Awards

It's the foodservice packaging event of the year ...

If your company is an FPA member and you fancy your chances at scooping one of our coveted FPA Awards, take a look through the categories below and review the associated entry criteria.

We look forward to receiving your entry. All entrants to the Product Innovation Awards will also be invited to exhibit at the Award Exhibition during the afternoon of the Awards.

Manufacturing members will be asked to vote for their top three regional distributors.

The voting criteria will be based upon:

Their business performance
Their governance, behaving ethically in everything they do
Investing in their business and their teams
Demonstrating they listen to their customers by the questions they ask you
Maintaining strong dialogue with you with regard to opportunities and issues
Team and customer training
Promoting your products to their customers including well presented catalogues and online
Standing head and shoulders above other regional distributors with regards to their day to day operation

Manufacturing members will be asked to vote for their top three national distibutors.

The voting criteria will be based upon:

Their business performance
Their governance, behaving ethically in everything they do
Investment in their business and their teams
Their logistics ensuring they understand their customers' requirements, supplying them efficiently and in time
Commitment and respect for their suppliers and maintaining dialogue with them
Their environmental based programmes and willingness to engage with others in seeking improvements including lobbying on key issues
Working with you to develop new solutions to address environmental and legislative changes
Their market intelligence
Identifying new on the go food and drink opportunities
Promoting your products to their customers
Their CSR activities
Their marketing and communications including their website
Standing head and shoulders above other regional distributors with regards to their day to day operation

FPA members are invited to enter packaging and foodservice related products used front of house and introduced to the market in the 18 months prior to 1 March 2025.

ENTRIES SHOULD DEMONSTRATE INNOVATION IN
AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

The use of materials
Reductions in waste and resource
Ability to collect and achieve recycling/composting
Ease of use by the trade
Safety and hygiene and meeting regulations
Reducing food waste
Enabling new food and drink offerings to be placed on the market
Maintaining product quality if not consumed immediately or transported
Reflecting new distribution channels
Meeting the needs of specific targets and/or occasions and events
Reducing litter
Improving customer experience and enjoyment
Style, branding and design (including promotions)

The judges, all independent of the FPA, will meet to assess your entries. You are welcome to enter multiple products provided each is on a separate entry form and separate fee, is produced by a FPA member company and first marketed within the UK during the 18 months to 1 March 2025.

The deadline for entry to this Award is 17 January 2025.

FPA members are invited to enter packaging and foodservice related products used back of house and introduced to the market in the 18 months prior to 1 March 2025.

ENTRIES SHOULD DEMONSTRATE INNOVATION IN
AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

The use of materials
Reductions in waste and resource
Ability to collect and achieve recycling/composting
Ease of use by the trade
Safety and hygiene and meeting regulations
Reducing food waste
Enabling new food and drink offerings to be placed on the market
Maintaining product quality if not consumed immediately or transported
Reflecting new distribution channels
Meeting the needs of specific targets and/or occasions and events
Reducing litter
Improving customer experience and enjoyment
Style, branding and design (including promotions)

The judges, all independent of the FPA, will meet to assess your entries. You are welcome to enter multiple products provided each is on a separate entry form and separate fee, is produced by a FPA member company and first marketed within the UK during the 18 months to 1 March 2025.

The deadline for entry to this Award is 17 January 2025.

Entries must be based on programmes that have the objectives of reducing waste and / or achieving environmental improvements and / or resources efficiency. The Award does not include actual products which should be entered into the Product Innovation Award. However the development of a culture including practices that foster product development with the aim of achieving the objectives above are included. Areas may include (but by no means limited to materials, energy, water, emissions, recycling, research and logistics. The scale of the initiative is not a judging consideration.

Corporate and social responsibility activities should be entered into the FPA CSR award.

The deadline for entry to this Award is 17 January 2025.

The FPA Corporate & Social Responsibility Award recognises the impact FPA members make on society whether it be their local community, the wider society and economy or their employees’ well being and self-esteem.

Entries may include (but are by no means limited to): responsible sourcing, stakeholder engagement, care for the local community and environment, community relationships, working with organisations such as schools, schemes to improve the welfare of employees, employee volunteering, health and well being, caring for those in need. Judges will be looking for well thought out and implemented programmes that have a strong benefit and have achieved your objectives, scale is not a factor.

Environmental activities that relate to production, material use, disposal and logistics of the packaging and products you market do not form part of this award and are to be submitted to the FPA Environment Sustainability Award.

The deadline for entry to this Award is 17 January 2024

The FPA Manufacturer Award is decided on the votes of the FPA’s Distributor members and customers.

Members will be asked to vote based on the following:

The provision of high quality day to day service provided to you and your team including the ease of doing business, treating you as a valued customer, stock availability, reliability of delivery and order fulfilment

Responsiveness to environmental and legislative developments including their willingness to provide you with information you can pass on to your customers

The introduction of new products and products in advance of environmental and legislative changes and spotting and reacting to new food and drink trends

Working with you to develop new solutions in response to your customers' developments including the speedy provision of samples

Their governance and social responsibility activities and acting ethically in all their dealings

Standing out from other manufacturers in everything they do.

The FPA Food & Drink Manufacturer Award is awarded to the food and drink company considered by FPA members to have made the biggest impact in our market in the last 12 months taking into consideration some or all of the following:

ENVIRONMENT: Playing a full part in the development of packaging to achieve a circular economy for packaging including the development of schemes to encourage public participation

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS: lobbying government and working with the packaging sector to influencing legislation and policy concerning packaging

COLLABORATION: Working with FPA Member distributors and manufacturers to produce innovative foodservice packaging

RECOGNITION OF THE ROLE OF FOODSERVICE PACKAGING as a key part of their operations

INNOVATION: Developing new food and drink offerings requiring packaging to serve them

MARKETING: Use of packaging within their advertising and promotions
EXCELLENCE: the desire for highest quality in the food and drink they serve and the packaging used to serve it

Please apply your knowledge, observations, insight and experience of the market as a whole.

This award will be judged by an independent panel.

FPA Design Team Award recognises in-house packaging and product designers and their creativity and inventiveness in providing solutions to meet your customers’ needs.Judged by an independent panel, judges will be looking for imagination and the ability to create designs that bring something different to the market. Design can include the style and look of existing packs such as graphics and/or creating new packaging and product solutions to reflect new foodservice needs such as new food concepts and changes in environmental legislation.

The independent judges will be seeking some or all of the following:

How team members address aspects such as environment and legislation into their thinking
Graphics, style, and branding
Ability to give packs and products uniqueness
Having a feel for how their packs and products will be used by the public and understanding their changing needs and enhancing their foodservice experience
Demonstrating their awareness of resource efficiency and circularity
Creating technical advantages & functional improvements
Using design to achieve savings in outer packaging and shipping materials and to make savings in shipping charges
Developing new shapes so filling equipment can work more quickly
Making use of AI
Their ability to add value

Deadline for entries is 17 January 2025.

The FPA Marketing Campaign Award recognises excellence in marketing and promotion by FPA member companies. Campaigns can include advertising, social media, video, exhibitions, posters, merchandise, websites, email promotions, and print including brochures.

Judged by an independent panel, judges will be looking for creativity, impact and effectiveness in producing results measured against objectives and budget. Overall spend is not a key factor and small, well targeted campaigns are as equally welcome as those backed by big budgets.

Deadline for entries is 17 January 2025.

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Entering the 2025 FPA Awards

It's the foodservice packaging event of the year ...

Rules of entry and categories