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FoodBev Media is delighted to announce the winners of this year's highly anticipated World Coffee Innovation Awards, a celebration of forward thinking and excellence within the coffee industry. This event, which features revolutionary ideas, outstanding products, technological advancements and sustainable business practices, has become a trademark of innovation in the global coffee community.
The winners of this year's award were announced at the Caffe Culture Show in the incredible Business Design Centre, the trade event that spotlights the UK speciality coffee and café bar market. As we celebrate the industry breakers who have elevated the coffee experience, FoodBev would like to congratulate all winners, finalists and commended companies.
As well as the award ceremony, the World Coffee Innovation Awards featured at Caffé Culture with an exceptional showcase stand, exhibiting the amazing entrants from past and present for attendees to experience.
Visitors were queuing up to get their hands on The Good Cup, try the iced strawberry matcha from Mafia Matcha alongside the incredible flavours courtesy of Monin and coffee-flavoured New Forest Shortbread. We also had an incredible display of products from multi-award-winning COCCOLA and Mindfuel, as well as exhibitions of the newest releases from Fellow and Vitclear.
Dan Bunt, marketing director of FoodBev Media, presented the awards ceremony at the Caffè Insights stage at 4 pm (BST) earlier today. Dan commented:
"2025 hallmarks another remarkable year for the World Coffee Innovation Awards. The judges and I continue to be impressed by the level of advancement”
Find the final positions of every shortlisted entry below:
FINALISTS
Automatic coffee machine
Fellow – Series 1 Espresso Machine
Barista milk
Edenesque – Barista Blend Pistachio Milk
PT Lautan Natural Krimerindo – Ellenka Barista Series Coconut Milk
Coffee capsule/pod
Qinhu Atomic Biotechnology (Jiangsu) Co. - Zhi Xiao Lu · Classic Espresso Essence
Coffee-flavoured food product
New Forest Shortbread - Coffee flavoured New Forest Shortbread
Cold Brew product
GoodBrew - GoodBrew GoodGut Latte
Functional coffee
High Level Coffee - French Roast CBD Coffee
Beforeyouspeak – Performance Coffee
Seaguth Elixirs - Sunrise Vanilla Latte
Low/no Caffeine product
Dualit - Dualit Half Caffeine Coffee Pods
Ready-to-drink product
Mindfuelbev Ltd - Mindfuel Flow® stress & mood
Yili Group - ZhenNong Thick Milk
Yili Group - Milk Talk coffee latte
Packaging innovation
Owens Coffee - Owens Organic Coffee
Technology innovation
Kefircoffee Ltd - Kefircoffee® – The World’s First-to-Market Coffee Technology
JBT Marel - SuperStatic Technology for Static and Agitating Retorts
Branding/packaging design
Boardio - Paperboard Canister for Mother Parkers and Target
WINNERS
Automatic coffee machine
Eversys – Legacy+ Machine
Barista milk
Sky Barn – +Adaptogens Oat Milk
Barista tool/ equipment
SPARKFE INTERNATIONAL - Portable Electric Coffee Grinder
Coffee capsule/pod
DAYS – DAYS Espresso Capsules Trio
Coffee-flavoured food product
SugarBean Candy - Coffee Bean Brûlée | Double Shot
Cold Brew product
Unconform - Unconform Cold Brew Flat White
Coffee dilutable product
Lost Sheep Coffee - Lost Sheep Espresso Coffee Concentrate
Functional coffee
Kefircoffee Ltd - Kefircoffee® – The World’s First Full-Coffee Functional Beverage
Low/no Caffeine product
Mindfuelbev Ltd - Mindfuel Flow® focus & clarity
Manual coffee machine
Dualit - Dualit Espressivo Pro Coffee Machine
Ready-to-drink product
GoodBrew - GoodBrew Coconut Latte
Brewing innovation
SPARKFE INTERNATIONAL COMPANY - SPARKFE Portable Electric Grind & Hand-Pour Coffee All-In-One
Flavour innovation
COCCOLA – COCCOLA
Packaging innovation
Parkside Flexibles - Recoflex™ Coffee Portfolio
Roasting innovation
BeanGo Cube - Smart Home Coffee Roaster
Technology innovation
Hard Beans – Hardtap
Branding/packaging design
Coffee Foundation - Coffee Foundation Call Us Crazy!
Coffee shop concept
Cartisan Carts – The Richmond
Marketing/social media campaign
GoodBrew - Get your GoodBrew and go 🏃♀️ social video
New start-up business
COCCOLA
Speciality coffee roaster
Boxx Coffee Roasters - Boxx Coffee Roasters
Sustainability Initiative
Parkside Flexibles - Recoflex™ Coffee Portfolio

Event partner: Caffe Culture Show
Caffè Culture Show is the UK’s leading trade event for the speciality coffee and thriving café bar market.
Hosted at London’s iconic Business Design Centre, the show welcomes 3,500+ coffee and hospitality professionals who are all looking to source the latest innovative products and services whilst being inspired by a unique and educational programme of talks, demos and interactive features. FoodBev Awards has taken the World Coffee Innovation Awards to the next level and presented shortlisted companies in our dedicated World Coffee Innovation Awards feature area. This provided a physical platform to showcase, network and celebrate their innovations.

About FoodBev Awards
FoodBev Media awards schemes have been running for more than 20 years and are now recognised as the most credible and respected awards schemes to influence the international food and beverage industry.
For more information about our selection of awards programmes, please visit foodbevawards.com or email awards@foodbev.com