Favorite Food & Drinks is an effective business tool, a communication platform for meeting players from all areas of the Ukrainian food retail industry: craft, industrial producers, importers and representatives of retail chains, GoReCa, which unites the community of food professionals and promotes exemplary, high-quality, tasty and safe food products.
Favorite Food & Drinks gives experts the opportunity to become tasters and join the professional community and take advantage of a range of opportunities:
- learn about new products that are planned to be launched on the market;
- improve tasting skills;
- strengthen your own credibility as an industry expert;
- to declare the company as one that follows the emergence of new products on the market;
- to be the first to select and select quality and tasty products and drinks to be introduced into the range without influence from the supplier.
Members of the professional tasting panel is updated at each competition and is formed from highly qualified specialists: heads of quality departments, own brands and own production, commercial departments in retail, petrol stations, GoReK, as well as representatives of industry associations and specialised universities.
Who is part of the tasting panel
Highly qualified managers and specialists from food quality and safety services, own brands, own production, commercial departments of chain retailers, HoReCa, technologists from trading and manufacturing companies, and industry associations.
Independent experts of the tasting committee conduct blind assessment of organoleptic characteristics of food products in all product categories (nominations) of food products.
Independent and impartial tasters
Larisa Safonova
Lead engineer
NTV SE Ukrmetrteststandard
Larisa Akulova
Head of Product Quality Control Department
ATB-Market
Anna Soletska
Head of the Sensory Analysis Laboratory
MHP Culinary Centre
Dalia Zavyatskienė
Director of the in-house production department
NOVUS
Konstantin Grubich
Quality expert, journalist, TV presenter, author of columns
"Know Consume" "Breakfast with 1+1"
Alyona Revenko
Chief technologist
Esarom Ukraine
Olga Gulenko
Leading specialist in commodity market research
The state operator of the rear
Tatiana Shapoval
Head of culinary production
NOVUS
Natalia Oleksienko
Head of the External Audit Division of the Quality Department, PhD, Associate Professor
"Silpo-Food
Anatolii Statsenko
Chief technologist
LASKA
Igor Svidersky
Head of the technical expertise department
Fozzy Group
Alexey Povtoreyko
Chef, co-owner
Fozzy Group
Olga Krasnovska
Head of the Standardisation Division of the Quality Management Department
ATB-Market
Andriy Chechel
Head of Trade Marketing Department
BRSM-NAFTA petrol station, GoodMarket
Lyudmila Chornovil
Chief technologist of bakery production
NOVUS
Olga Balozian
Director of Development, SMO
Umaks Market
Yevhen Vorozhko
commercial director
AB InBev Efes Ukraine
Inna Piyak
technologist
Epicentre K
Anastasia Kovbasa
Leading Specialist of the External Audit Division of the Quality Department
Fozzy Group
Tatiana Pakulova
expert in R&D in the dairy industry
Agunya, Chudo, Slovyanochka
Nadezhda Mashtalir
Quality specialist in the field of automotive materials
Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine
Yuriy Glushko
Winner of the Best Sommelier of Ukraine competition in 2007
Member of the Sommelier Association of Ukraine.
Nadezhda Pidlisna
Director of the Quality Department
EcoMarket
Natalia Pashova
Technologist of the catering department
Epicentre K
Yuriy Butsko
chief auditor
Epicentre K
Nadezhda Terekh
Food quality and safety specialist
PE "Network - Service Lviv", Blyzenko
Bohdan Leonov
Director of Development of a holding of companies
AlmaVeko
Olga Gulenko
Project manager for the organisation of technical processes. Process control department
FORA
Uliana Skrypka
Food Category Management Manager
FORA
Maria Stepaniuk
Head of the HACCP department
ECO MARKET
Yulia Golubkova
acting commercial director
AUCHAN UKRAINE
Yulia Petrenko
Quality specialist for private labels
Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine
Pavlo Chernetskyi
Head of the Food Department
ROZETKA
Mikhail Grudnitsky
Project manager of in-house production
KLO
Maria Paska
Head of Technology and Innovation for HoReCa at Horeca School, Professor, Head of the Department of GRB
LSUFK named after I. Bobersky
Mariana Popiuk
Head of the production department
Taistra Group
Dmitry Makarov
Chief Commercial Officer
KLO
Daria Kolenko
Director of Commercial Development, specialist in sensory analysis of meat products
Belkozin Ukraine
Larysa Bal-Prylipko
Dean of the Faculty of Food Technologies and Quality Management of Agricultural Products
NUBiP
Alexey Durov
Sommelier, brand ambassador, expert in the world of wine and alcohol
Association of Sommeliers of Ukraine
Vladimir Baghdasaryan
Head of meat production
Velmart
Andrey Vasiliev
Bronze medalist of the World Cup in 2023 in Athens (Greece). Two-time champion of Ukraine in 2019, 2023, Judge of the Ukrainian Coffee Championships, Co-owner
DAM COFFEE ROASTERS
Natalia Maletska
Procurement Director of a company operating under the
KLO
Kateryna Krokhmalnaya
Head of in-house production
Orange Prime
Alexey Fedorovsky
Two-time winner of coffee championships, Co-owner
3 Champs Roastery
Iryna Brytska
Head of Customer Experience at the company
KLO
Elena Zhukova
Executive Director, Deputy Head of the Specialised Tasting Commission
All-Ukrainian Association of Bakers
Daria Doroshkevich
Food blogger Treska
Treska
Christina Terloo
Commercial
director of networks
speciality stores
Gradus, The Milkmaid
Maxim Yakimenko
Category manager for beverages, retail chain
CIRCLE
Konstantin Mostika
Specialist in quality of imported goods
Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine
Yulia Dombrovska
Head of the quality department
Auchan Ukraine
Victoria Ruban
Head of the FRESH department
CIRCLE
Yulia Koran
Head of Marketing Department
Galicia-Trade
Ekaterina Zatornitskaya
CEO ICS "Vistarcom" SRL
Velmart
Green Hills Market
Sergey Cherny
Head of the CTM department
VARUS
Kateryna Dodonova-Sudyina
Head of the technology department
Döhler Ukraine
Andriy Kharytonenko
Director of in-house production
Darnel
Anna Tsilnytska
Product innovation specialist
Carlsberg Ukraine
Igor Bragin
President
Association of Chefs of Ukraine
Victoria Horova
Deputy Executive Director
UPG filling station network
Iryna Bondarchuk
Product manager for food products
Rozetka
Konstantin Zhuk
Quality Assurance Manager
METRO
Anna Zhurba
Own Brand Sourcing Specialist
METRO
