{"id":759924,"date":"2026-02-12T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/759924\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:20:15","slug":"portsoy-ice-cream-shop-successful-in-the-scotland-prestige-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/759924\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsoy Ice Cream shop successful in the Scotland Prestige Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A popular ice cream shop has been successful in a prestigious awards programme.<\/p>\n<p>Portsoy Ice Cream was named Scotland\u2019s Artisan Ice Cream Shop of the Year in the <a href=\"https:\/\/prestigeawards.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prestige Awards.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 748 960\" alt=\"Portsoy Ice cream was successful in the Scotland Prestige Awards.\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"SIYTR94BSCORWW2E7031.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.78\"\/>Portsoy Ice cream was successful in the Scotland Prestige Awards.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post the shop said: \u201cIt was based on customer reviews, quality of ice cream and our service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo thank you all for your support and fabulous reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlex would like to thank all the staff that made this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Prestige Awards recognise small and medium-sized businesses that have proven to be the best in their market over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>All shortlisted companies put forward are asked to support their nomination with evidence of their work.<\/p>\n<p>This includes positive feedback from their clients (including reviews), information on previous accreditation and recognition, as well as highlighting the most outstanding parts of their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The judging panel base their decisions upon areas such as service excellence, quality of the product\/service provided, innovative practices, value, ethical or sustainable methods of working, as well as consistency in performance.<\/p>\n<p>The winners selected are those who can best demonstrate their strengths in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>Founder and CEO of the Prestige Awards Osmaan Mahmood said: \u201cAlthough small businesses may not be able to compete with multinational companies on their size and scale, there is a personalised service-driven focus that is often void from large organisations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Do you want to respond to this article? If so, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grampianonline.co.uk\/response\/?popform=true&amp;Url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.grampianonline.co.uk%2fnews%2fsweet-success-for-ice-cream-shop-in-prestigious-awards-427133%2f&amp;Title=Portsoy+Ice+Cream+shop+successful+in+the+Scotland+Prestige+Awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>here<\/b><\/a> to submit your thoughts and they may be published in print.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular ice cream shop has been successful in a prestigious awards programme. Portsoy Ice Cream was named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[43993,748,51,5554,29404,4884,1501,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-759924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-banff-news","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-divert-me","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116058811663097165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}