The 41st Annual New Jersey Packaging Executives Club (NJPEC) Awards Gala Recognizes the Year’s Most Outstanding Packaging Engineering & Design

The New Jersey Packaging Executives Club (NJPEC) announces its 41st Annual Package of the Year (POY) Awards Gala, taking place Thursday, December 5, 2019 at The Madison Hotel in Morristown, NJ. The NJPEC POY Awards Gala will include the awards presentation, Tricky Tray, live music and all the submitted packaging on display. Advanced registration is encouraged as the event will sell-out. Registration information can be found at www.njpec.com/events-calendar.

The annual NJPEC POY Awards recognizes the year’s best packaging designs and innovations, and this year’s program saw an impressive number of submissions. An elite panel of judges of top packaging executives from a broad spectrum of industries and brands as well as packaging students selected the winners in 10 different categories.

The highest NJPEC honor for 2019, Package of the Year, will be presented to: PACOLLECTION for PACO RABANNE by TNT Global Manufacturing.

The Students’ Choice Award will go to: Ellis Brooklyn–Marvelous Massage & Body Oil for Boom by SeaCliff Beauty Packaging and Laboratories.

Category winners for the top Platinum Award include:

• Color Cosmetics: MAC Electric Wonder by MAC Cosmetics
• Food & Beverage: Satryna Tequila for Csatrina Holdings by Metal Dynamics
• Fragrance: PACOLLECTION for PACO RABANNE by TNT Global Manufacturing
• Food & Beverage: Satryna Tequila for Csatrina Holdings by Metal Dynamics
• Gift Set: Lunar New Year Skin Care Set for Erno Lazlo by Integrated Packaging Industries, Inc.
• Graphics: Colors in Bloom Collection for HCT Group and Milli Rose Beauty by HCT Group
• Health & Beauty: Kosasport LipFuel for Kosas by Presto Packaging Solutions
• Household Industrial: Swing Sider Line for Casabella by Bradshaw Home/Casabella
• Personal Care: Ellis Brooklyn – Marvelous Massage & Body Oil for Boom by SeaCliff Beauty Packaging and Laboratories
• Promotional: Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy® Collector’s Edition for Limited Run Games by Millenium Print Group

Gold, Silver, Bronze, Marketing Impact, Technical Merit, Visual Impact, Packaging Innovations, Stock Packaging, and Sustainability awards will also be presented and all the POY submissions will be showcased in a prominent display in the banquet room during the event.

The judges for the 41st Annual 2019 POY included: Ali Mokhtari, DSM; Allan Hafkin, Estee Lauder; Andrea Escobar, Ecos-Evolution of Smooth; Anthony Garaguso, J&J; Brian Henry, Revlon; Derek Schmidt, Avon; Gina Rokose, Aquent-Creative Services, Colgate-Palmolive; George Toth, L’Oreal; Jay Gorga, Beauty Packaging; Jill Hilton, Estee Lauder; Joanne Vesper, L’Oreal /Ralph Lauren; Leslie Artesona, Strivectin; Remon Zakhary, Bayer; Scott Roman, Estee Lauder; and Yeon Roh, Estee Lauder; and student judges Ilona Dyrda, College of Technology, NYC; and from Rutgers: Daniela Cruz, Hala Doumit, Laura Kershaw, and Tyriek Bryant.

“All the judges were impressed with the wide range of packaging ingenuity and brand impact displayed in this year’s competition. We look forward to Awards night and the gala, when the entire industry comes together to recognize and celebrate this year’s incredible achievements in packaging, design, and engineering,” said Peter Gould, Co-Committee Chair, of the NJPEC POY.

Reservations to attend the 41st Annual NJPEC Package of the Year Awards Gala can be found here: https://njpec.com/events-calendar. For more information on the POY Awards, please contact: Peter Gould, or Karen Hadden-Wolf. To donate to the Tricky Tray, which supports the NJPEC scholarship program contact: Holly Benda. For attendee “swag’ bag donations contact Maureen Eustice.