Innovative Australian food and beverage company Preshafood Limited has beaten entries from beverage giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, at the prestigious international Beverage Innovation Awards held at Drinktec in Germany overnight. Drinktec is the premier event showcasing global innovations in beverage and liquid food technology and the Beverage Innovation Awards are the Oscars equivalent for the beverage industry.

Preshafood has taken out first prize in the 'Best New Juice or Juice Drink' and the overall award across the 24 award categories 'Best New Beverage Concept'. The Company's Preshafruit juice range was selected as the best product from over 340 entries from 40 countries. Preshafood was also a finalist in the 'Best Newcomer Brand or Business'. In winning these awards, Preshafood has further cemented Preshafruit's position as a significant player in the highly competitive and developed non-alcoholic beverages industry.

A new $1.4 million processing facility in Melbourne’s west will create jobs and help support Victoria’s fruit industry, Premier John Brumby said today. “This new processing facility is the first of its kind in Australia and has already created 20 direct full and part-time jobs, as well as supporting our local growers and orchards,” Mr Brumby said

Preshafruit Fruit Coulis and Juices are ideal for many and various food service solutions and can be packaged in a format to suit any requirement from 500gm pouch up to 10kg or larger pack sizes.

We love apples. Because Preshafruit® juices are pressurised cold the gentleness of our process enables the taste unique to each apple variety to be captured in our juice. Apple varieties and blends with pear and lemon plus a stunning Valencia Orange are the first varieties in the range. Look out for more great juices to be released shortly.