Parksons Packaging bags its second PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year trophy.
The PrintWeek India Awards 2017 announced its winners who received ‘Prisms’ at the awards function held at the St Regis in Mumbai on 2nd November, 2017. Hormazd Sorabjee, MD, Haymarket India, welcomed around 300 guests that attended the awards function.
This year, the Awards received more than 1,050 samples sent by 125 print firms across India, where Parksons Packaging scooped the coveted PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year trophy. This is Parksons’ second consecutive win. The biggest winner was Pragati Offset, taking home three Awards from the categories it was shortlisted in. Meanwhile, Silverpoint and Spectrum Scan bagged two Award Prisms apiece.
The highlights of the annual Awards are the Performance categories. Mumbai’s Trigon Digital Solutions was named Pre-Press Company of the Year, and Bengaluru’s Brilliant Printers won the Post-Press Company of the Year title. Surat’s Progressive Printing Press is the SME Printing Company of the Year while the PrintWeek India Green Printing Company of the Year honour went to Sivakasi’s Lovely Offset.
Marvel Graphic Studio (Ahmedabad) won the Fine Art Printer Award for the seventh consecutive year in a row, while Avantika (Delhi) and Divya Bhaskar newspaper (Ahmedabad) kept its winning streak in the Digital Printer Award and Newspaper Award category, respectively.
The Book of the Night on the Awards Night was unveiled on 4 November by Ramesh Kejriwal and the Parksons Packaging team along with the chief guest, Rahul daCunha, MD and creative head, daCunha Communications and Hormazd Sorabjee. The Book of the Night is a special Collector’s Edition issue, published every year to commemorate the Awards night.
Noel D’Cunha, the managing editor of PrintWeek India, said, “The special issue is called Book of the Night for a reason; for it features the details of the print samples that helped the Award winning companies clinch the prism. This year, we have Quality Awards in 17 categories and seven performance categories.”
There were also a number of first-time winners on the night, like Awards debutant Progressive Printing Press from Surat, as well as Archana Advertising, HBD Packaging, Kumar Labels and packaging powerhouse Huthamaki PPL.
