The New South Wales PICA Award entries are now open, with entry open until 10 September for printing industry hopefuls who wish to be featured in the 2012 Awards.
The Employers Mutual 2012 Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards (PICA), which will be held on 2 November at the Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, will be running with under the theme of ‘the Power of Print.’
Printing businesses will have until 10 September this year to submit their entries for both the Business Categories and Print Categories of the awards.
Printing Industries CEO and NSW general manager, Bill Healey (pictured), says entry forms are being printed for distribution over the coming weeks.
“Hopefully companies have already begun putting aside their best work to showcase our 2012 theme – the Power of Print – and we can expect to see some very innovative, high quality entries,” says Healey. “Based on feedback we received last year, the forms have been modified to make them easier to use. They have been divided into two distinctive sections to keep the print and business categories separated.
“There have also been changes to the wording of some print categories making them more explicit which is intended to help companies to correctly categorise individual entries.”
Healey also welcomed the ongoing support from Employers Mutual as the naming rights partner for this year’s event.
“It is very heartening when you have Australia’s leading workers compensation claims manager supporting your event for the second successive year,” he says. “Our NSW partner support list is developing well with many companies already signed on.”
Included in this year’s NSW partner list is, platinum partner Media Super; gold partners Applied Training Solutions (ATS) and the NSW Government Office of Environment and Heritage; silver partner Kodak; bronze partners Heidelberg, Bottcher Systems, Quote & Print, BJ Ball Papers and Konica Minolta and pewter partners MAS National, SkilledForce and Currie Group.
“I encourage companies that have yet to confirm their support to contact us as soon as possible to maximise the opportunity partnering with NSW’s highest profile activity for 2012,” says Healey.
NSW PICA will be held on Friday 2 November 2012 at the Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour.
The Call for Entries brochure can be downloaded and the Entry forms are available here.