This year we were excited to be a part of the Stationers’ Company Innovation Excellence Awards 2017, which aim to recognise ‘the key role the Communications and Content industries play in the UK economy, highlights outstanding innovation in the sector and offers the opportunity to share best practice’. Winners of the individual categories were:Overall Innovator of the Year went to the Publishers Licensing Society, which also won the new Digital Technology Application category.Social Development: Calibre Audio Library, a national charity, for its CALdownload.Business Development: Dennis Publishing for sustaining a publishing business by successfully linking printed and internet magazine titles to a trading app.Creative Communication: Hobs Group for its time-sequencing 3D printing technology.Novel Manufacturing: Müller Martini for InfiniTrim.Designs for Retail Markets: Parkside Flexibles for a new recloseable share bag that represents a step change in packaging and is ideal for the snack market.We were pleased to attend the Awards ceremony, and provided a prize to the winner of each category of free consultation time with our team.