PrintWeek India extends Awards deadline

The PrintWeek India Awards are the industry’s flagship Awards programme, judged by 50 leading brands, thereby making it the only Awards in the industry where your customer will determine your print effectiveness. Therefore the verdict is credible.

With 27 categories including six business performance Awards and 21 quality Awards, there is an equal chance for a print firm small or big to secure the top spot. For details on the categories and how to enter, visit printweekindiaawards.com

Naveen Goel of Any Graphics, the PrintWeek India Label Printer of the Year 2013 said, “It feels great to win this Award for the second time. It is a tough competition and well organised event. Winning an award after competing against industry’s best players enables us to benchmark ourselves and keep improving. The recognition also encourages our team internally as well as helps us promote ourselves to our customers.”

But what’s the value of winning a PrintWeek India Award?

Winning, of course, brings its own advantages. PWI Awards bring credibility not only to your company but also to your partners, vendors and clients. This can have a direct and dramatic impact on your firm since it clearly differentiates you from your competitors, and can provide a realcompetitive advantage when seeking or retaining customers.

Also, since there is only one winner per category, the Award gives you a unique distinction you can promote in your marketing.

Not only that, they also play an important role of team motivation internally. And for many print firms this motivation can be worth more than any reward.

Last week, when I was in Germany, I met a co-owner of a label machine manufacturer. According to a survey done by his company, wherein it studied 26 parameters that define the performance of a printing plant, the highest rated parameter was operator motivation.

After all the award winning print jobs are results of team work and for your staff to be part of that award winning team will make them proud to be part of your business.

Moving ahead, the awards ceremony can open up impressive networking opportunities with over 350 other business people attending the night.

Last but not the least, don't assume it will be only the big companies who win the awards.  Most awards are won by businesses which have a truly original concept or have created genuine masterpieces- for their size, circumstances or sector.  As long as you are able to quantify the efforts put into creating that print job and how you have done it you always have an equal chance of winning no matter how small your print business is.

Feeling motivated? The PrintWeek India Awards is now open for entries until 15 August 2014.