A total of 59 award winners were recognised, including our main awards for hens, broilers, dairy cattle, pigs and rabbits, our Chinese Producer Awards, our 2018 Marketing and Innovation Awards and this year's prestigious Special Recognition Award.

Our 2018 Award winners alone are set to improve the lives of over 200 million animals each year.

Overall there were 14 Good Egg Awards, three Good Chicken Awards, two Good Dairy Commendations, one Good Calf Commendation, four Good Rabbit Commendations and three Good Pig Awards. Find out more about this year's winners here.

Compassion has continued to align its awards programme to meet the developing demands of the market. This year, the conditions for awarding the Good Egg Award were strengthened to support the recent wave of 2025 corporate commitments to cage-free egg production. The Good Chicken Award was also adapted in line with the criteria for the Better Chicken Commitment, which many companies in the US and EU have recently signed up to.

Special Recognition Award

This year, UK-based Winterbotham Darby was awarded Compassion's Special Recognition Award which is kindly supported by the Sir Peter O'Sullevan Charitable Trust.

Since 2014, Winterbotham Darby has been working closely with Compassion to promote higher welfare practices in the pig sector across continental Europe. They have developed a unique Gold, Silver, Bronze animal welfare certification scheme for their continental meat suppliers which is driving welfare improvements and helping to secure cage-free commitments across their European supply chain.

Their high and fruitful engagement with their suppliers has led to some outstanding outcomes, particularly in countries like Italy and Spain - not known for their higher welfare credentials – but where their suppliers are leading the way on free-farrowing systems in their countries.

Paris plays host to the 2018 Awards