Celebrate PIDA Award winners recognition at the 2020 WorldStar Packaging Special & Student Virtual Awards ceremony on 26 August in one of two event screenings (8.00 am or 5.00 pm AEST).
Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) Members and industry colleagues are invited to participate in the up-coming Virtual 2020 WorldStar Packaging Special Awards ceremony on the 26th of August that will see the largest number of Australian and New Zealand companies be recognised globally for their innovative packaging designs. These companies are previous winners in the annual ANZ PIDA awards competition, the exclusive entry point for ANZ companies for the WorldStar Packaging Awards.
The WorldStar Packaging Special Awards are the highest accolades within the annual global WorldStar Packaging Awards and are made up of four categories.
1. Marketing
2. Packaging that Saves Food
3. Sustainable Packaging Design
4. President’s Award
For the first time, Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Award (PIDA) winners from across Australia and New Zealand will be recognised with the highest number of WorldStar Packaging Special Awards including the President’s Award (Plantic Technologies & Neat Meats), Packaging that Saves Food Special Award (Hazeldene Chicken Farm & Sealed Air) and Sustainable Packaging Special Award (Woolworths Australia, Lewis Road Creamery & Pact Group).
During the virtual ceremony the World Packaging Organisation will be recognising two Lifetime Achievement in Packaging Award winners including our very own Joe Foster FAIP, managing director, OF Packaging (Australia) and Keith Pearson, former General Secretary of WPO, (South Africa.)
The ceremony will showcase 15 winners in the Special Awards including the Lifetime Achievement in Packaging Award, President´s Award, Sustainable Packaging Design Special Award, Packaging that Saves Food Special Award and the Marketing Special Award.
In addition, 12 winners will be showcased in the Student Awards including Overall Gold, Silver and Bronze Star Awardees, Marketing Appeal, Sustainability and Save Food Packaging.
Winners that will be recognised are from 14 countries around the globe - Singapore, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Netherlands, USA, Finland, Brazil, Lebanon, Turkey, United Kingdom, China, South Africa.
The WPO will be running the ceremony twice on the same day simply to ensure that every winner from around the world has the ability to join the event. For Australian and New Zealanders you are lucky, as you have the opportunity to choose either the 8.00 am ceremony or the 5.00 pm.
As the ceremony will include 11 categories it will be split up into two parts so that you will be able to dial in to either all of the ceremony, or just for the part that will showcase categories of interest. (Further details on which categories will be in Part 1 and Part 2 will be sent from the World Packaging Organisation closer to the event)
If you wish to attend, send Rachel Bayswater an email rachel.bayswater@iom3.org with details as listed below. Rachel will then send you instructions as to how to log on to the Zoom call.
• Which ceremony you wish to attend – Ceremony 1: (8.00 am AEST) or Ceremony 2: (5.00 pm AEST)
• Your name
• Company
• Email
AIP executive director Nerida Kelton said: "The AIP would ask that you please share the dates of the WorldStar Packaging Award Special Awards with your colleagues, friends and family and come and celebrate this amazing achievement by the PIDA Award winners. The more the merrier!"
