Themed on
the Roman Empire, the Printing
Empire attracted the industry's who's who to a spectacularly colourful
event at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre for the presentation
of 107 awards in 36 categories.
Guests
were seated in ancient splendour among decorated tables reminiscent of opulent
times from the pages of history. The opulence continued with the
presentation of 35 gold, 41 silver and 31 bronze PICA
awards presented to 32 companies.
Paul
Nieuwhof, the WA general manager for Printing
Industries says, "It was a hoot. We had a record 490 people
attend and a high level of entries. "It all went very well and in the past
couple of days we have had nothing but accolades from people saying
how great it was.".
The
MC combination of John McNaught and Dixie Marshall provided the crowd with
a professional and upbeat awards presentation. Printing Industries
national president Peter Lane
spoke to the crowd and welcomed everyone to a night of excellence and
celebration of the industry.
As
with previous years Western Australian company Scott Print walked away with the
most number of awards – 16 in total – five Gold, six Silver and five
Bronze. Advance Press took home nine awards – five Gold, one Silver and
three Bronze.
Andrew Neale, General Manager Scott Print said, "To
follow on from last year's fantastic result is a great achievement for Scott
Print.
Entertainment
was provided by 100% Kylie , which was particularly appreciated by the
menfolk, with a Kylie Minogue song and dance show. The Ladies were also
well catered for via the accompanying male dancers.
The
night also hosted a number of special industry awards including a Gold
PICA awarded to Prism Grafix for Prism Grafix Calendar 2008 – Vintage
Series. The Gold PICA has not been awarded in Western
Australia for several years.
Printing
Industries recognition award was presented to Nita Sams from
Fast Finishing Services for continued service to the industry over many
years.
LIA
Graduate of the Year went to Sonya Hoffman from Fast Finishing Services.
The CPI Golf day trophy was won by Alan Bamford and Brad Hall from
Dataflow Business Systems.
Appearing
for the first year in their new format, the Environment Awards which are
awarded to companies who are currently undertaking Printing Industries
WA green stamp program, also made a big splash.
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