The Stationers’ Company 2023 Stationers’ Innovation Excellence awards entries are open

The Stationers’ Company has announced that entries are now open for the 2023 Stationers’ Innovation Excellence Awards, with a closing date of 21 April

For 2023 the awards ceremony will be on 25^th September and the Company looks forward to hosting another outstanding group of dynamic innovators then.

Entries are encouraged from across the spectrum of businesses that make up the £70bn communications and content industries – including global, SME and non-profit businesses with start-ups again welcomed in a specialist category. The awards remain free to enter, and entrants do not have to be members of the Stationers’ Company – they are open to all.

Including journalism, newspaper and magazine publishing; packaging; paper making and paper converting; printing; trade, academic and information publishing; fine stationers, greeting cards and office products and related intellectual property, archival, and digital born businesses – all are welcome to submit entries in these inclusive awards.

Entries can be made in more than one of the six categories- and an overall ‘Innovator of the Year’ is chosen from the winners of each category. Entries will close at 7pm on Friday 21 April. The entry form is here https://www.stationers.org/siea-entry Award categories are:

• Business Process

• Communications and Marketing

• Customer Experience

• Product Design

• Service Development

• Start-ups

Judges are keen to see applications that focus on novel products, services or business processes that have a positive financial and/or social impact on customers and on the environment. Judging criteria are available here https://www.stationers.org/assets/Judging-Criteria-for-the-2023-Awards_c4a4.pdf.

Innovator of the Year

Xerox were the 2022 winners of Innovator of the Year. The Master, Moira Sleight presented the 2022 Award to Xerox’s Managing Director UK/Ireland, Darren Cassidy, for the ElemX printer- which uses aluminium wire rather than powder to produce a precise replica of parts – and is already used by the US Navy to produce parts at sea, setting the bar high for the overall winner in 2023.