Turkish honey is saturated with awards in the international arena!
Türkiye’s honey producers have achieved a great success at the London Honey Awards, which provides the opportunity to offer reliable and high quality honey to consumers while objectively measuring the product quality of the competitors with the evaluation made by sensory analysis method.
The London Honey Awards, one of the most prestigious honey competitions in the world, held in London, the capital of England, on 19-20 May 2024, made a great impact around the world this year. Honey producers from Türkiye successfully represented the country by participating in the competition in the quality category.
The award ceremony held in Istanbul reinforced Türkiye’s determination and success in becoming a global brand in honey production and was a great source of morale and motivation for the producers.
“Good Beekeeping and Sustainable Beekeeping are supported”
Emre Yıldırım, General Coordinator of Apimaye, which hosted the ceremony, said that Türkiye’s achievements at the London Honey Awards have once again demonstrated how advanced the country is in the beekeeping sector.
“The various innovation awards we have won within the scope of TÜBİTAK-supported projects and the support we give to ‘Good Beekeeping’ and ‘Sustainable Beekeeping’ practices are an important indicator of our contributions to the beekeeping sector as APİMAYE. We are proud to host such prestigious organisations. Such events are of great importance in order to promote both innovations and good practices in the sector,” Yıldırım said.
Turkish Brands shining at the London Honey Awards…
Producers who successfully represented Türkiye at the London Honey Awards were highly appreciated in the international arena with their quality and innovative approaches. The brands that stand out both with the quality of their products and with their sustainable and efficient production methods in the beekeeping sector and are the source of pride for Türkiye with the awards they received are as follows:
Platinum Award…
- Artay-Bir – Ibrahim Kahya
Gold Award…
- Akosman Beekeeping – Muhammet Akosman
- Anavarza Flower Honey – Anavarza Honey
- Bee Doctor – Mustafa Naci Yenal
- Aselzade – Hakan Habiboglu & Görkem Forest Products
- Baldudak VIP – Müstecip Peçe
- Balıkesir Pine Honey, Balıkesir Flower Honey and Balıkesir Oak Honey – Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality
- Bee Myosotis – Ishak Yılmaz
- Egmin – Erkan Ataş
- Silver Honey – Sinan Albayrak
- Kaldera and Kaldera Organic – Betav Honey and Beekeeping
- Kozan Mezla Honey – Kozan Chamber of Commerce & Mustafa Kandemir
- Olf-Olifeno – Sabri Göktas
- Polonezkoy Beekeeping – Kemal Sayal & Polonergiz Beekeeping
- Senli Bingol Honey – Tugay Şenli
- Yörükçayır – Murat Çay
Silver Award…
- Arisafi – Hüseyin Koç
- Dizdar – Tarık Dizdar
- Terra D’arista – Uğur Şen & Adler Tourism and Agriculture