Phillips Is Finalist for New Product Award

A new product from Phillips Foods’ has been selected as a finalist for Best New Retail Product by Seafoodsource.com. Phillips Shrimp Toast is one of 12 products in seafood competing for two 2016 Seafood Excellence Awards, which recognizes the best new products released in the North American market over the past 18 months.

Phillips was featured in the QA Cover Profile “From Sea to Table,” and the company’s Global Quality Assurance Manager Bobby Love is a long-standing member of QA’s Advisory Board.

Eight of the finalists are up for Best New Retail Product are: Bantry Bay America Inc.’s Mussels in a Creamy Stout Sauce, Santa Barbara Smokehouse’s Honey Glazed Oak Roasted Salmon, Aqua Star’s Crab & Shrimp Seafood Feast, Premier Marine Canada’s Waterview Market Shrimp with Sauce, Phillips Foods’ Shrimp Toast, Alaskan Jack’s Seafood Corporation’s Frontier Harvest Alaskan Jack’s Gold Premium Pineapple-Teriyaki Sockeye, Absolutely Lobster’s Absolutely Lobster Homemade Tomato Sauces and French Creek Seafoods’ Kickin’ Seafood Chili. Four will compete for the Best New Foodservice award: Vinh Hoan Corporation’s Char Marked Barramundi, High Liner Foods’ Simply Sauce Seafood Bites, Azuma Foods Internationals Inc.’s Tobikko Umami and Trident Seafoods’ SeaFusions Pacific Cod Bites.

According to SeafoodSource.com, the 2016 finalists were selected from nearly 60 entries in the exposition’s New Product Showcase. The products were evaluated by three seafood industry experts based on their uniqueness and appropriateness to the market, taste profile, packaging, market potential, convenience, nutritional value and originality.

The winners will be announced at Seafood Expo North America & Seafood Processing North America, taking place March 6-8 in Boston. Each finalists’ product will be showcased during the three-day event. On Sunday, March 6, show organizer Diversified Communications, the parent company to SeafoodSource.com, will present the awards, which were created to feature, recognize and showcase the best new seafood products available on the showroom floor in Boston annually.