30 Nov 2025 Gold Pack Winners 2025!

Over the past five decades, SA’s Gold Pack Awards have become the packaging industry’s premier stage to celebrate innovation and excellence…..

“These awards honour not just clever ideas, but packaging solutions that make a tangible impact – across supply chains, retail environments, and, ultimately, in the hands of the consumer,” writes Bill Marshall, Gold Pack Awards chairman, in the awards brochure.

“These are the concepts that solve problems elegantly, balance aesthetics with functionality and marry sustainability with practicality.

“Award-winning packaging doesn’t simply contain a product – It enhances it, communicates a brand’s story and often becomes part of the product experience itself. What makes a packaging concept award-worthy is not just brilliance in one dimension, but excellence across multiple.

“The stories in this brochure illustrate how packaging innovation thrives when diverse minds collaborate. Designers, material suppliers, printers, converters, brand owners, retailers, recyclers, PROs and even consumers all play a part.

“Our judges unpack each entry from multiple perspectives, evaluating materials science, practicality, supply chain impact, compliance, branding, print excellence and environmental footprint. Each winning solution demonstrates thoughtful execution, persistence and an unwavering commitment to creating meaningful change.”

“Behind every trophy is a story of risk, reinvention and refusal to stagnate. As well as responding to market pressures, these teams outran them.” Anton Pretorius, editor of PPM Magazine. See PPM’s Jan 2026 issue for all the fascinating back stories to these winners

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The top award and first in Non-Perishable Food!

Shoprite in-house team develops SA’s first recyclable 7kg potato bags

FOODStuff SA’s article on this development… The Shoprite Group has become the first SA retailer to roll out a fully recyclable potato bag that will divert mountains of waste from landfill and boost earnings for informal waste pickers – while saving millions on constructing specialised recycling plants.

Other winners in Non-Perishable Food!

Winners in Perishable Food!

Source: Institute of Packaging of SA (IPSA)