MCC WINS PRINTER OF THE YEAR

Multi-Color Corporation Australia took out Print21 Printer of the Year Award for its numerous winners, finalists and highly commended placings at the refreshed National Print Awards, as the industry gathered for a night of celebration for the 40th time.

Hosted in Sydney by the Visual Media Association, the evening was a resounding success with 400 printing industry colleagues united to recognise the craftsmanship, innovation, and execution of commercial print, digital print, packaging, and visual media.

This year’s theme, Celebrate + Elevate, was cheered with applause that greeted each of the 25 Awards of Excellence recipients and the nine Major Awards winners. There were nine Major Awards. Guests from across the country came together to create a positive atmosphere alive with congratulations, and a shared respect for all nominees and winners from the crowd.

The 2025 Major Awards honoured Zaidee Jackson, Ball & Doggett with the Ricoh Australia Women in Industry Award and Isobel Clark, Flying Colours who received the Konica Minolta and Plockmatic Group Emerging Talent of the Year. They both received an exclusive professional development opportunity – a fully funded trip to the United Kingdom to attend the Power of Print conference and an international networking tour, this November.

Eckersley Print Group was awarded the Environmental Sustainability Achievement for its contribution to environmental sustainability in the industry. Southern Impact received the Workplace Culture + Wellbeing Achievement award, and Cameron Ellis, City of Armadale received the award for Industry Employee of the Year. The Industry Supplier of the Year winner was Henryk Kraszewski.

The 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award was announced posthumously to Geoff Selig of IVE Group by CEO of VMA, Kellie Northwood who spoke of Geoff’s approachability, energy, passion and dedication to the industry. The Selig family were in attendance and accepted the award on behalf of Geoff to a standing ovation. Jane Selig, Geoff’s wife with Geoff’s brother Paul Selig delivered a moving tribute. “Geoff loved people and was an extremely compassionate person,” Paul Selig shared. “He knew unequivocally that executing a brilliant strategic business plan was of little use if you did not have the right people and the right culture in the business. He was generous to a fault, a hard worker, he had a strong and strategic mind, and he was a skilled negotiator. He invariable guarded loyalty from all who worked closely with him, born out of his personal attributes and his approach to business, where everyone in the business mattered.”

To acknowledge and celebrate over four decades of dedication to the print industry the Industry Service Award honoured Wayne Robinson, editor of Print21.