Celebrating innovation in the UK’s communication and creative industries, the awards are presented in October at the 17th Century Stationers’ Hall, one of the few historic livery halls remaining in the City of London.
Entries to the awards are welcome from a range of sectors, including journalism, newspaper and magazine publishing, packaging, paper making and converting, printing, fine stationery, and archival.
Judges look for “novel ideas and solutions to existing businesses or customer challenges, accompanied by evidence that the innovation has been, or will be, translated into worthwhile benefits,” according to the Company’s judging criteria.
The Stationers’ Company has appointed three new judges for 2025: Amy Hutchinson, chief executive of the BOSS Federation, trade association for the business supplies industry; Debbie Waldron-Hoines, managing director of print management firm Avant-Tout, and vice chair of the GPMA; and Doug Wills, managing editor emeritus of The Evening Standard and the Independent.
“Innovation is a vital means for organisations to remain relevant, competitive, and responsive in their respective industries and we want to celebrate it,” said Innovation Excellence committee co-chairs Vida Barr-Jones and Kate Howell.
“Our new judges, joining the lineup of industry experts, bring a wealth of entrepreneurial expertise and knowledge to the role and we cannot wait to get started in seeing what innovations 2025 has in store for us.”
Entries for the awards close on 23 May 2025.
Separately, on 10 March, the Stationers’ Company awarded its 2025 round of Stationers’ Warrants, bestowed on particularly high-quality, well-designed and sustainable products or services, at its annual Livery Lunch.
Companies awarded the warrant included:
- Barley Communications for its Social Purpose Communications
- Contact Originators for Optimus, PrintHQ and Magna Forma
- Epic Printing for Cupround
- Flashes & Flames for its weekly newsletter
- Haybrooke Associates for the PDQ Print Hub
- Office Power for its Software Platform
- OPI for Workplace 360 magazine
- Private Clients Sports for Sail Sport Talk Broadcast
- Spiegl Press for its Stamford Notebook Company
- Stone Marketing for its Faber-Castell Textliner 46 Metallic and Tombow Mono 100 Pencil
