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Point-of-purchase Printer of the Year: Imprint Group part of Pureprint Group

White Stuff was the right stuff for last year’s highly commended entrant. The Newcastle-headquartered printer created a ’Run Wild’ window campaign for the fashion chain of 120 shops.

FMCG Packaging Printer of the Year: Curtis Packaging

Typical FMCG packaging has a short shelf-life but fast turnarounds, tricky consistency demands and runs that can be achingly long. Curtis Packaging in Redhill surmounted them all with what one judge...

Social Stationery Printer of the Year: The Sherwood Group

Judges wanted consistent print, finishing and repro, and offered the warmest greetings to Sherwood’s stationery – which delivered the goods this year.

Report & Accounts Printer of the Year: Empress Litho

“Who would have thought accountants would appreciate such beautifully presented print?” asked the judges after being comprehensively wowed by the quality and attention to detail displayed in the...

Company of the Year: ProCo

This was the year ProCo changed its business model – and won PrintWeek’s most coveted awards category as a result.

SME of the Year: CS Labels

CS Labels has enjoyed a fast ride this year. A £3.25m investment programme announced in early spring included the purchase of a purpose-built 1,850sqm factory and a raft of new equipment.

Customer Services Team of the Year: Impress Print Services

The customer is king, but Impress wears the crown. Not only has the company, based in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, restructured and appointed a customer-service manager and assurance champion, it has...

Trainee of the Year: Stephen Dando, Dayfold

Ten minutes after handing his CV in at its base in Dorset, and Dayfold Print was in touch. Two years later PrintWeek Awards judges are in touch. Stephen started on the cylinder, cutting and creasing,...

Marketing Campaign of the Year: Gemini Print Group

“That’s what marketing is all about,” reckoned the judges. “Fantastic ROI that delivers on the brief.” The Shoreham-by-Sea company wanted to increase the digital printing side of its business by £1m...

Environmental Company of the Year: Nationwide Print

Much changes in this ever-evolving category and Nationwide Print, in St Austell, Cornwall, is pioneering many of those changes. Nationwide has gone from powering its presses with renewable energy and...

Luxury Packaging Printer of the Year: Boss Print

Boss by name, boss by nature: the west London printer lays on the luxury like no other, notching up another impressive performance in this category. “Loved some of the materials choices, and simply...

High-volume Magazine Printer of the Year: Wyndeham Roche

This reconfigured category was won for the first time last year by this year’s winner. Once again Wyndeham Roche produced “a web offset printing masterclass”, according to the judges. Boat...

Brochure Printer of the Year: Pureprint Group

If a picture paints a thousand words, then the highest-quality brochure must speak volumes - the production values on show here are among the highest in print, said the judges.

Direct Mail Printer of the Year: Geoff Neal Group

Our judges have a beef about this one: “All too often direct mail is slurred with the ‘junk mail’ label, yet it can show the true marketing potential of print.” Geoff Neal Group proved it with “a...

Consumers want retailers to address overpacking

Nearly a quarter (24%) of consumers are still opening goods ordered online that are overpacked, according to new research by Macfarlane Packaging.