The New Jersey Packaging Executives Club (NJPEC) has announced the winners of its 41st annual Package of the Year (POY) Awards, which celebrates the year’s most outstanding packaging.

The winners will be honored at a gala celebration on Thursday, December 5, 2019 at The Madison Hotel in Morristown, NJ. See below for more information.

The highest honor this year — the 2019 Package of the Year winner — is the Pacollection by Paco Rabanne, a Puig brand. It is shown above. 

The Pacollection includes 6 fragrances in soft, flexible, “indestructable” metallized pouches in different colors, produced by TNT Global Manufacturing using a specialized process. The six fragrances are Strong Me, Crazy Me, Fabulous Me, Genius Me, Dangerous Me, and Erotic Me.

See more winners in the SLIDESHOW: 29 Winners at the NJPEC Package of the Year Awards 2019

See the complete winners’ list in the ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: All the Winners in the 2019 NJPEC Package of the Year Awards

An Elite Panel of Judges

An elite panel of judges, including Beauty Packaging’s publisher, Jay Gorga, critiqued all the submissions — voting to choose the winners, across numerous categories. Judges included top packaging executives from various industries and brands.

There were also five packaging student judges that voted to name Ellis Brooklyn–Marvelous Massage & Body Oil by SeaCliff Beauty as the Student’s Choice winner.

Peter Gould, co-committee Chair, of the NJPEC POY, says, “All the judges were impressed with the wide range of packaging ingenuity and brand impact displayed in this year’s competition. We look forward to awards night, when the entire industry comes together to recognize and celebrate this year’s incredible achievements in packaging, design, and engineering.”

The judges are shown in the photos above.

Pictured, left to right, are Joanne Vesper- L'Oreal/Ralph Lauren; George Toth, L’Oreal; Jill Hilton, Estee Lauder Companies; Anthony Garaguso, J&J; Brian Henry, Revlon; and Allan Hafkin, Estee Lauder Companies.

Shown in the second judges’ photo above, left to right, are Remon Zakhary, Bayer; Hala Doumit, student at Rutgers University; Ilona Dyrda, student at NYC College of Technology; Daniela Cruz and Tyriek Bryant, students at Rutgers University; Andrea Escobar,  EOS - Evolution of Smooth; Ali Mokhtari, DSM.

Additional judges not pictured are: Scott Roman, Estee Lauder Companies; Yeon Roh, Estee Lauder Companies; Gina Rokose, Aquent at Colgate-Palmolive; Jay Gorga, Beauty Packaging Magazine; Derek Schmidt, New Avon Company; Leslie Artesona, Strivectin; and Laura Kershaw, student at Rutgers.

Attend the NJPEC Package of the Year Awards Gala

Tickets are available here for the 41st Annual NJPEC POY Awards celebration on December 5, 2019.

For more information: email Peter Gould or email Karen Hadden-Wolf.

The evening will include a Tricky Tray, and the money raised through raffle tickets will help fund the NJPEC scholarship program.