Awards 2019

PrintWeek Awards' winners unveiled

Rapidity was crowned Company of the Year at last night’s PrintWeek Awards, where the industry celebrated the awesome power of print.

Company of the Year: Rapidity

The numbers speak for themselves: a 20% year-on-year increase in revenue and 18% growth in pre-tax profits.

SME of the Year: Resource

The Leeds-based company’s strapline is ‘making it happen’ and over the past 12 months it has lived up to the billing.

Customer Service Team of the Year: Fox Group

Nothing is ever too much effort for this direct mail specialist which claims it is the “go to people” who “never say no”.

Book Printer of the Year: Kingsbury Press

Put simply, the judges were blown away by the high quality of Kingsbury’s entry.

Environmental Company of the Year: St Austell Printing Company

Put simply sustainability is part of this Cornwall-based commercial printers’ DNA.

Trainee of the Year: Jayleigh Price, Precision Colour Printing

When Price attended an apprentice open day at Precision Colour Printing just over three years ago she was the only female out of a 30 strong group of applicants.

Post-press Company of the Year: Curtis Packaging (Specialist Finishing Division)

The saying goes that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ and it’s something that Curtis Packaging knows all about, judging by the beauty brand samples it submitted.

Direct Mail Printer of the Year: The Lettershop Group, part of the YM Group

Lettershop’s submission included samples produced for the likes of Benenden Health, Macmillan Cancer Support and Shell, but the mailer that knocked the socks off the judges was a pack produced for...

Out-of-home Printer of the Year: Omni Colour

Where do you start with such an impressive entry? Omni Colour blew away the judges with its “stunning use of materials and impressive installations”.