamed cottage cheese	Lancewood Holdings	Cream cottage cheese

Consumers are encouraged to look out for these outstanding cheeses to experience their exceptional flavours.