WPO – World Packaging Organisation is a non-profit, non-governmental, international federation of packaging institutes, associations, federations and other interested parties including corporations and trade associations. The WPO secretariat is located in Stockholm,Sweden,and is hosted by Innventia – one of the world’s leading R&D companies in the fields of pulp, paper, graphic media, packaging and logistics (www.innventia.com).

Press Release

WorldStar Packaging Awards 2015 is open for entries

The deadline is October 10th, 2014

Chicago (US), September 2014 WPO(World Packaging Organization) announced that the entries for WorldStar Packaging Awards are open and the deadline to send the entries is October 10th, 2014.“We encourage every WPO member across the Globe to help us promote the biggest and most important global packaging award”, alerts Thomas Schneider, President of WPO. Packages eligible for WorldStar are those that have already received a national award recognized by WPO. “In its 46thyear, WorldStar is one of the major events of WPO and last year attracted 249 entries from 35 countries around the world. The aim, for our next competition, is to increase the number of entries and countries participating”, adds Schneider.

For general enquiries on WorldStar Packaging Awards contact rachel.brooks@iom3.org or visit www.worldpackaging.org. The important dates regarding the Award are:

10 October 2014 - Closing date for entries 19 November 2014, Sri Lanka - Judging takes place May 2015 - Awards Presentations and Cocktail Reception, Milan, Italy Press information, pictures and interviews request: Liliam Benzi – ldbcom@uol.com.br - +55 11 99989-1597