INNOVATION EXCELLENCE AWARDS
This is the ‘Award of Awards’ for the UK’s Communications and Content industries.
Celebrating the UK’s Communications & Content Innovators
This year’s Innovation Excellence Awards – the “Award of Awards” for the UK’s communications and content industries – returned to a sell-out audience at the historic Stationers’ Hall on 17 October 2025.
The top honour of Innovator of the Year 2025 was awarded to FabLittleBag for its thoughtfully designed, eco-friendly period-product disposal bags – a bold innovation tackling both plastic pollution and social taboos. The award was presented by our Guest of Honour, Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, who emphasised the vital role of creativity and courage in shaping our industries.
Now in its 11th year, the Awards are open to all sectors across communications and content – from packaging, paper-making and print to publishing, stationery, digital-born businesses and beyond. The judging panel assessed entries on originality, commercial impact, sustainability and positive social or environmental benefit.
Winners 2025 at a glance
- Business Process – Aura Consultants, for e-halo, a platform enabling brands to manage recyclability, compliance and carbon-impact tracking.
- Communications (including Marketing) – City of London Leadenhall Market & Barley Communications, for Revitalising a Heritage Brand.
- Customer Experience – Interflex Group Ltd, for fully-recyclable paper-based twist-wraps for Quality Street.
- Education Technology – VoxBlock, for a screen-free audiobook system supporting children’s literacy through tactile design.
- Product Design – FabLittleBag, for its sustainable, discreet disposal-bag innovation for period products.
- Start-Up – xigxag Ltd, for digital-audiobook gift cards enabling physical retailers to access the digital market.
- Innovator of the Year 2025 – FabLittleBag.
Why these Awards matter
The Innovation Excellence Awards are supported by lead sponsors Picon and Pearson, and backed by industry partners including Hobbs the Printers, Enbecom and Castelnau. Through these Awards, The Stationers’ Company champions innovation in a UK sector worth over £65 billion annually, recognising and connecting the people and ideas at its heart.
Photography: https://adrianpope.jalbum.net/IEA2025/
Awards Brochure: Issuu Reader
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