Unleashing creativity and celebrating innovation in the packaging community

Innovation Awards

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Innovation Awards is back for 2025!

Created by brands for brands

London Packaging Week is pleased to announce the launch of the Innovations Awards. Designed to single out the “Packaging Innovations of the year”, it is a chance for you to get recognised for your best packs across the Packaging Première – the luxury goods industry; PCD – the cosmetics sector; PLD – the premium drinks trade and Food & Consumer Pack  – the FMCG market.

For your chance to win, simply:

1. Submit an entry

2. Send your products to us

Created by brands for brands

Designed to highlight the ‘Packaging Innovations of the Year,’ the Innovations Awards provide an opportunity for you to be recognised for your best packaging across the following sectors:

Luxury & Premium Packaging, Perfume, Cosmetics & Personal Care Packaging, Drinks Packaging, Food Packaging, Consumer Packaging, and, finally, the Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award.

Find out the winners at London Packaging Week on 16 October at 12:30pm on the Luxury Stage.

The London Packaging Week Innovation Awards, held at Excel London, marked the grand finale of the show’s 15th edition – honouring the industry’s most visionary minds and creative breakthroughs.

From cutting-edge technical solutions to stunning artistic craftsmanship, this year’s winners showcased the power of packaging to inspire, engage, and connect. A panel of 18 expert judges selected 13 winners and awarded 9 certificates of merit from 120+ entries and 80 finalists.

These standout innovations were featured in a dedicated showcase throughout the event, offering attendees a rare opportunity to explore the future of packaging design up close.

Winners were revealed live on the Luxury Stage at 12:30 pm on 16 October, closing the show with a celebration of excellence in design, sustainability, and brand storytelling.

Judged by the most influential brands

6 March

Awards open!


23 May

Packs delivered to our offices

 

14 August

Finalists announced

 

2 May

Submission deadline

26 June

Judging Day

16 October

Awards Ceremony

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 Packaging Innovation Awards is created to celebrate the best designs in everyday food packaging

The Consumer Pack Innovation Awards are created to celebrate the best designs in FMCG packaging

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

submit a thought-provoking, informative session proposal to join the ranks of packaging professionals, CEO’s, design experts and more, who are passionate about sharing their experience and ideas in creating the future of packaging. 

What you need to know:

  • Submissions are open NOW, and will CLOSE on the 30TH of APRIL 2023.
  • Sessions are 30 minutes including Q+A.
  • Stages are as follows: 1. Food & Consumer, 2. Beauty & Drinks, 3. Luxury. (Please ensure your proposal aligns with one or more of these sectors).
  • Session topics & themes will be announced in due course.
 
Fill the form below with your initial thoughts, and we will get back to you to discuss!

AWARD FAQS

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JUDGES

Present your innovations to a jury of leading brands in the industry. Get to know the faces behind the competition.
DISCOVER THE JUDGES

2025 WINNERS

Discover the shortlisted packs from the 2025 Innovation Awards and be inspired.
SEE THE finalists

“The judging experience was really interesting and it was great to see all of the contributions – great variety.”

Saul Johnstone, Senior Procurement Manager

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These awards show that we can innovate in new materials and substrates – they really sum up all the good things I believe packaging has to offer. 

Neil Farmer, Founder

Neil Farmer Associates