A Preston-based supermarket is celebrating a raft of awards that put their products firmly among the best in the world.

Booths, which has supermarkets across the North and its HQ in Longridge, has won 42 medals at the International Cheese & Dairy Awards at Bingley Hall, Staffordshire, including 16 Gold, 14 Silver and 12 Bronze medals. 

Among the 16-gold medal winning cheese were Booths brand lines of Crumbly Lancashire, Cheddar, Organic Stilton, Grana Padano and sliced Edam with Booths Reblochon and Soft White Goat’s Cheese also taking Gold medals.

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Alan Kirby, cheese buyer at Booths, said, “We’re absolutely delighted with our Booths wins at the International Cheese and Dairy Awards.  This is a real credit to the skill and dedication of our cheesemakers, both in our Northern heartland and further afield.

“We’re very proud of our cheese counters here at Booths, and the colleagues who look after them.   Our colleagues are trained to share product knowledge, specialist training and the very best advice to customers.

“We’re very proud of our cheese counters here at Booths, and the colleagues who look after them.   Our colleagues are trained in our very own “Cheese Academy” which shares product knowledge and specialist training to share the very best advice to customers.   

“We specialise in cheese that has a story, whether it’s Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire, still made with the equipment used by Graham Kirkham’s grandmother, or Wensleydale made with raw milk for a rounder flavour as it once was in the farmhouses of the Dales. Our 100-strong range also incorporates both British and European cheeses that are best in class.”

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