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UK Packaging Awards 2009: The Gallery
This year's awards dinner, held last night (4 November), brought together more than 400 of the industry's top players. Here we bring you the night, as it happened, in pictures.
Guests sit down for dinner at the Grosvenor House hotel on London's Park Lane
Three guests check out who else is in the room
Staeger Clear Packaging gets into the swing of the night
Packaging News editor Josh Brooks welcomes the industry to the dinner
Matthew Benyon of sponsor easyFairs and the BBC's Bill Turnbull present the Best Packaging of a New Product award to Aqualisa Products
Doug James of design agency Honey Creative picks up the gong for Spicentice in the Best Repackaging of a Brand category
Timestrip's Tristan Allen and Reuben Isbitsky celebrate their first award of the night in the Labelling category
Bill Turnbull hands the Retail Ready Packaging trophy to Inspirepac's Alan Goodall
Simon Owens of DS Smith Speciality Packaging Launceston collects trophy number one for the Goodness Foods organic transit box in the Supply Chain Solution award
David Workman of sponsor British Glass presents the Glass Packaging trophy to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Another award for Timestrip, this time in the Innovation of the Year category, presented by Ian Crawford of sponsor Total Processing & Packaging 2010
Kate Dean of Parkam Foods and Nikki Dixon, David Ford and Peter Burn of Asda Stores share the honours in the Consumer Convenience category
Simon Owens collects a second trophy for DS Smith Speciality Packaging Launceston, this time in the Corrugated Packaging category
Naomi Pope of Corus, who sponsored the Metal Packaging award, with winners Steve Goodman and Vanessa Darwin of The Silver Crane Company
Blue Marlin Brand Design's Jim Burton and Guy Williams collect their trophy in the Rigid Plastic Packaging category for the Isklar water bottle
It's all smiles as Bill Turnbull hands FFP Packaging Solutions' Gary Tee the trophy for Flexible Plastic Packaging
One product, three winners: representatives of design agency Webb Scarlett deVlam, Chesapeake Branded Packaging and API Laminates collect their awards for Bombay Sapphire Reign in the Cartonboard category
Artenius PET Packaging celebrates winning the Sustainable Pack of the Year gong
Robert Opie, founder of the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, recieves his award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry from award sponsor Dani Novick of Mercury Search & Selection
Jonathan Coote of DS Smith Speciality Packaging Launceston picks up the trophy for Environmental Company of the Year
Swanline Print's Nick Kirby is delighted with his company's victory in the Supplier of the Year category
Burgopak's Kieron Tarling walks home with the Design Company of the Year award
Ian Jamie of Staeger Clear Packaging celebrates in style after winning the evening's top award, UK Packaging Company of the Year
Do you have photos from last night's event? Send them to packagingnews.editorial@haymarket.com and we will post them on this gallery.
