Brands and suppliers were also recognized with Gold, Silver, Bronze, and more awards, in 10 categories: Health & Beauty, Fragrance, Gift Sets, Color Cosmetics, Personal Care, Graphics, Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage, Promotional and Household & Industrial.
Many of the winning brands and suppliers were at the banquet celebration - view the videos filmed live during the event at the links below.
The top prize - Package of the Year - was awarded to Estee Lauder Companies and Qualipac-Pochet for Estee Lauder's Re Nutriv Ultimate Diamond Cream.
All of the winners are featured in the slideshow above.
The Judges
The winners were chosen from more than 100 entries by the NJPEC Board and Package of the Year Committee. Judges met at Arcade Beauty's corporate headquarters in Manhattan.
The judges included Beauty Packaging's publisher, Jay Gorga, and the following executives:
Jill Hilton, Director Package Development, Estee Lauder Companies; Shahin Guity, Director of Global Sourcing, Avon; Leslie Artesona, Package Development, Estee Lauder Companies; Gary Montalbano, VP Package Development, Estee Lauder Companies; Lauren Garcia, Student Judge, Kean University; Anthony Garaguso, Engineering Technology Manager, Johnson & Johnson; Phillip Tarrant, VP Package Development, Coty; Brian Henry, Packaging Development, Fresh; Erica Wyosoki, Student Judge, Rutgers University; and Elyse Pyo, Designer, The Public Society.
View the Videos at these Links - Live from the Event
Beauty Packaging's Jamie Matusow interviewed the following executives, live from the 2015 NJPEC Package of the Year Awards -view the videos at the following links:
- NJPEC's president, John Ziemba, gave a run-down of the awards program, while NJPEC's Co-chairs said that innovation marked this year's entries.
- Talking about the Origins win is David Maus, executive director, global packaging, Origins, The Estee Lauder Companies, with Quadpack's Eileeen McCardle.
- Jansy Packaging's Brad Zaikov and L'Oreal's package engineer Jeremy Dahl discuss the design of the YSL Black Opium gift set - and Dahl stuck around to talk about Viktor & Rolf's Flower Bomb winning the Gold in the Gift Set category.
- Metal Dynamics dishes on how its bottle made it into the Grammy gift bag.
- Topline's Ralph Devito discusses its Market Impact win and package for Redken;
- Phoenix Color's Meghan Shupe and Trudy Mullendor discuss its winning carton.
- SGD's Michel Levisse and Sheherazade Chamlou show off the company's four wins in the fragrance category.
- Color Optics by Arcade's Joe Cicci discusses its Gold win in Graphics.
- HCT Group's Christina Vecere talks about its Color Cosmetics win.
- Finally, Beauty Packaging's Matusow met with the team at Albea, including Doug Jackson, Alicia Jean Pierre and Daphne Da Silva about winning two awards, for Crabtree & Evelyn and Babyganics.
Here's the complete list of videos covering the 2015 NJPEC Package of the Year Awards, live from the event.