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The Benson Group is the UK's leading privately owned printed carton supplier, producing packaging product for both the food and pharmaceutical industries over four UK sites. Benson Group has been in the business of manufacturing food-packaging products for over 85 years, with its origins in servicing the Leicestershire shoe and hosiery industries. Recently recognised for our investment in the packaging industry we were awarded packaging company of 2008 by Packaging News.

Benson Group creates carton board packaging for many well-known companies, brands and retailers. Key account clients across the Group include GlaxoSmithKline, Bakkavor, and all leading supermarket chains. We produce approximately 140 million cartons a month across four sites. As a result of continued investment in people and plant, the company has grown to now achieve annual sales in the region of £85 million. www.bensongroup.co.uk

BPI (British Polythene Industries) has developed over the last decade to strategically become the largest producer of polythene film products within the UK and Europe. Today there are seven highly-focused operating businesses within the group, manufacturing a wide variety of products and services. BPI has evolved into one of the most responsive and dynamic polythene film businesses in the world and is a major player in what is rapidly becoming a truly global industry. www.bpipoly.com

Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd is a major manufacturer of soft drinks brands including Pepsi, 7UP, Tango, and Robinsons and is famous for its novel advertising and marketing campaigns (3 out of the best top 10 adverts of all time). Innovation in product development and packaging design keeps Britvic at the leading edge of its sector. www.britvic.com

Boxer and The Marketing Store

The Marketing Store is the strategic marketing services agency behind highly visible and influential campaigns created for major brands as diverse as Vodafone, Sony, McDonald's, Mars, Shell, Britvic and CPW. The Marketing Store applies inspirational thinking and skilled management processes to activate brands and to deliver highly effective and engaging marketing campaigns to consumers. We are specialists in promotional marketing and have deep expertise in partnerships & licensing, retail marketing, digital, promotional product; all the techniques required to activate brands with consumers.  We call the process and thinking, which influences everything we do, Inspiration: Applied.

Boxer is the sister agency of The Marketing Store, specialising in brand and design.  We like to think of ourselves as brand interpreters, translating brand strategy into a design solution that creates stand-out in the marketplace. We believe that design has a responsibility; to deliver the brand promise to consumers at the same time as solving real business problems.  Put simply, we create design that works. Combining our experience in brand, packaging and retail we have answered global and local briefs for clients such as McDonald's, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, GSK, InBev and Tesco.  www.themarketingstore.com   www.boxercreative.co.uk

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with nearly 500 sparkling and still brands. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy the Company's beverages at a rate of nearly 1.6 billion servings a day. www.coca-cola.com/index.jsp

Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) is the leading organisation working on behalf of the UK paper-related industry. CPI represents the paper chain from the recovery of used paper through papermaking to conversion of corrugated cases. www.paper.org.uk/starpack/studentawards.html

DS Smith Packaging is a division of DS Smith Plc, a £1.6 billion turnover company, employing over 11,000 people in 16 countries. Their network of manufacturing sites includes conventional corrugated, speciality and decorative, heavy-duty, sheet feeding and sheet plants. Product options include tailor-made point-of-purchase displays, high volume cost-effective fmcg packaging, heavy-duty corrugated packaging - in fact every conceivable form of corrugated packaging. www.dssmith-packaging.com/

Logoplaste UK Ltd is not a company of products but solutions. They are leaders in the plastic packaging market, providing an overall service for packaging research and development, in-house production and quality systems, backed by technical support and advice. They work with leading brands in body care, food and beverages, home care, luboils and preforms PET. www.logoplaste.com

Morrisons is the UK's fourth largest food retailer with over 400 stores and our business is mainly food and grocery - the weekly shop. Uniquely, we source and process most of the fresh food that we sell though our own manufacturing facilities, giving us close control over provenance and quality; and we have more people preparing more food in store than any other retailer.  www.morrisons.co.uk 

The Packaging Society, a division of IOM3 (The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining) is now in its 47th year of running the prestigious Starpack Awards and this year sees sponsorship of a new category, Packaging Personality of the Year. www.packagingsociety.org.uk

Smurfit Kappa specialise in the design, manufacture and supply of corrugated packaging. They continuously focus on innovative design and service solutions for some of the UK’s best known brands. www.smurfitkappa.co.uk

Tigerprint was formed in 1966 to supply exclusive cards and wrapping to Marks and Spencer.  Over time, we have developed a unique partnership with Marks and Spencer becoming sole supplier to the card shop and most recently, taking on full responsibility from design through to allocation and displays in store. www.tigerprint.uk.com

Full details of the Student Starpack Awards