19 June 2007

Excellence Awards 2007-Congratulations to our winners

2007 Excellence Awards Winners
Congratulations to all of our winner

About the Awards

The Excellence Awards are about setting the standards for business. Print is a fantastic communication medium and capable of some truly breathtaking quality, but these awards are about excellence in managing print businesses. There is no shame in turning a profit and there should be equal pride amongst printers in their business acumen and in ensuring that their businesses are profitable now and in the future, as there is in the quality of production.

UK Company rewards excellence of a whole organisation, while Entrepreneur and Lifetime Achievement shine the spotlight on those individuals putting the most of themselves into their business or the industry. Turnaround recognises those firms that haven’t been scared to tackle trouble head on and have come out the other side a success. A business thrives by its relationships with all those it touches, whether they are its customers, staff or suppliers. With categories including Marketing, E-Business, Export and Customer Service we are highlighting excellence in dealing with customers and suppliers.

People are a company’s biggest asset: hence the importance of our awards for Human Resources and Health & Safety and the four National Training and Development Awards. Then there are those who are not necessarily directly involved in the business but who are nonetheless affected by its actions. Firms that have gone all out for excellence on behalf of external stakeholders as well as their company and their staff and customers will be eligible for the Environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. The UK print industry has many world class businesses: The Excellence Awards will give you the opportunity to stand up and be seen as the best of the best. You don’t have to be a BPIF member or a Printing World subscriber to enter, so that’s two fewer excuses to keep you from a chance of celebrating your excellence on 14 June. Good luck.

We all like to think we’re good at what we do. Awards give us a chance to measure our performance against our peers and competitors in a different way to the sometimes brutal whims of the market. For winners and shortlisted firms it’s a great promotional exercise that shows clients, staff and suppliers your commitment to excellence and them. The same is true to an extent just through having the commitment to enter. But it’s also a useful opportunity to step back and reassess your business, even if you don’t win an award there are other rewards to be had from taking the effort to enter that take you further down the path to excellence.
Barney Cox
Editor, Printing World

The BPIF has been supporting the UK printing industry through wholesale change over the last decade and especially in the last two years. This year our new partnership with Printing World for a bigger and better Excellence Awards shows the continued commitment that we are making to the printing industry as a whole. The awards will reach a wider audience than ever before and will cover more aspects of best practice in managing print businesses. We are very excited about this year’s awards and although these events take a great deal of energy to organise we always feel a sense of achievement when we see the level and number of entries and hope that everyone who gets involved with them feels the same way. It just leaves me to say good luck and that I look forward to seeing you all on 14 June.
Michael Johnson
Chief Executive, BPIF