Innovation Awards

Unleashing creativity and celebrating innovation in the packaging community.

Created by brands for brands

With more judges, more categories, and more opportunities to stand out, the 2026 Innovation Awards is the ultimate way to celebrate and recognise your brand’s best packs.

Entries have now closed for the 2026 Innovation Awards. Finalists will be announced on August 3^rd and winners will be crowned on the 17^th of September on the Luxury Stage. We can’t wait to see you at the ceremony.

Created by brands for brands

The London Packaging Week Innovation Awards celebrates outstanding technical and creative excellence across luxury, beauty and personal care, beverages, food and consumer goods, and sustainable packaging – shining a spotlight on the ideas that are redefining what packaging can do.

With more judges, more categories, and more opportunities to stand out, the Innovation Awards are the ultimate way to celebrate and recognise your brand’s best packs.

Created by brands for brands

With more judges, more categories, and more opportunities to stand out, the 2026 Innovation Awards was our biggest edition yet. We celebrated our winners at London Packaging Week with a lavish awards ceremony and a display of all finalists at the show.

If you want to be in with a chance to have your pack judged by an array of brands and displayed to over 6,600 visitors at London Packaging Week 2027, make sure to register your interest today.

VIEW 2026 CATEGORIES AND CRITERIA

Announcing: 2026 Finalist Report

The benchmark for innovation.

Explore the 2026 Innovation Awards finalists and discover the 5 key trends shaping tomorrow’s packs. See how brands are transforming packaging into art, experiences, and cultural storytelling, and get inspired by the ideas redefining what packaging can be.

Key dates timeline

2 March

Awards open!

24 April

Submission deadline

11 May

Extended deadline

22 May

Packs delivered to our office

1 July

Judging day

3 August

Finalists announced

17 Sept

Awards Ceremony

2026: Categories designed to best suit to your product & innovation

Whether your innovations are in the luxury, cosmetics, drinks or FMCG sphere, there is an award category for you.

The Luxury & Premium Packaging Innovation Awards focuses on fashion, accessories, gifting, & fine food packs.

The Perfume, Cosmetics and Personal Care Innovation Awards are dedicated to all beauty packaging including makeup, skin & hair care.

The Drinks Packaging Innovation Awards showcases the very best in beverage packaging from alcoholic to non-alcoholic.

The Food and Consumer Pack Innovation Awards celebrate the best designs in everyday food and FMCG packaging.

The Sustainability Innovation Awards is dedicated to the products that put the environment first from all packaging sectors.

SEE THE CRITERIA AND FAQs

Nominated by you, judged by the London Packaging Week team, these awards recognise outstanding contribution to the packaging sector.

2026 JUDGEs:

THIS YEAR'S WINNERS AND FINALISTS'

The winners for the third annual London Packaging Week Innovation Awards have been revealed!

The judges have crowned the best the UK packs on the market in the past year.

Celebrating the UK’s most forward-thinking packaging innovations, this year’s entries showcased outstanding creativity, technical excellence and sustainable designs from some of the industry’s biggest brands.