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Article by Nampak 26 October 2011

Multiple wins for Nampak at 2011 Gold Pack Awards

Nampak, Africa’s largest packaging group, has won a total of 14 awards at the 2011 Gold Pack Awards during a glittering ceremony held in Cape Town on the evening of Tuesday 25th of October. The Nampak Group won ten gold medals, three Best in Category awards, and the prestigious Star of Africa award.

Regarded as South Africa’s premier packaging awards programme, the Gold Pack Awards is a biennial competition that recognises leading design innovation in the packaging industry, and offers development teams the opportunity to showcase their best packaging solutions.

Best in Category awards are given to the most exceptional packaging in the various award categories, and Nampak really displayed their expertise with four Nampak divisions being judged to have the best packaging in the following categories:

• Export: Camelthorn multipurpose12-bottle carton produced by Nampak Cartons & Labels.
• Promotional: SAB (South African Breweries, [Status]) family pack, jointly produced by Nampak DivFood (aluminium bottle, [Status]), Nampak Cartons & Labels (display carton, [Status]) and Nampak Corrugated (corrugated shipper, [Status]).
• Transit: Keen Bumbo Baby Seat stackable carton produced by Nampak Cartons & Labels.
Nampak’s ten gold medals were awarded across numerous categories, displaying the group’s effectiveness in diverse specialist areas. In the Food category, Nampak Cartons & Labels’ Nola Bobtail carton, Nampak Flexible’sSimba Doritos crisps bag and Nampak Research & Development’s internally printed food can endsall earned gold medals.

Nampak Bevcan’s full aperture Castle Lager can, Nampak Bevcan’s Castle Litethermochromic beverage can and Nampak Cartons & Labels’ KWV Immoya brandy gift pack brought home gold medals in the Beverage category.

In the Transit category, Nampak Flexible’s 10 Litre lard dispensing bag and Nampak Megapak’s lightweight bread tray developed for Saskoalso delivered gold medals.

Accounting for Nampak’s final two gold medals in the category Technical (Other, [Status]) was Nampak Cartons & Labels’ Sasri soil sample carton and the BAT Vogue cigarette carton also produced by Nampak Cartons & Labels.

Wrapping it up for Africa’s packaging giant was the Star of Africa award (Best in Category, [Status]) for Nampak Hunyani Corrugated’s Lake Harvest Tilapia shipper as the best pack produced by an African operation outside of South Africa.
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