Export Award for Loch Duart at Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Awards 2014

Friday night 24th Oct. at The Kingsmills Hotel Inverness – Highland and Islands Food and Drink Awards Loch Duart Ltd wins the prestigious Export Award and also shortlisted for Healthier Food & Drink Award.
By: Loch Duart Ltd
Nov. 3, 2014 - PRLog -- Export Award (Winner 2014)

Loch Duart Ltd won the export award because of the strength of its business in Dubai and the Middle East.  After our first exploration into Dubai in 2008, it became one of our target markets. Sales growth from zero to £750,000 in this market since 2011 is telling but fails to highlight the huge achievement of the prominence of the Loch Duart brand on the menu in the best restaurants in Dubai.

Factors that won this important award are the commitment of our distributor and the work we did with their sales department, making presentations directly to key customers, being the first to gain Halal approval for our feed and shortening the delivery time to market through new services out of Glasgow airport.

However Loch Duart has always targeted export as a key component of our business. “Our success has been to raise our brand in markets all over the world,” Andy Bing said. “We have learnt that getting our name on the menus of top restaurants gives us the prestige to develop long-term contracts.” Loch Duart salmon is now served from the United States of America to Japan and from South Africa to Italy. “This is not just a measure of our sales effort but a credit to all of the people who work in our company,” he added.

Healthier Food & Drink (Shortlisted)

Loch Duart believes that wholesome healthy food is critical for good health and a good diet. The great value of salmon and fish like it is in the high levels of Omega 3 oils that you consume when you eat it.

Loch Duart’s fish are fed a specially selected diet to ensure the best health-giving properties in the fish when it reaches the people who consume our salmon, wherever they are in the world. These qualities also give it a flavour that is rarely matched. The strategy of our farm is to grow food that gives a wonderful meal whilst making sure that the people that eat it get all the health benefits they should.

Loch Duart’s interest in the health benefits was cemented in 2007 through participation in research with the Department of Human Nutrition at Glasgow University Hospital.  This clinical study was published in 2007 in a leading medical journal and revealed the significant health benefits of eating salmon.  Coordinated by Scottish Quality Salmon, all the salmon supplied came from our farm - Loch Duart.  The study showed that, when compared with subjects who had no fish in their diet, those who ate 125g portions of omega-3 rich farmed Atlantic salmon daily showed that:

Based on the combined effects of daily salmon consumption on blood pressure and the changes in blood fat and cholesterol levels in healthy, non-obese subjects, the researchers estimated that the risk of Coronary Heart Disease is reduced by around 25%.

The Nutrition Analytical Service at the University of Stirling's Institute of Aquaculture was commissioned in 2014 to carry out fatty acid analysis of salmon samples [five farmed Atlantic (salmo salar) and one wild Pacific (oncorhynchus keta)] from UK fish retailers.  In this analysis Loch Duart’s salmon had the highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids, twice the levels of the Norwegian sample tested.

Editor’s Notes:          Loch Duart Ltd is an independent Scottish salmon farm based in North West Scotland.  Producing 5,000 tonnes per year, it employs about 100 people in the Hebrides and Sutherland.  The salmon is sold to leading restaurants and retailers at home and abroad.

Loch Duart’s unique farming methods include low density farming, a unique rotational fallowing system, swim-throughs and feed from sustainable sources to ensure lean, fit fish. The first fish farm in the world to achieve RSPCA Freedom Food approval, Loch Duart is run on the belief that welfare and taste are inextricably linked.

Loch Duart’s smokehouse is on South Uist.  Hot and cold smoked salmon is sold in the UK and abroad.

The HIFD Awards, now in their tenth year, encourage food and drink businesses to be innovative, forward thinking and collaborative whilst celebrating excellence and achievement.  With some of the best natural produce in the world, the Awards showcase the wide range of food and drink products in the region and the equally diverse profile of businesses, from internationally renowned companies to small, pioneering producers.

Export Award:  In this category judges were looking for businesses that have made a conscious effort to develop export markets; to overcome export challenges and have shown a clear commitment to international trade; that can demonstrate export growth (e.g. increased export turnover); have established a strong export brand and can show a clear understanding of the supply chain in the export market.

Healthier Food and Drink Award: This Award recognises food and drink based businesses that have demonstrated a strong commitment to developing, incorporating and promoting good nutrition and healthy eating qualities into its product or services.

Contact
Nick Joy
***@lochduart.com
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Source:Loch Duart Ltd
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Tags:Food, Business, Dubai
Industry:Agriculture, Business, Food
Location:East Lothian - England
Subject:Awards
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