The five-year-old NQA of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) has given these local manufacturers a "competitive edge" and "enhances the recognition of Jamaican products in the local market".
Jennifer Walker, acting senior director of the National Council on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET), said, "We serve the public and we are happy to know that what we do has the mark of quality on it.
"We feel very good that we have made some impact on our process," she said, outlining that the organisation which copped two of the five sectional prizes - the special award from the Management Institute for National Development and the national award for excellence in service - had been trying for years to build its quality profile.
'Ideal thing'
Walker, while acknowledging that NCTVET does training in quality improvement and management, said, "Quality management system is what we want to be the ideal thing.
"We will continue to give the quality service in terms of producing the company standard introduced, provide assessment service to the public and protect them in any way necessary."
Anand James, managing director of Caribbean Flavours and Fragrance Limited, the company that won the major award for excellence in small business, said, "It was a lot of hard work."
He continued, "The important thing is that we maintain the quality and standard, as without quality the company could not be successful."
Other winner
Trinjam Food Processing Limited, operated as JP Tropical Foods, was the other winner to cop the NQA for excellence in manufacturing.
David Martin, managing director of JP Tropical Foods, though hesitant, revealed that the company will be embarking on strategies to make sweet potato, plantain and cassava chips household names, just as the famous St Mary's banana chips.
Other companies to have copped sectional prizes in the NQA were Digicel for customer service in the service sector; Nestle Jamaica Limited in the human resource sector; Red Stripe in the organisational sector, and Beaches Boscobel in both the organisational focus and process management sections.