PrintWeek Printing Company of the Year

PrintWeek Company of the Year is the ultimate accolade in the printing industry. This award recognises outstanding achievement based on the financial and business performance of a company during the judging period (see criteria below). Please supply any information that helps to substantiate your achievement, including report and accounts and a 500-word summary on why you should win this award. We will also need a short summary of your company, achievements such as winning a new contract, or how you produced a print job under exceptional circumstances. Other information, such as letters of commendation, investment strategies, and growth plans will also be considered.

SME Company of the Year

Using the same criteria as in the PrintWeek Company of the Year Award, this category is for the small- and medium-sized print firms, the backbone of the industry. It is designed to recognise the achievements of printers with up to 50 employees and/or a turnover of less than Rs 50 crore. Please share a 500-word summary on why you should win this award. Other information, such as letters of commendation, investment strategies, and growth plans will also be considered.

Packaging Company of the Year - Folding Cartons (Volume)

The Packaging Company of the Year in the Folding Cartons (Volume) category will focus on the packaging converter's overall financial and business performance of those companies whose 90%business comprises long-runs (runs of over 50,000 units). There will be no restriction on shapes or sizes of packaging produced. The Award will not be limited to thequality of the samples submitted. It recognises outstanding achievement based on the financial and business performance of your company.

Packaging Company of the Year - Folding Cartons (Specialisation)

The Packaging Company of the Year in the Folding Cartons (Specialisation) category will focus on the packaging converter's overall financial and business performance of those who specialise in premium segment of packaging such as presentation boxes for wines and spirits, media packaging for DVD or book boxsets and whose 90% business comprises these kinds of products. There will be no restriction on shapes or sizes of packaging produced.

Packaging Company of the Year - Flexible Packaging

The Packaging Company of the Year - Flexible Packaging category will focus on the packaging converter's overall financial and business performance of those companies whose 90% business comprises flexible packaging. The award will not be limited to the quality of the samples submitted. It recognises outstanding achievement based on the financial and business performance of your company.

Packaging Company of the Year - Rigid Packaging (Metal / PET / Plastic)

This category will focus on the packaging converter's overall financial and business performance of those companies whose 90% business comprises rigid packaging in any of the three applications – metal, PET or plastic. The award will not be limited to the quality of the samples submitted. It recognises outstanding achievement based on the financial and business performance of your company.

Pre-Press and Design Service Provider of the Year

This Award seeks to recognise a combination of outstanding financial performance and breakthrough pre-press and design service achievements. Please supply information that highlights your pre-press achievement. Please note: besides trade shops and design service bureaus, entries from in-house pre-press operations including Design Department or subsidiaries will be accepted provided they are run as separate businesses with their own set of accounts.

Green Company of the Year – Large

This award will be conferred to the print company that has done most to improve its environmental performance during the period under review. The judges for this category will be specialists and this will be the only category they will judge. A detailed entry form for this category will be made available on request. Please write to printweekawards@haymarketsac.com to procure the form. Companies with a turnover above Rs 50-crores can apply in this category.

Green Company of the Year – SME

This award will be conferred to the print company that has done most to improve its environmental performance during the period under review. The judges for this category will be specialists and this will be the only category they will judge. A detailed entry form for this category will be made available on request. Please write to printweekawards@haymarketsac.com to procure the form. Companies with a turnover under Rs 50crores can apply in this category.

Student of the Year

The packaging and print industry is well aware that the industry lacks quality manpower,and this category is a bid to push the ‘skill factor’ for the benefit of the industry. The goal of the award is simple: to honour the best trainees in the industry and prove that a passion for print is something to be celebrated and nurtured. The category is open to any engineering degree student, full or part time, on a print-related course at a recognised Indian college and should have passed out in 2021. The student should be planning to make a career in the printing and packaging industry in India. There is no limit to the number of students a college may nominate. Entries should be submitted by a lecturer or a department head and should include a report on why each student is nominated, together with examples of his or her work.

Book Printer of the Year (Academic and Trade)

In this category, books submitted should be science, technical, medical; and textbook types (books with mono colour or two-colour printed inner pages and multi-colour printed cover). Judges will be looking for the highest quality of printing married to precision in binding. Entrants must submit four different books – either case bound or paperback or both. Please supply four unique book samples with each entry.

Book Printer of the Year (Specialty)

This category includes coffee-table books, non-fiction works covering history, sports, nature, travel, entertainment and lifestyle. Judges will be looking for the highest quality of printing married to precision in binding. Please supply four unique book samples with each entry.

Book Printer of the Year (Print-on-Demand - POD)

This category is aimed at short-run (one or less than 100) digital printed books. Judges will be seeking the company that best demonstrates a combination of the highest quality colour results, with innovative applications. Please supply four unique book samples with each entry.

Digital Printer of the Year

Judges will be seeking the company that best demonstrates a combination of good quality colour results, with innovative applications printed digitally. Besides digitally printed cut-sheets, digitally produced wide-formation applications such as POS / outdoor or indoor signage will also be accepted as entries under this category. TheAward-winning entry will illustrate the highest quality print and production values to actually be fit for purpose. Please supply four unique digital print samples with each entry.

Digital Photo Album Printer of the Year

Judges will be seeking the company that best demonstrates a combination of good quality colour results, substrates used, and fabrication of the album including innovative cover. The award-winning entry will illustrate the highest quality print and production values, to actually be fit for purpose. Please supply four unique Digital Photo Album samples with each entry.

Innovative Printer of the Year

Judges will look for the innovative combination of man and machinery to achieve a unique product. The innovation could be in any or all of the disciplines: pre-press, printing, post-press or electronic media. Please supply one sample only.

Label Printer of the Year (Self-adhesive)

Judges will be looking for the best examples of labels printed using any process (letterpress, offset, flexo, digital). Of particular interest will be the use and application of special colours and finishes, and printing on difficult or unusual substrates. Please supply four unique self-adhesive label samples with each entry.

Label Printer of the Year (Wet-glue)

Judges will be looking for the best examples of labels printed using any process (letterpress, offset, flexo, digital). Of particular interest will be the use and application of special colours and finishes, and printing on difficult or unusual substrates. Please supply four unique wet glue label samples with each entry.

Packaging Converter of the Year (Pharma)

This category encompasses all types of printed packaging including cartons, flexible packaging and other containers that would typically be expected to have been produced for the pharma segment. Entries will consist of (but are not restricted to) products such as boxes for medicines, blister packs, bottles, labels, insert and outserts among others. Award-winning packaging needs to tick a number of boxes, from illustrating the highest quality print and production values, to actually being fit for purpose, whether that be 'selling' the contents or keeping them safe from harm - or both. There will be no restriction on shapes or sizes of packaging produced. Please supply four unique Pharma Packaging samples with each entry.

Packaging Converter of the Year (F&B)

This category encompasses all types of printed packaging including cartons, flexible packaging and other containers that would typically be expected to have been produced for the food and beverage segment. Entries will consist of (but are not restricted to) products such as pouches and boxes for food, wines and spirits and even presentation packs and more. Award-winning packaging needs to tick a number of boxes, from illustrating the highest quality print and production values, to actually being fit for purpose, whether that be 'selling' the contents or keeping them safe from harm - or both. There will be no restriction on shapes or sizes of packaging produced. Please supply four unique F&B Packaging samples with each entry.

Packaging Converter of the Year (FMCG)

This category encompasses all types of printed packaging including cartons, flexible packaging and other containers that would typically be expected to have been produced for the FMCG segment. Entries will consist of (but are not restricted to) products such as boxes for FMCG products. Award-winning packaging needs to tick a number of boxes, from illustrating the highest quality print and production values, to actually being fit for purpose, whether it be 'selling' the contents or keeping them safe from harm - or both. There will be no restriction on shapes or sizes of packaging produced. Please supply four unique packaging samples with each entry.

Packaging Converter of the Year (Textile)

This category encompasses all types of printed packaging including cartons, flexible bags and other containers that would typically be expected to have been produced for the Textile segment. Entries will likely consist of (but are not restricted to) products such as bags and boxes for packaging garments, sarees, cut-pieces and even presentation packs and more. Award-winning packaging needs to tick a number of boxes, from illustrating the highest quality print and production values. There will be no restriction on shapes or sizes of packaging produced. Please supply four unique Textile Packaging samples with each entry.

Packaging Converter of the Year (Rigid Box)

This category encompasses all types of printed packaging including rigid boxes and other containers that would typically be expected to have been produced for packaging mobiles, electronic items, food and sweet boxes, and more. Entries will likely consist of boxes and even presentation packs and more. Award-winning packaging needs to tick a number of boxes, from illustrating the highest quality print and production values, to actually being fit for purpose, whether that be 'selling' the contents or keeping them safe from harm - or both. There will be no restriction on shapes or sizes of packaging produced. Please supply four unique rigid box samples with each entry.

Pre Media Company of the Year

This award aims to recognise the company that provides pre-media services – from conceptualisation of an idea right through till the data is made ready for print. This includes all stages – design, data handling, colour corrections to preparing the PDF for final print or digital media. The award-winning entry will illustrate the highest quality of production values that will culminate in the highest quality of print or output for the digital media. Please supply four unique samples with each entry.

Most Challenging Project during Covid-19

This category aims to recognise the company’s project that demonstrated the best use of available resources or technology, the duress under which the printed project was produced. The award will be judged on one project or campaign that the entering print company has both developed and executed itself or in collaboration with an agency or client. The project can be print, digital or experiential based or a combination of all three. Please support your entry with a 250-word summary on why your company should win, along with specific testimonials or documents.

Please write to printweekawards@haymarketsac.com to procure the form.

Factory of the Year during Covid-19

This category aims to recognise the business, which demonstrated excellence and resilience despite the complications and uncertainties brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. The company’s extra commitment in keeping their employees working, paid and safe during the pandemic, will come under focus. Please support your entry with a 250-word summary on why your company should win, along with specific testimonials or documents.

Please write to printweekawards@haymarketsac.com to procure the form.

Customer Service Firm during Covid-19

This award recognises the importance of world-class customer service among the packaging and print businesses, and that successful companies have to provide much more than 'just ink on paper'. It will be awarded to the company that demonstrates exemplary performance in offering innovative customer service solutions to customers. This could involve solving a specific problem(s) or thinking proactively on behalf of the customer. Please support your entry with a 250-word summary on why your company should win, along with a specific customer service case-study or studies.

Please write to printweekawards@haymarketsac.com to procure the form.

Essential Service Provider during Covid-19

While hospitals and pharma, food, milk and few other companies providing relief or service during Covid-19 were considered as essential service, packaging and printing, too, was part of that support system. This category of Award aims to identify the most impactful company that supported customers with packaging and print requirements for end-user utilisation. Please support your entry with a 250-word summary on why your company should win, along with specific testimonials from customers or case-studies.

Please write to printweekawards@haymarketsac.com to procure the form.

Frontline Team Member during Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected everyone on this planet. Hence, there will be one team – it may be a one-member team or more than one – in your company that worked valiantly over the past two years, to see that the business sustains. This Award aims to recognise the heroic work the team has done since the beginning of 2020 to keep their company and its business running, safe, and its products safely produced and supplied. For nomination in this category, be sure to include a 250-word summary, the nominee’s name(s), job title and photograph(s).

Please write to printweekawards@haymarketsac.com to procure the form.