Apply For iHalal Awards
The International Award To Recognize Organisations That Are Champions In Halal, Ethical, Socially Responsible & Sustainable Businesses In The Global Halal Industry!
Awarded Under The Patronage Of
H.E. Mr. Ihsan ÖVÜT
Secretary General of SMIIC
(Standards and Metrology Institute For Islamic Countries)
the standardization body of the OIC (Organisation Of Islamic Cooperation).
Best Halal Consumer Brand
Name: Al Islami Foods
Country: UAE
Introduction: The Al Islami Foods journey began in 1970. Known as the Dubai Co-operative Society at the time; what started out as a small grocery shop, quickly grew into the larger vision of its founder, Haj Saeed Lootah. The second shop which was opened in Karama, was closer to a modern-day supermarket, and was succeeded by the opening of more stores across Khalid bin Waleed Road, Defense Roundabout and Satwa. The breakthrough which Mr. Lootah and his team had been waiting for, came in 1979 with the opening of a hypermarket in Mirdif, which would serve as a model for all future outlets. In 2017, Al Islami Foods has inaugurated the largest food manufacturing factory for the brand. Spread across 10,000 square meters, it is the most modern, complementing the existing logistics facility in Dubai Investment Park, expected to increase the production capacity by 150% reaching 17,000 Mt per year. Today, Al Islami Foods is the premium halal food company in the UAE, and one of the biggest food distributors in the region. Quality and transparency is the foundation upon which our brand is based and we enjoy the unequivocal trust of mothers, foodies, cooking enthusiasts who wish to provide nutritious and safe halal foods to their children and families.
Halal Food & Beverages
Best Halal Packed Food Product
Name: Saffron Road
Country: USA
Introduction: Founded by Mr. Adnan Durrani, Saffron Road's global journey began with a core belief that traditionally pure foods can be a safe medium to compassionately inspire and inclusively connect diverse cultures together. Regardless of language, religion, or culture, everyone loves authentically delicious, wholesome foods. Saffron Road celebrates fundamental commonality as inspired in World Cuisines, which can bridge many of humanity's widest of divides.
Halal Packed Food
Best Halal Beverages Product
Name: Mecca Cola
Country: France / Hong Kong
Introduction: Mecca Cola brand started out in a tiny,16-square-meter room in Saint-Denis (in the northeast suburbs of Paris) under the stairs at the back of a shopping mall. Mecca-Cola has traveled around the world in all the languages and dialects of the human race. This is unheard of in the history of the launch of a product or a brand.
Halal Beverages
Best Halal Cosmetics Product
Name: Amara Cosmetics
Country: USA
Introduction: Amara Cosmetics is the first complete Halal-certified cosmetics line in North America. Established in 2010 in Los Angeles, California with a mission to provide Muslim women a safe, clean products that abides by Islamic teaching. Halal is a common term in the Muslim community, however it is used by most when referring to food, making it easy to overlook the other places in which the word is still applicable. In actuality, "Halal isn't limited to what is consumed as food but also applies to what is put on our skin". Nearly all the brands of cosmetics in the market today utilize materials (alcohol, animal fatty acids, and animal gelatin) that are haram by Islamic law and in choosing to use them, women are inadvertently absorbing through skin and consuming during the act of eating and drinking, these religiously condemned substances.
Halal Cosmetics
Best Halal Personal Care & Hygiene Brand
Name: Safi by Wipro Unza
Country: Malaysia
Introduction: To attain a position of selective prominence in the household and personal care markets across Asia as a marketer of high quality and innovative brands, which enhance the lifestyle of our consumers, provide a good return on investment for our shareholders and allow our employees to realise their personal ambitions. WIPRO UNZA, part of Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting Group, is amongst South East Asia's leading manufacturer and marketers of personal care products, bringing Asian focused brands to millions of Asian consumers.
Halal Personal Care & Hygiene
Best Halal Supplements
Name: Noor Vitamins
Country: USA
Introduction: NoorVitamins™, a division of Noor Pharmaceuticals, is managed by doctors and scientists who are committed to producing the most natural pharmaceutically manufactured vitamins of the highest quality. We ensure our products meet the most stringent standards by producing them in independently certified FDA facilities. All of our products are triple certified and meet FDA Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and scientific standards.
Halal Supplements
Best Modest Fashion Brand
Name: AnnaHariri
Country: UAE
Introduction: Annah Hariri Fashions Establishment is offering an extended range of MODEST clothing to women: casual maxi dresses and skirts, office style clothing, evening gowns and wedding dresses, as well as abayas and clothes for performing prayers and religious duties. Founded by a western expat lady in Dubai in 2012, the brand now has its own atelier providing high-end quality to its clients in UAE, Europe, America, Australia, South Africa and Asia Pacific region. Visit Annah Hariri Fashions on-line
Modest Fashion
Best Halal Media Service
Name: Muslim Kids TV
Country: Canada
Introduction: A 100% halaal interactive, community-driven platform for learning and development through videos, games, ebooks and more!
Halal Media
Most Creative Marketing Campaign
Name: Saffron Road
Country: USA
Introduction: Founded by Mr. Adnan Durrani, Saffron Road's global journey began with a core belief that traditionally pure foods can be a safe medium to compassionately inspire and inclusively connect diverse cultures together. Regardless of language, religion, or culture, everyone loves authentically delicious, wholesome foods. Saffron Road celebrates fundamental commonality as inspired in World Cuisines, which can bridge many of humanity's widest of divides.
Marketing Campaign
Best Islamic Financial Service or Product
Name: LaunchGood
Country: USA
Introduction: Started in 2013 with a belief that Muslims have incredible values to share with the world. Launch Good is crowdfunding platform which as of November 2020 has Funded $172,172,315 with 20,105 Campaigns in 144 Countries with 974,339 Users.
Islamic Finance
Best Islamic Financial Service or Product
Name: Ethis Crowd
Country: Malaysia
Introduction: Ethis Crowd has a global community of 21,000 ethical members from 59 countries who provide funding for Social Housing development projects in Emerging Indonesia. Every home they build helps a family break out of poverty. Ethis Crowd our branches and representative offices in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Dubai.
Islamic Finance
Best Islamic Financial Service or Product
Name: Kuwait Finance House
Country: Kuwait
Introduction: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) is considered a pioneer in the Islamic banking phenomenon known as "Islamic Finance" or "Sharia'a" compliant banking. Kuwait Finance House (KFH) is the first Islamic bank established in 1977 in the State of Kuwait and today it's one of the foremost Islamic financial institutions in the world.
Islamic Financial
Best Innovation In Halal Industry
Name: JAKIM
Country: Malaysia
Introduction: As the authority responsible for matters related to Islam in the country, JAKIM through the Halal Management Division, is the main agency that manages the certification and enforcement of halal status, by coordinating, issuing and monitoring Halal Certification and enforcing all halal-related regulations in Malaysia. Elements of innovation consist of a holistic approach that are able to create a user friendly quality system, consisting of manpower, process, guidelines and lab analysis backed up by the country's Acts, laws and regulation to uphold consumers' rights for informed choice, credible and Halal. This provides opportunities of Halal products to be produced by Muslims and non-Muslims Manufacturers alike, thus creating numerous opportunities that impact Halal value chain with positive global trade opportunities locally and worldwide. Element of innovations consist of technology that improve process, safety, traceability, quality, and ease, for manufacturers applying for Halal certification, through online registration, declarations of ingredients in databases, and apps, meant to provide ease of verification among consumers, such as MYeHALAL system for halal application, Verify Halal and Smart Halal for halal directory. Halal management system in Malaysia potrays a strong collaboration among government agencies from specific related fields in Syariah, science, technology, standards and management such as Ministry of Health, Department of Chemistry, Department of Standards Malaysia and Halal Industry Development Corporation (HDC) to support JAKIM's initiative to sustain the quality and status of Halal products and services.
Best Innovation
Best Social Impact Initiative
Name: International Academy For Leadership & Development.
Country: Turkey
Introduction: International Academy For Leadership & Development is a Turkish non-governmental organization based in Istanbul. It has made many contracts and partnerships with universities, institutions and centers dealing with education and development programs by creating a structure of expertise through advanced rehabilitation, training and development programs and by by making people acquire leadership in society and making them capable of providing development in all sectors of the society. The Academy stands out with creating individuals of both sexes and young people who have qualified talents with its programs. At this point, the Academy, dealing with deterritorialized, immigrant, indigent and poor young people who have leadership and knowledge skills and psychological, personal and behavioural characteristics, starting from the exploration stage, goes up to providing education and rehabilitation opportunities, creating knowledge, skill and behaviour structure, providing experience and even creating network by assgining the power acquired. On the other hand, in the field of sustainable performance and continuity skill, by investigating the actual status of institutions, the obstacles they face and their effects on creating the system and structures of institutions, drawing their plans, development of their resources, the performance evaluation of the subject of development of their management and leadership mechanisms, tries to create talents for nongovernmental organizations (NGOS).
Best Social Impact
Outstanding Personal Achievement In The Halal Industry
Name: Prof. Mariam Abdul Latif
Country: Malaysia
Introduction: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hajjah Mariam is a lecturer at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. She lectures Nutrition Policies, Food Regulations and Halal Food Standards, Certification and Production. Prior to university life she served two ministries, Ministry of Agriculture (15 years) and Ministry of Health (17 years). She was first introduced to Halal food when She was involved with the Codex Alimentarius Commission elaborating the draft document on General Guidelines for Use of the Term Halal in 1995. She was then the Codex Contact Point for Malaysia at the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) and was also the Secretary to the National Codex Committee for Malaysia and so was directly involved with the revision of the Codex Draft Guidelines for Use of the Term Halal. She was involved directly with the establishment of the guidelines until its adoption at the Commission in 1997. She remember there was some debates at the Codex Executive Committee prior to the Commission meeting on the reservation on the adoption of the draft guidelines but was defended by Dato' Dr. Wan Mahmud who was heading the delegation for the region, Codex Coordinating Committee for Asia. She established the office for Codex Contact Point Malaysia under the MOH in 1996. She was the country Liaison Officer, the Chief Secretariat for the National Codex Committee and the Codex Regional Representative for Asia from 1996 - 1998. She was a Consultant to Codex Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy from Jan-July 2001 and February 2005. During her consultancy at FAO in Rome, She was assigned to give a lecture on the work of Codex and halal guidelines at the Codex Regional Workshop of the Far East at Teheran, Iran in March 2001. That was her first experience in presenting a paper at the international arena followed with a presentation in Bangkok, Thailand, on the halal guidelines.
Personal Achievement
Outstanding Personal Achievement In The Halal Industry
Name: Prof. Irwandi Jaswir
Country: Indonesia
Introduction: For many years, Prof. Dr. Irwandi Jaswir has been known as a "Halal" Scientist. He contributes to the Muslim Ummah and serves to Islam through his tireless and never-ending studies on the scientific halal-related issues and return the findings back to the Community through research publications, books, book chapters, halal-related training, education, community services, etc. He believes "Halal Science", which includes halal materials as alternative for non halal materials and ingredients, halal authentications, development of rapid method for non-halal contamination, halal food and cosmetics, development of halal standard, etc, will not only the key element to protect the Muslims from consuming modern consumer products which are much more complex and very prone to non-halal contamination, but also the important component required to build the halal industry that can contribute to economy of Muslim Ummah. The market of halal industry nowadays is expected to be USD 3.0 trillion, unfortunately Muslims do not play their important roles and do not enjoy the huge market yet. To date, Irwandi has chalked up a remarkable achievement in research which include: more than 190 scientific papers published in reputable international journals; contributed to 35 book-chapters; presented more than 250 research papers in international conferences – including keynote address and invited lectures; written more than 30 non-refereed and mass-media scientific articles. His dedication to research has enabled him to file 6 patents under his name, and his outstanding achievement is recognised both locally and internationally bagging more 50 scientific awards, including the King Faisal International Prize 2018.
Personal Achievement