new zeal at an re d g e h t competition ~ 2020 ~

ENTRY INFORMATION THE GREAT NEW ZEALAND SAUSAGE COMPETITION PROCESS COMPETITION IS THE PREMIER EVENT FOR » SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY » SEND YOUR PRODUCT TO US

NEW ZEALAND SMALLGOODS PRODUCERS. Enter online OR on the enclosed entry During the week Monday 7 - Friday 11 form, provide the following: September send your freshest entries to us using an overnight courier of • name of the product(s) you wish to your choice, or utilise the free chilled And with good reason - the Enter now to have your made-in- enter (ensure this matches the name transport offered through Big Chill. competition consistently receives store and/or mince patties of the product on pack/in-store) Further information including address details etc will be provided with your • the category you believe the hundreds of entries from all over tasted and tested by the NZ’s best entry confirmation. All entries, except product belongs in (please refer Continental Ready-To-Eat, and Heat n’ the country, attracts significant culinary experts, and take advantage to the enclosed category guide to Eat, will be frozen until judging. media interest, and the public can’t of the increased sales opportunities determine the category your entry belongs in, or contact us if you get enough of the humble (and not and industry recognition, that are unsure). You will note some so humble) snag. Plus, for the first accompanies success in the categories have a naming right » JUDGING sponsor, this does NOT mean you are time the competition now includes a competition. required to use their products in your Category judging takes place in Auckland mince category – burger patties. entries, if you wouldn’t normally. over a five day period between Tuesday The competition is open to all 15 - Tuesday 22 September. Sausages • the cooking method e.g. pan fry, retailers who produce sausages and are judged in their uncooked state simmer by a technical judge, followed by an mince patties available at retail level • the casing they are produced in assessment of the cooked product by two in New Zealand. aesthetic judges. Marks are awarded for • the spice mix ingredients supplier visual appearance, technical composition and taste, texture and aroma. More • a list of the main flavour ingredients weighting will be placed on the taste, texture and aroma criteria. You can only enter a sausage once in the competition. i.e. you cannot enter the same sausage into multiple categories. Make sure you include your store name » FINAL JUDGING and contact details. Retail Meat New Zealand will be in contact to confirm your The top scoring sausage (gold medal entry has been received and if necessary, winner) in each category will progress advise you of any category changes. through to the final judging. All gold medal winning product will be mystery Early bird entries close Wednesday shopped between Tuesday 6 - Thursday 8 22 July, 2020; Standard entries close October. The final judging will be held in Wednesday 12 August, 2020. Auckland on Wednesday 14 October.

Phone 09 489 0879 or email [email protected] with any enquiries.

Winning the People’s Choice Award last year was huge for “us. We saw a massive increase in interest in all our products with queues out the door. The phone didn’t stop ringing with people from all over NZ wanting to get their hands on our Beef, Garden Herb & Garlic sausage. It was amazing! - Dom Nash. Avon’s Butchery ” CATEGORIES

» ALTO PACKAGING BEEF » BIG CHILL FLAVOURED » FLAVOURS OF THE WORLD » GOURMET CATEGORY CATEGORY CATEGORY This category has been broken into Standard fresh beef not ‘beef Standard fresh beef, pork or chicken Fresh and pre-cooked products that four categories as outlined. flavoured’. Cannot contain any other products flavoured with a sausage include flavours which have a strong major flavourings such as chilli, meal. Can contain other major link to a specific country or region, 1. Fresh and pre-cooked products cheese etc. flavourings. This category is intended excluding Europe. that include unique, unusual and/or For example: Old English Beef; Pure for the lower price end of the market. For example: Thai Chicken & premium flavour combinations and Beef For example: Beef & Herb Flavoured Lemongrass; ; Lebanese ingredients that do not constitute a Beef; Fijian Lamb Curry recognised style. » DUNNINGHAMS PORK » FLEXITARIAN OR CATEGORY MEAT-FREE CATEGORY » /ROUNDS » KIWI LABELS GOURMET BEEF Standard fresh pork not ‘pork Flexitarian or meat-free fresh and pre- CATEGORY CATEGORY flavoured’. Cannot contain any other cooked products. Flexitarian products Pre-cooked black pudding and For example: Beef & Red Wine; Beef major flavourings such as apple, should contain no more than 50% products presented in a round or & Stout; Beef, Pumpkin, Feta & Chive; fennel etc. lean meat. horseshoe shape, not including Beef, Marmite & Cheese For example: Old English Pork; Pure For example: Beef, Lentil and . Pork; Prime Pork Beetroot; Thai Bean; Meat Free For example: Black Pudding; White Pudding » CABERNET FOODS GOURMET » KERRY INGREDIENTS PORK CATEGORY » » For example: Pork & Blue Cheese; PRE-COOKED CATEGORY CONTINENTAL FRESH CASPAK TRADITIONAL Pork, Basil, Pear & Hemp Seed; Pork, Standard and flavoured pre-cooked. CATEGORY CATEGORY Chardonnay & French Herbs This category is intended for the Any recognised style of fresh Fresh beef, pork or lamb products. everyday market and includes pre- sausages with a European origin. Includes English styles, including cooked and BBQ style sausages. Can For example: Italian Casalinga; traditional course cut styles, AND » GOURMET POULTRY contain other major flavourings. Toulouse; fresh Chorizo; Hungarian; products that combine traditional CATEGORY For example: Cheese pre-cooked; flavours and ingredients. Can contain For example: Chicken & Bacon; Duck BBQ Beef major flavourings. & Orange For example: Cumberland; Lamb & » CONTINENTAL READY-TO- Mint; Pork & Leek; Beef, Herb & Garlic » HEAT N’ EAT CATEGORY EAT CATEGORY » GOURMET VARIETAL Standard and flavoured products Any recognised style of gourmet cooked in simmering water. Can » CATEGORY ready-to-eat, pre-cooked sausages MINCE CATEGORY - NEW For example: Venison & Red Wine; contain other major flavourings. with a European origin. This category FOR 2020! Lamb & Truffle; Sweet Bread & For example: Polony; ; is not intended for the pre-cooked/ Smoked Crayfish Frankfurter; Cocktail BBQ style sausages. BURGER PATTIES CATEGORY For example: cured/smoked Chorizo; Open category for fresh (and par- Hungarian Kolbasz; ; Italian cooked) beef, pork, lamb, venison Calabrese; Kransk or poultry based minced meat burger patties. Can contain major flavourings.

Must be sold at retail level for consumers to take home and cook themselves. PAYMENT MEDALS & AWARDS • Cheque: Make payable to ‘Retail Meat New Zealand’

» MEDALS » AWARD PRESENTATION • Direct Credit: Bank Account Number: 02 1223 0852977 00 A gold, silver and bronze medal The Great New Zealand Sausage (please place your business name and GNZSC in the reference if you are paying will be awarded to the top three Competition award presentation this way) scoring products in each category. will take place on Thursday 29 A highly commended certificate will October in Auckland. This year Invoice: If you would prefer to be invoiced for your entry please indicate on the entry be provided to those entrants whose the awards dinner will be held in form in the check box provided. entries score within the top five conjuction with the Alto Young percent in it’s category. Butcher, ANZCO Foods Butcher Early bird entries close Wednesday 22 July, 2020; Standard entries close Wednesday Apprentice & Pure South Master 12 August, 2020. Payment must be made before Friday 4 September, 2020 for entries Butcher of the Year Competition to be eligible for judging. If the entry fee is not paid in full on or before this date Retail » SUPREME AWARD grand final. We encourage all entrants Meat New Zealand reserve the right to remove the entry (entries) from the judging The gold medal winning products will and wider industry to attend as we process. If you are unable to send your entries please advise Retail Meat New Zealand progress through to the final judging announce the competition winners no later than Friday 4 September, 2020. where the Supreme Award winner will and celebrate the smallgoods, and be found. wider retail meat industry. Medallists will receive a complimentary ticket. Further details will be available in due » PEOPLE’S CHOICE course. CONDITIONS OF ENTRY The top six scoring products (not including Burger Patties), as 1. Entries must be in writing on the official 7. The organisers and mystery shoppers will determined by the Supreme Award entry form or online via the official website: take all reasonable care with the entries at rmnz.co.nz. Photocopies are acceptable. the time of purchase and once uplifted, but judging, will progress through to the You may enter as many products in as many will not be liable for claims from entrants if People’s Choice judging. categories as you wish. their product is lost, damaged, deteriorated 2. All products must meet legal requirements or arrives late. for the manufacture of sausages, and comply 8. The event organisers will have the final say with the Australian and New Zealand Food over which category the entry falls into and Standards Code and Fair Trading Act. reserve the right to re-classify any entry 3. All products must be currently, and at the submitted. time of the contest, available to consumers 9. The competition judges reserve the right not via your own or a retail business outlet. to award a prize in any category. The consumer must be able to take the 10. The decision of the judging panel is final COST TO ENTER product away and cook it (where applicable) and no discussion or correspondence will be themselves. The organisers reserve the right entered into. to carry out random validation checks at any time prior to or during the competition. 11. Medal winners wishing to use the Great New » RETAIL MEAT NEW ZEALAND » NON-MEMBERS: Zealand Sausage Competition branding 4. Retail Meat New Zealand retains the right material are required to comply with MEMBERS: to share entry details (not including contact the branding criteria established by the EARLY BIRD, entries received by information) with sponsors and other competition organisers. Random audits can involved parties. 5pm, Wednesday 22 July be undertaken at any time following the EARLY BIRD, entries received by 5. The entrant is responsible for the packaging competition to ensure compliance with the 5pm, Wednesday 22 July $453 + gst for your first entry and sending of the products for category branding criteria. (includes 12-month RMNZ judging. Products must arrive with Retail $80 + gst per entry 12. The organisers reserve the right to refuse membership), Meat New Zealand between Monday 7 any entry. $80 + gst per entry for September, 9am and Friday 11 September, 13. All entry fees must be paid prior to judging. STANDARD, entries received after any subsequent entries 5pm. Retail Meat New Zealand takes no responsibility for products that arrive outside If the entry fee is not paid in full, on or before Wednesday 22 July, and by 5pm, of these dates and times, or products that Friday 4 September, 2020 the organisers Wednesday 12 August STANDARD, entries received after arrive in poor condition. It is the entrants’ reserve the right to remove the entry from Wednesday 22 July, and by 5pm, responsibility to package and send the the judging process. $95 + gst per entry Wednesday 12 August products in a way conducive to maintaining 14. All participants agree by entry into this quality and freshness. If the product arrives in competition to accept these rules and $468 + gst for your first entry poor condition, every reasonable attempt will conditions, and participate in promoting and (includes 12-month RMNZ be made to obtain replacement product(s) at reporting the competition, and to the use of membership), $95 + gst per entry for the entrants’ expense. If this is not possible personal information. no refund will be offered. Payment must be made in full on or any subsequent entries 15. The information and notes contained in this before Friday 4 September, 2020 for 6. If an entrant is unable, for whatever reason, brochure are to be read with and form part to send their entries for category judging, of the conditions of entry. entries to be eligible for judging. during the week specified above please advise Retail Meat New Zealand no later than Friday 4 September, 2020. Retail Meat New Zealand is only liable to refund 50% of the entry fees. with thanks to our sponsors

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