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Breakdown of the number of winners and Highly Commended awards
Winners
Highly Commended
Total No. Awards
Total No. Entries
Group A
11
50
61
167
Group B
5
17
22
64
Group C
1
3
4
9
Group D
1
-
1
1
Total
18
70
88
241
entries were “lost”` in transit. We must thank all the entrants for respecting the request for “on time” dispatch of their samples.
The continued success of separating the Wines and Cosmetics categories was evident in 49 entries being received in each category respectively. This equates to 20% of the entries in each category or 40% in total. This separation allows the other categories to win awards in their own right with labels which are very functional yet maybe are not as flamboyant as the wine and cosmetic entries. The Combination category was the second most popular category with 25 entries (10%). For the first time in many years the dedicated entries for the flexographic category came second (just over 8%) to the Combination category by a small margin. Two entries were selected by the judging panel for Special Mention and both received Category awards in addition.
The number of Marketing Group entries continues to dominate the total number of entries (167) compared to the Printing Processes Group (64).
This year the judging panel had a slightly different structure. Tony White who normally chairs the Panel was unable to travel due to temporary health issues so Mike Fairley, well known in the label industry stood in as temporary chairman for the judging process. The rest of the panel included regulars Murat Sipahioglu from Turkey and Steve Wood from the UK. Steve did an excellent job of pre-checking the entries to ensure that they were all in the correct categories We welcomed a judge from the host country France, Mr Bernard Plat a past president of the French label association UNFEA and Mr Bill Bruce our media judge for this year who joined the judges for the final two days. As usual Rik Olthof from Cartils, a well known design agency in The Netherlands, did a sterling job with his incisive views on the merits of the designs on the winning labels.
Jakovina (FINAT Secretariat) managed the logistic side of the competition before, during and after the judging had been completed. Maxine (Steve’s wife) helped Steve on the pre-judging day to set out the different categories.
List of the number of entries from the top ten countries and the number of awards
Smyth/Dow Industries (USA) for Combination Line/Screen, IPE (Spain) for Combination Wines/Spirits and Skanem Poznan (Poland) for Booklets. The winning plaques will only be presented to the winning companies who attend the Congress in Monte Carlo in early June. See also page 70 for an extensive jury report.
JUDGES COMMENTS ON THE WINNERS:
Best in Show
The “Best in Show” and the “Printing Processes” Group awards went to Multi Labels Ltd, UK for the “The Irishman Single Malt” label. Please see the comments in the introduction.
MARKETING / END-USE GROUP A
Category Awards
A1: WINES
There were Joint winners in this category as it was difficult for the judges to choose between the two winners.
Collotype Labels, Australia for Pocketwatch Cabernet Sauvignon.
A very clean attractive looking label catches the attention of the viewer with half a pocket watch appearing to be coming out of a white envelope. By only using two colours
Turkey 39 UK 28 Poland 25 Germany 20 India 13 Switzerland 11 Greece 10 France 10 Spain 9 Austria 9
12 awards 11 awards 10 awards 7 awards 4 awards 5 awards 5 awards 3 awards 4 awards 1 award
(31%) (39%) (40%) (35%) (30%) (45%) (50%) (30%) (44%)
(11%)
With such a good selection to choose from it will be difficult to select the FINAT entries for the World Label Awards (WLA) competition which will be judged just before LabelExpo Americas, Chicago in early September.
In the 2013 WLA competition FINAT received 4 main awards and the recipients are Stratus Packaging (France) for Innovation, Schreiner Group (Germany) for Combination Line, Kolibri Labels (The Netherlands) for Screen and Pragati Pack (India) for Flexo Line. There were 6 Honourable Mentions including Bahar Etiket (Turkey) for Flexo Line/ Screen, Skanem Ltd Liverpool (UK) for Offset Line/Screen, Collotype Labels (Australia) for Offset Wines/Spirits,
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