INTRO

For over forty years the Australian Printing Awards has been recognising excellence at both a state (Printing Industry Creativity Awards – PICAs) and national (National Print Awards – NPAs) level, celebrating the achievements of our industry leaders, our teams across the work they deliver, our future generation and emerging leaders and the women across our industry.

As more and more is demanded of the Association, from skills and training to industry promotion and advocacy, packaging and labels covenants and legislative protections for our industry, ensuring the financial management of all projects is always under review. The Awards have been a costly enterprise for the association in previous years and one which at times has challenged its longevity. This survey is assessing all areas of the Awards, including ways the association can continue to recognise excellence, whilst maintaining a prudent financial oversight.

As we have evolved, so too should our Awards, and who better to guide us on how best to achieve that evolution than our members and industry stakeholders – you.

The following survey is looking to understand what you see as the fundamental characteristics of our industry awards and how we, as the peak body overseeing the awarding of excellence for our industry, can ensure our industry is recognised for all the deserved works that have been achieved, for many years to come.
ENTRIES

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* 1. Has your business submitted an entry to the Printing Industry Creativity Awards (PICAs)?

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* 2. Have you had a PICA entry be nominated in the NPAs (national) previously? (If you have never submitted an entry to the Awards, put N/A)

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* 3. Did you find the cost to submit an entry to the Awards expensive (historically $80.00 per entry)? (If you have never submitted an entry to the Awards, put N/A)

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* 4. How much would you be willing to spend on a single entry into the Awards?

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* 5. Would you be more likely to enter more if there was a discount offered?

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* 6. If you answered YES, what would this look like?

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* 7. Are you likely to participate in the Awards in the future?

AWARDS + RECOGNITION

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* 8. Given most industry Awards for national industries such as ours are national awards, would you see merit in evolving the print industry awards to a national program?

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* 9. Does your business only supply to one state or is your work multi-state?

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* 10. How meaningful are the Awards to you and your business?

ENSURING LONGEVITY + AFFORDABILITY

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* 11. Ensuring the funding of the Awards are financially sustainable, the association is reviewing all areas of the Award costings. One area which could minimise expense, however, maximise sustainability is the scheduling of the Awards in alignment with PacPrint. With this in mind, would you object to running the Awards every two years?

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* 12. There are currently thirty-two Award categories with Gold, Silver, Bronze taking the awards to ninety-nine each year. The categories are specific in all instances to quality and craft across industry sector categories. The Awards are state based and then nominated to national with historical dominance by companies in the national awards. Judges are from the suppliers of the industry and items are judged by physical entry sample supplied. With this in mind, please provide your feedback to the following table:

  Strongly Agree Agree Neither Agree nor Disagree Disagree Strongly Disagree
There too many categories, not everyone can be a Winner
The categories need to be refined to make sense in a modern industry
The categories should be about excellence not only quality, some jobs are delivered with operational excellence but not always a bespoke piece
Building a national award program with an even playing field for all states, not just those with the most entries is fairer for all
Judges could also come from other groups outside of suppliers only
There are enough categories and keeping the awards focused on craft is better than expanding to excellence. Quality is excellence
Suppliers are best placed to Judge the Awards
I like the State based Awards being first then the National Print Awards
I am comfortable with the Awards being run as they are at a loss to the Association. It should be a priority project for the industry

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* 13. Please rate your level of satisfaction with the following aspects of the Awards:

  Very Satisfied Satisfied Neither Satisfied nor Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Very Dissatisfied
Entry Process
Cost for Entry
Judging Process
Gala Event

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* 14. Is there anything else you would like us to know, all feedback and suggestions will be included in the considerations for the team and the Board?

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* 15. If you would like to discuss your feedback further, please provide the best contact for the team to reach out to you and schedule a discussion time.