The full version of the five awards of the ＂4th China Catering Industry Red Bull Awards＂ was officially announced!

2024年8月29日 | admin | cc

On March 28th, as a major part of the "2024 China Catering Industry Summit", the "4th China Catering Industry Red Bull Award" award ceremony was grandly held. The "China Catering Industry Red Bull Award" is dedicated to exploring and recognizing high-quality mid-to-upper reaches of China’s catering industry, and helping China’s catering industry develop with high quality.

On the same day, the five awards of "2024 Top 100 Catering Supply Chain Enterprises", "2024 Catering Industry Influential Enterprises", "2024 Catering Industry Service Benchmarking Enterprises", "2024 Catering Supply Chain Gold Products" and "2024 Catering Industry People of the Year" were announced, with a total of more than 250 companies and 10 entrepreneurs on the list.

Red Bull Awards announced

The five awards were officially announced

The China Catering Industry Red Bull Award was born in 2021. It was co-founded by Red Food Network with official authorities and experts in the catering field, and enjoys a high degree of recognition and authority in the catering field. The "4th China Catering Industry Red Bull Award" has been upgraded and iterated again on the basis of the previous three editions, with a more focused selection dimension and a more diverse selection of objects.

The "4th China Catering Industry Red Bull Awards" not only adjusted the selection dimension and scope, but also streamlined the awards and set five awards.

In addition, the recipients of the awards are also more diverse. In previous years, the recipients of recognition were mostly institutions and enterprises. This year, attention was paid to high-value, high-quality products and characters, and new product awards and character awards were added.

  • Top 100 Catering Supply Chain Enterprises in 2024

As the core award of the "China Catering Industry Red Bull Award", the "Top 100 Catering Supply Chain Enterprises of 2024" aims to select the leading enterprises with strong comprehensive strength in the field of catering supply chain, covering ingredients, seasonings, cold chain logistics and other sectors. The companies required to be listed have outstanding performance in multiple dimensions such as revenue scale, channel coverage, asset status, supply strength, science and technology innovation exploration, and media communication. After multiple competitions, 100 companies with strong comprehensive strength were listed as the "Top 100 Catering Supply Chain Enterprises of 2024".

Among the companies on the list of "Top 100 Catering Supply Chain Enterprises in 2024", the number of food companies is the largest, accounting for 64% of the list; followed by seasoning companies, accounting for 25%; prefabricated food companies on the list accounted for 6%; while the list of equipment and supplies and cold chain logistics companies is relatively small.

From the perspective of the breakdown types of ingredients, the food companies on this list can be roughly divided into seven categories, namely meat and poultry, rice and flour grains and oils, aquatic products, beverages, baking, comprehensive ingredients, and others.

Among them, there are 22 meat and poultry companies on the list, including Dabenong, Dachuan Group, Hengdu Agriculture, Lihua Co., Ltd., Longda Gourmet, Muyuan Co., Ltd., Sunnong Development, Wen’s Co., Ltd., Xiantan Co., Ltd., and New Hope Liuhe. Rice and noodle grain and oil companies on the list include Beidahuang Rice Industry, Cargill China, Jinjian Rice Industry, Jinshahe Group, Jingliang Holdings, Keming Food, Luhua Group, and Sanquan Food. In addition, there are 7 aquatic products companies on the list; 9 beverage companies on the list; and 6, 4, and 3 comprehensive ingredients, baking, and other (vegetable and fruit fungi & soy products) companies on the list respectively.

The seasoning companies on the list account for 25% of the total list. Among them, the compound seasoning companies include Shengen Co., Ltd., Unilever Food Planning, Yihai International, Juhui Food Diao, Chengming Food, Chuanhai Chenyang, Cuihong Food, Huadi Food, Baoli Food, Dandan Pixian Douban, Kraft Heinz, Qianwei Soup, Senshi Butter, Fu Le, Tianwei Food, Wei Haomei, Xintian Hot Pot Oil Plate, Zhang Bingbing Hot Pot Butter, Zhongjing Food, and Jixiangju. Among the basic seasonings, Haitian Flavor Industry, Lee Kum Kee Sauce, Qianhe Flavor Industry, Zhongju High-tech and other companies have topped the list with their strong corporate strength and industry influence.

The "Top 100 Catering Supply Chain Enterprises in 2024" accounted for 6% of the prefabricated food companies on the list, and the companies on the list were Yasui Food, Shrimp Catcher, Delis, Gaishi Food, Emperor Emperor, and Qianwei Yangchu. Among them, Yasui Food has gradually increased its market penetration through the BC-end two-wheel drive; Shrimp Catcher has adopted a large-scale single-product strategy to break through; while Gaishi Food focuses on the research and development of prefabricated cold dishes such as marine food and edible mushroom food.

This year, there are relatively few equipment and cold chain logistics companies on the list, including Star Cold Chain, Ecolab Group, Fuling Technology, Ningbo Jialian, and Huading Cold Chain, a cold chain logistics company.

It is worth noting that among the 100 supply chain companies on the "2024 Top 100 Catering Supply Chain Enterprises" list, there are many listed companies, such as Yasui Food, Baiyang Co., Tianwei Food, New Hope Liuhe, Guolian Aquatic Products, Muyuan Co., Ltd., and Sunnong Development. In addition, there are two companies that are going public, Douban and Jixiangju in Dandan Pixian County.

  • 2024 Catering Industry Influential Enterprise

The "2024 Catering Industry Influential Enterprise" aims to select the upper and middle-tier catering enterprises that have made outstanding contributions or performed well in the sub-sector, covering all sub-sectors of the upper and lower chains of the catering industry. The companies required to be listed have good performance in their respective sub-sector track performance, product innovation and other aspects. After multiple rounds of selection, the final 100 strong enterprises stood out.

From the perspective of the sub-sectors of the companies on the list, they are mainly concentrated in five fields such as food supply, prepared dishes, catering seasonings, equipment and supplies, and cold chain logistics. Among them, the number of food supply companies on the list reached 44, including Bohai Aquatic Products, Chenfei Food, Dahu Shares, Hailianyuan, Pilot Food, Otaigong, Sanyuan Food, Tiannong Food, Baozhiyuan, Lejiaju, and Sanxuan Supply Chain. These companies provide a rich source of ingredients for the catering market by focusing on the sub-sectors of meat and poultry, aquatic products, and dairy products.

At the same time, in the field of catering seasonings, 21 companies such as Prairie Red Sun, Chuanwazi, Manwei Dragon Kitchen, and Yimazi made the list. These companies may focus on hot pot base ingredients or a certain sub-field, such as Baipin Daylight, which is committed to providing a full range of tomato-flavored solutions; Meixin Food Tone, which focuses on providing high-end customized seasonings; Manwei Dragon Kitchen is positioned as a standardized hot pot meal seasoning enterprise; Richen Co., Ltd. provides compound seasoning solutions; Yimazi focuses on vine pepper oil and pepper and hemp-flavored compound seasonings, etc. These companies have brought rich taste solutions to the catering industry. In addition, companies such as Aijia Food, Jiaxian Food, Nuogaomei, and Spicy Red Packet also made the list due to their good influence.

There are 16 companies on the list of prefabricated dishes, including Haodeli, Huifa Food, Weizhixiang, Xianmeilai, Pengji Fang, Ri Cold Food, Ruyi Sanbao, Xincong Kitchen, Xinliang Kee, Xun Weitang, and many others.

It is worth noting that East China has the largest number of companies on the list, reaching 9, such as Weizhixiang, Haodeli, Hai Wenming, Xun Weitang, etc. These companies have converted natural advantages into raw material advantages by exploiting the rich local marine resources, freshwater resources and hilly plain resources, and produced a variety of aquatic prepared dishes, meat and poultry prepared dishes and other products. There are also some companies in South China, Central China, and North China that have a good influence in the field of prepared dishes, such as Xianmeilai, Xueyin Group, Jiujijiu, Pengji Fang, Xinliangji, etc.

In addition, there are also many companies on the list of equipment and supplies, with 16 companies on the list. Among them, there are 12 catering equipment companies, such as Polaroid, a leader in electrostatic lampblack purification equipment, Oak Deer Technology, which focuses on artificial intelligence cooking robots; Kitchen Core Technology, which is committed to providing digital kitchen solutions. In addition, companies such as Green Innovation Equipment, Grid Craft, Extreme Technology, Famous Chef Magnetoelectric, Akita Quick Drink, Shike Lighting, Xiangying Chinese Kitchen, and Youte Intelligent Kitchen also made the list due to their good strength. There are 4 companies on the list of packaging consumables and lighting, among which Hengxin Life, Nanwang Technology, Longjun Environmental Protection and other companies also have a good influence in the field of packaging consumables.

In the field of cold chain logistics, there are two companies including Chuansheng Supply Chain and Perfect Matching Supply Chain. These two cold chain logistics companies are important models for catering companies to build their own supply chains. They achieve the improvement of distribution efficiency and supply chain level through self-built logistics systems, providing a model for the high-quality development of the catering industry. In addition, among other categories, Guanzhan also topped the list with strong influence.

  • 2024 Catering Industry Service Benchmarking Enterprise

"2024 Catering Industry Service Benchmarking Enterprise" aims to select benchmarking enterprises that provide high-quality services for catering enterprises. The selection of enterprises covers catering software, decoration design, consulting, investment and other related fields.

In recent years, with the development of the catering industry and changes in consumer demand, the demand for various professional services from downstream catering enterprises is also increasing. Based on this, the "2024 Catering Industry Service Benchmarking Enterprise" has identified 50 companies that provide excellent services for many catering enterprises.

The companies on the list cover the fields of design and consulting, catering digitalization and cold chain logistics. In terms of specific sub-sectors, there are 27 companies on the list in the field of design and consulting, accounting for 54%. Among them, Mai Design, Chengxin Shijue, Shengyu Consulting, Funai Consulting, Hua Wanli Design, Shanzhi Catering Strategy Consulting, Weihai Company, Asia Food Noodles, Yicai Showa, Yiming Brand, IN. X House and Door and other companies, focusing on the field of catering brand design consulting, have won high recognition in the industry with their professional services in brand perception construction, space planning and design and customer experience optimization.

At the same time, companies in the comprehensive service fields such as Trout, Hua and Hua, Huasi Brand Consulting, Hezhonghe, Gemini Catering, Small Shop Express, Pony Song Strategic Marketing Consulting, Rong Brand, Interior Architecture, September Sheng, Liu Dahua Architectural Design Office, etc. are also developing rapidly. They use their cross-disciplinary design experience and market insight to provide more diverse innovative solutions for catering enterprises, helping many catering enterprises to enhance their brand value and competitiveness.　

In addition, companies on the list, such as Xingbei Group, Golden Bee, Huajin Intellectual Property, and Zhongshen Law Firm, have built strong defensive barriers for catering brands through professional intellectual property services, promoting the sustainable and healthy development of the catering industry.

There are 17 companies on the list in the field of catering digitalization, accounting for 34%. Among them, Ao Qiwei has been ranked among the top 10 catering SaaS companies in the first three consecutive "Red Bull Awards", and has developed steadily in recent years. Meituan Catering System, Delicious No, etc., and other local life service platforms have provided a series of supporting systems for catering companies to improve the local life service ecosystem. Drip Irrigation has created a new revenue-sharing investment and financing model, helping catering companies broaden financing channels.

In addition, Shangshang Staff · Enterprise Edition, Guanyuan Data, Octopus Small Data, Non-code, Smart Operation, Keruyun, Frozen Products Online, Liudurenhe (EC), Qimai Technology, Food Heng Technology, Wandian Palm, Yunji Technology, Conversion Mall and other companies have also successfully made the list by virtue of their unique advantages.

There are 6 companies on the list in the field of cold chain logistics, accounting for 12%. Among them, Rongqing Logistics, SF Cold Transport, Xinxiahui, Compass Logistics, and Zhongcui Cold Chain all have rich experience in cold chain supply management, advanced cold chain technology and perfect infrastructure. Yunlitchi is a one-stop Internet cold chain service platform that links upstream shippers and downstream carriers through bilateral transaction models, forming a new ecosystem of smart cold chain operation, which can help customers quickly build a national cold chain delivery network.

These listed service benchmark enterprises have a good reputation in their respective fields, and have shown strong strength in terms of service quality, innovation ability and market influence.

  • 2024 Food and Beverage Supply Chain Gold Products

"2024 Annual Catering Supply Chain Gold Products" aims to select popular products with high sales, good reputation and good quality in the upstream supply chain enterprises of catering. It requires such products to have good quality and good reputation, and have caused a good response in the catering market. They are gold products that can be played in all dimensions. After strict screening, a total of 65 products were ranked this year due to their excellent market performance.

These gold products have outstanding performance in terms of word-of-mouth, sales volume, innovation and sustainability. They are excellent products with hard power and high reputation that have been tested by the market. Some of these products have become market blockbusters, bringing hundreds of millions or even billions of yuan in revenue to enterprises.

From the category point of view, the products on the list can be roughly divided into four categories: prefabricated dishes, ingredients, seasonings, and others. Among them, the prefabricated dishes have the most products on the list, including Spicy Overlord Chicken from Xinya Xuan, Tiger Skin and Phoenix Feet from Sanxuan Supply Chain, Free Black Fish Fillets from Baixiangshun, Steel Brazed Lamb Skewers from Lisick, Ciba Fritters from Qianwei Yangchu, Mr. Pickled Pickled Pickled Pickled Pickle Fish from Yasui Foods, Farmhouse Crispy Pork from Beautiful Food, Xiaobalong Flavor Grilled Fish from Guolian Aquatic Products, Ruyi Sanbao’s Hand Grab Fan Bone, Qingjiang Fish from Xun Weitang, and Boiled Fish with Pepper and Hemp from Tongwei Foods. A total of 29 items, accounting for 44.6% of the

Among them, 14 are aquatic prefabricated dishes, including fish prefabricated dishes such as sauerkraut fish, pepper and hemp boiled fish, pulp-free pangasius fillets, etc.; shrimp prefabricated dishes such as white jade shrimp slips, sea duck eggs and shrimp balls, spicy crayfish; abalone and sea cucumber prefabricated dishes Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, organic sea cucumber, and prefabricated cold dishes made with marine vegetables – seaweed salad. There are 12 products on the list of meat and poultry prefabricated dishes, including white water fat sausage, fried egg yolk beef balls, and steel braised mutton skewers. There are 3 prefabricated dishes on the list in other categories, namely Ciba fried dough sticks, Xinjiang mutton, leather teeth, roasted buns, and Yangzhou fried rice.

The products on the list of seasonings include Chongqing Old Flavor Hot Pot Base Ingredients in Juhui Meal, Gold Medal Fresh Chicken Soup and Golden Soup in Qianwei Soup, Dry Dish Chili Noodles in Cuihong Food, Bone Soup Ingredients in Dufengxuan, Hot Pot Oil Plate in Xintian Hot Pot Oil Plate, and Beautiful Frog Fish Head Base Ingredients in Shentang Industry, accounting for 20 types, accounting for 30.8% of the total number of products on the list.　

It is worth noting that in recent years, spicy and sour flavors have received extensive attention. Spicy flavors have become the darling of many diners’ tables due to their distinct excitement and addictive charm, while sour flavors have gradually won a place in the hearts of consumers due to their refreshing and greasy-relieving and appetite-boosting characteristics. In recent years, sour and spicy compound seasoning products have been welcomed by the market.

This year’s list of compound seasoning products is dominated by sour and spicy flavors, which fully demonstrates the strong momentum of these two flavors in the seasoning market. For example, the tomato base of Baipin Daylight, the Guizhou red sour soup of Juhui Food, the seven tomato one-pot soup of Chengming Food, the Xiaofeng fresh sunshine fresh tomato hot pot base of Meixin Food, and the Yumeng sour soup of Yumeng Food all focus on sour flavors. In addition to a variety of Sichuan and Chongqing hot pot bases, the spicy flavor type also includes Sichuan Wazi’s roasted pepper sauce, Unilever’s Knorr spicy fresh dew, Cuihong Food’s dry dish chili noodles, and Yimazi’s vine pepper oil. It is understood that these sour and spicy compound seasonings have been widely used in the catering industry.

In terms of food products, there are 15 products on the list, accounting for 23.1% of the total number of products on the list. In terms of sub-categories, the food products on the list this year come from multiple food sub-categories. Among them, 4 dairy products and plant drinks are on the list, while 3 aquatic food products are on the list, and 2 meat and poultry, fruit and vegetable food products are on the list.

Among them, Heyi Muxian Angus rib-eye fat beef, Longjiang Wagyu A3-eye meat steak, Lighthouse jellyfish Rushan oyster, Sandu Port’s three yellow croaker, Guoxin Aquatic deep-sea wild large yellow croaker, and Jixiangju’s small-leaf crispy sauerkraut and Minfu Kee’s small-leaf sauerkraut with high-quality raw materials and traceable sources have high market potential and competitive advantages. Dexin Food’s Tea Coffee Light Milk, Oh Maili OATLY’s Coffee Master Oat Milk, Cezanne Dairy’s Thick Milk, Fino’s Thick Coconut Milk, Chen Non-Food’s Live Bacterial Thick Yogurt, Dragon King Soybean Milk’s Golden Soybean Milk, Jiuyang Soybean Milk’s Longjing Jasmine Soybean Milk Tea, etc., have received extensive attention for helping multiple beverage brands achieve product innovation, and this time they have also been successfully listed.　

There is one other product on the list, which is the 520ml glass bottle soda of Dayao Beverage. In the recent "meal + drink" craze, this product has actively developed more consumption scenarios and improved the market penetration of the product.

  • 2024 Catering Industry Person of the Year

The "2024 People of the Year in the Catering Industry" aims to select influential figures who have made outstanding contributions in the catering industry. The selected figures have made outstanding achievements in the catering industry, have strong influence and innovative spirit, and can set an example for the catering industry. Among them, the entrepreneurs who are listed as "2024 People of the Year in the Catering Industry" are the best among them.

They are Qin Yinglin, chairperson of Muyuan, Wen Zhifen, chairperson of Wen’s shares, Liu Yonghao, chairperson of New Hope Group, Wan Long, chairperson of Shuanghui Development, Liu Mingming, chairperson of Yasui Food, Fu Guangming, chairperson of Sunnong Development, Yang Mingchao, chairperson of Pot Circle Group, Li Zhong, chairperson of Guolian Aquatic Products and chairperson of the National Federation of Industry and Commerce Aquatic Industry Chamber of Commerce, Chen Dan, chairperson of the All-United Agricultural Industry Chamber of Commerce and chairperson of Guangdong Hengxing Group, and Wang Bing, founder and CEO of October Paddy Group.

These leading figures in the catering industry have long been rooted in the relevant fields of the catering industry. With their outstanding leadership, innovative thinking and outstanding performance, they have become leading figures in the industry, leading the direction and trend of the entire industry. These catering giants have attracted much attention for their outstanding performance in the catering industry. Their experience, efforts and contributions have injected inexhaustible impetus and vitality into the prosperity and development of the entire catering industry.

conclusion

The birth of the "4th China Catering Industry Red Bull Award" has witnessed the dazzling light of many outstanding enterprises and individuals in the catering industry. Through the selection of the top 100 enterprises in the catering supply chain, the influential enterprises in the catering industry, the benchmark enterprises in the catering industry service, the gold products in the catering supply chain, and the figures of the catering industry, we have seen the elite forces and innovative achievements in the industry.

In the future, it is expected that these outstanding enterprises and individuals will continue to uphold the spirit of innovation and contribute more to the prosperity and development of the catering industry.

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