The Qualité Award is the only mark of excellence for dairy products in South Africa, and is awarded to products of exceptional quality only, namely SA Champion award winners that have obtained a specific minimum point on the international scorecard. Only a very limited number of products obtain this prestigious award and are allowed to display the distinctive logo for the ensuing year, which is supported by the main retailers in South Africa.
SA Dairy Product of the Year Award
All Qualité awarded products are judged by an independent panel of five senior judges to determine the overall winner. The product scoring the highest average point is announced the SA Dairy Product of the Year.
SA Champion Award
The SA Dairy Championships consists of 10 categories and just over 100 classes for end products in the processing line of the dairy industry. The winner in each class of the SA Dairy Championships is awarded the title of SA Champion.
All dairy producers are invited to enter the 2021 South African Dairy Championships, the biggest, oldest and most prestigious dairy event in the country. The championships, hosted by Agri-Expo since 1834, annually attracts around 900 entries from large, medium and...
Lactalis SA’s Président Extra Mature Cheddar was crowned the South African Dairy Product of the Year at the Agri-Expo Qualité Awards on Thursday 26 March 2020. This year’s award ceremony of the annual SA Dairy Championships, the largest dairy competition in...
Two new judges, Oelof Vorster (Head chef of Le chêne restaurant, Franschhoek) and Slindile Khoza (trainee dairy product developer, Woolworths), along with Johan Ehlers (Chief Executive Officer of Agri-Expo), celebrity chef Marlene van der Westhuizen and chief judge...
All dairy producers are invited to enter the 2020 South African Dairy Championships, the biggest, oldest and most prestigious dairy event in the country. The championships, hosted by Agri-Expo since 1834, annually attracts around 900 entries from large, medium and...
Belnori Boutique Cheesery’s Norman Belcher, Johan Ehlers (CEO, Agri-Expo), Rina Belcher and Bongi Nondzama An artisanal cheese made from equal parts goat’s and cow’s milk is South Africa’s 2019 Dairy Product of the Year. St Francis of Ashisi, made by Belnori...
Johan Ehlers (CEO, Agri-Expo), Vernon Manuel (Dairy Specialist, DuPont and 2005 Burgundy Exchange Student), Leonard Majampa (Production Manager, DV Chocolates and 2010 Burgundy Exchange Student), Beverley Schäfer (West Cape Minister of Economic Opportunities) and...
