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2009 Starpack Awards - 50 years on!The Starpack Awards scheme has been running since 1960 and celebrates its 50th year in 2009. Starpack is the premier UK annual scheme recognising innovation in packaging design and technology. Run by IOP: The Packaging Society, Starpack constitutes the UK packaging industry's most prestigious awards, aiming to help raise packaging standards in the UK by rewarding and encouraging creativity. They are considered an integral part of the packaging industry, and the culmination of the Awards at the annual Packaging Industry Dinner is a highlight of the packaging industry calendar. The 2009 dinner will be held at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London. The deadline for entries is 30 January 2009Starpack SummitThe Starpack Industry Awards form part of the Starpack Summit - a day long series of events including a high-level strategic business conference and the schools & student awards presentations, all taking place at the prestigious London headquarters of IOM3. The 2009 Starpack Packaging Summit - "Creating Consumer and Business Confidence Through Innovation" will look at how successful innovative developments can help create business opportunties in the face of the economic downturn. Details to be released shortly.Student Starpack AwardsIOP: The Packaging Society offers the Student Starpack Awards for potential professional designers. Entrants must be a bona fide part time or full time stduent at a college of art, college or university in the UK or Overseas. In the past the awards have led directly to a number of employment opportunities for successful entrants. The deadline for entries is 25 February 2009.New for 2009 is the graduate brief. This brief is open to individuals who graduated in the summer of 2008 from either full or part time design courses in the UK or Overseas.The deadline for entries is 25 February 2009. Schools Starpack AwardsThe Schools Starpack Award briefs provide excellent opportunties for Key Stage 3, 4 and AS Level. The deadline for entries is 25 February 2009. | Starpack Awards 2009Organised by
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Starpack is co-ordinated by IOP: The Packaging Society (a Division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining)
and IOM Communications Ltd
IOM Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
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