The New Jersey Packaging Executives Club (NJPEC) announced the winners of this year’s competition for outstanding packaging design, at the 38th Annual Package of the Year (POY) Awards Gala on November 17th at The Madison Hotel in Morristown, NJ.

Nearly 50 products, graphics, and promotions were celebrated. The evening’s events included the awards presentation, a Tricky Tray, live music and an extensive display of all the celebrated packaging.

The annual NJPEC POY Awards recognize the year’s best packaging designs and innovations, and this year’s program saw an impressive number of submissions. An elite panel of judges—top packaging executives from a broad spectrum of industries and brands—selected the winners in 10 different categories. Packaging students named a Student’s Choice winner.

“This is an exciting night, where members of NJPEC and the entire industry come together to recognize and celebrate this year’s incredible achievements in packaging, design and engineering,” said Peter Gould, committee chair, of the NJPEC POY.

Here’s a look at some of the top cosmetic/fragrance winners of the coveted NJPEC POY Awards for 2016:

Batallure Beauty’s Robert Graham Blended Essence Launch Packaging, submitted by Metal Dynamics and Encore International, received awards for Package of the Year and Fragrance Gold.

Norell Elixir by Norell Parfums New York took home the Students’ Choice Award and the Silver Award for Fragrance.
Category winners of the Gold Award include:

Estée Lauder – Double Wear Cushion Stick by HCT Group for Color Cosmetics (see more on this stick in the Innovative Packaging article on page 44 in this issue.)

Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb Sequin Shadow Box for L’Oréal USA by Millenium3 Packaging Group took the top prize for Gift Sets.

Steven Klein Collection by HCT Group was recognized for Graphics.

The Health & Beauty honor went to Clinique Pep-Start for Clinique by Albéa for Health & Beauty; custom integral dispensing applicator by Lombardi Design and Manufacturing

Here’s a complete list of winners and photos.