2025
AWARDS SHOW

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Growing Further Awards 2025, who shared a prize fund of €100,000. These innovative minds have not only demonstrated outstanding concepts, but have convinced the jury of experts, and proven their commitment to shaping the future of food.

MEET THE WINNERS

Hibyrd.io

OVERALL WINNER
& PRODUCTION

BillionCarbon

BillionCarbon is decarbonising the food supply chain by nutrient mining from food waste to convert to micro-nutrient rich liquid bio-fertiliser concentrate and insect protein, using IoT-enabled micro-climate controlled bioreactor technology.
billioncarbon.com

Nerite.tech

BUILT
ENVIRONMENT

Terratonics

Terratonics are all about healing the Earth and they are doing this through developing and providing sustainable ecological building systems. With a focus on innovation and sustainability, Terratonics is leading the way in creating eco-friendly and durable structures that stand the test of time.
terratonics.ie

Optiwiser.de

DISTRIBUTION
& RETAIL

CU Mehrweg

CU Mehrweg is a full-service pooling provider for reusable packaging in the food industry and retail. We offer a durable and consumer-friendly reusable packaging solution and manage the cleaning, quality control and logistics.
cu-mehrweg.com

CUSTOMER
ENGAGEMENT

Greenpage

Too often your sustainability efforts go to waste because your customers don’t understand your certs, don’t trust your claims or because you can’t tell the full story in the right place at the right time. Never miss another customer with Greenpage’s communication toolkit.
greenpage.io

Growing Further Awards

BEST BUD
AWARD

VOTED FOR BY AUDIENCE MEMBERS

SkoneLabs

SkoneLabs is on a mission to monitor food quality and combat food loss and wastage in the fresh food industry by leveraging IoT and AI. By accurately predicting when food is likely to spoil, SkoneLabs provides actionable insights that help minimize loss and waste.
skonelabs.com

Growing Further Awards
Growing Further Awards
Growing Further Awards

PRIZE FUND

Each category winner received €12,500 while the overall winner will receive an additional €50,000, making their total prize €62,500.

Prize Fund

HOW TO APPLY

Step 1: Self-Assessment

The awards are open to anyone with innovative businesses (from very early-stage to more developed concepts) planning to positively impact any point of the grocery-retail supply chain.

If you have not been active for more than 5 years or if you have less than 30 employees, then the award programme might be right for you!

Step 2: Application

If you would like to apply, please fill out the application form:
HERE

Step 3: Shortlisting

Our judging process will assess all applications through the lens of « Innovation, Sustainability, Usability, and Scalability ». To learn more about our judging panel and how we will assess and weight our judging criteria click here.

Step 4: Video interview process

All shortlisted companies will be asked to attend a video interview which will allow them to pitch their product to our judging panel. From this process, the judges will choose the finalist who will be invited to the final Awards Day in January.

Step 5: Awards Day

Up to three entrants for each of the four categories will go forward to our Awards Day in January 2024 in Dublin for an opportunity to pitch their business to the judges in person. The four category winners will be announced on the day. Finally, the business who scores highest on the criteria of « Innovation, Sustainability, Usability & Scalability » will be declared the overall winner.