Over 50 awards were presented across five categories: Compassion’s existing Good Egg Award, Good Chicken Award and Good Dairy Award; our newly launched Good Pig Award and, new for this year, the ‘Leadership and Innovation in Retail’ category.

Good Egg Awards were presented to Premier Foods, KFC and MacDonald Hotels & Resorts in recognition of their commitment to using cage-free eggs. Jamie Oliver was also a big winner, receiving a Good Chicken Award for the development of his range of higher welfare chicken products with Moy Park, while Waitrose, M&S, and Prêt A Manger all won Good Pig Awards.

Smaller companies such as retail newcomers Good Food Nation (Good Egg and Good Dairy winners), The Hummingbird Bakery (Good Egg winner) and family run Woodland’s Jersey Beef, who received a Good Calf Commendation, all picked up awards.

The inaugural ‘Leadership and Innovation in Retail’ category, which challenged supermarkets to present a case study demonstrating their most pioneering work to improve farm animal welfare over the past 12 months, was presented to Sainsbury’s for its Pig Concept Farm, which is trialling an indoor free-farrowing system based on the PigSAFE design.

Steve McIvor, Director of Food Business, Compassion in World Farming, said: “The awards are a vital tool that allows us to engage and converse with food companies under the banner of recognition and celebration which is very successful in helping us forge strong relationships. We would like to congratulate all of our winners for the huge difference they are making to the lives of thousands of farm animals. We need more businesses to follow their excellent example and keep the momentum going across the industry”.

In the six years since the first Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards over 270 million hens, chickens, pigs, dairy cows and calves are now set to benefit each year as a result of award winners’ policies.

Good Egg Award Winners:

Burger King UK

Fiona Cairns Ltd.

Good Food Nation

Harrison Catering Services

HSBC HQ and Regions

KFC

MacDonald Hotels & Resorts

One Good Egg

Pfizer UK Staff Restaurants

Premier Foods

Riverford

Sodexo UK offices

Soho Coffee Company

Talkington Bates

The Co-operative Group staff restaurants

the happy egg co.

The Hummingbird Bakery

The Pudding Compartment

Thomas Franks

Good Chicken Award Winners:

Apricot Catering

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Eversfield Organic

Jamie Oliver

Pride Catering

Riverford

Sutton Hoo

Good Dairy Award Winners:

Acorn Dairy

Kimbers’ Farm Shop

Good Food Nation

Riverford

Sanclêr

Tossed

Good Calf Commendation Winner:

Woodlands Jersey Beef

Good Pig Award Winners:

Anna’s Happy Trotters / LKL Farming

Blythburgh Free Range Pork

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Crazy Bear Group

Dalehead (BQP)

Dent Ltd.

Eversfield Organic

Laverstoke Park Farm

M&S

Packington Free Range

Prêt a Manger

Riverford

The Well Hung Meat Company

Virgin Trains

Waitrose

Good Sow Commendation Winner:

Midland Pig Producers

Leadership and Innovation in Retail Winner:

Sainsbury’s

Big Businesses Celebrate at Compassion Awards