We Have renamed the competition To the USI cheese Competition
Congratulations to all of our past Winners!
Wondering if you should submit?
We’ve got a few reasons why you shouldn’t sit this one out…
This is an opportunity for you to place your product in front of real, working industry trade buyers, in one of the biggest cheese markets in the world. Plus, we're the only International Cheese Competition where all the judges are real trade buyers, judging your product by its category and actual price. These buyers represent some of the top importers, distributors, retailers, and restaurants in the United States.
Established cheese producers — this is your chance to re-connect and/or be re-discovered by the entire cheese buying community, in a true and equitable blind tasting by real trade buyers.
This competition allows international producers to be blind tasted by some of the top buyers in the US Market. Our buyers are always looking for new and interesting products to bring to the market. It is open to all commercially producers. You do not have to be sold in the United States or New York to submit.
We work closely and consistently with our marketing and media sponsors to distribute the competition results to both the trade and the consumer. All the winners will be listed here on our website, highlighted and easily searchable by category. Top winners will be showcased on our Cheese Professor website.
Winners receive a physical 2" medal, digital image of the medal and numberic score. Winners will be listed on our website and showcased on the Cheese Professor and through our media partnerships. This is a great opportunity to showcase and display your wins for 2021 at trade shows and your sales marketing channels.
Winners receive free use of the medal image and score to be used in all of their marketing materials including on website, POS sell sheets, banners etc.... Winners will have the option of purchasing our authorized stickers and or medal image license on products and packaging.
Top winners from the competition (and all our other competitions) will be showcased at multiple tradeshows, both online and in-person. In addition, winners are featured in articles on our companion lifestyle blog, the Cheese Professor, as well as across our social channels, other trade and publication magazines, and websites.