Winners announced at Stationers’ Innovation Excellence Awards 2025

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The winners of the Innovation Excellence Awards 2025 have been announced at a ceremony at the historic Stationers’ Hall in London on Friday 17 October.

The innovator of the year award went to FabLittleBag, for its sustainable, discreet and eco friendly period disposal bags designed to tackle plastic pollution in waterways and end taboos around menstrual waste. The award was presented by Dr Vanessa Lawrence, former director general and CEO of Ordnance Survey and founding co-chair of the United Nations Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management.

Now in its 11th year, the Innovation Excellence Awards celebrate outstanding achievements across the UK’s communications and content industries. This year’s judges again sought innovations that demonstrated originality, commercial impact, sustainability, and positive social or environmental benefit.

Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB told attendees, ‘Innovation is one of the driving forces of progress. It requires courage, creativity and a willingness to look at the world differently – qualities that every winner here today embodies.’

The 2025 winners are:

• Business process: Aura Consultants for e-halo, a digital platform helping brands manage and optimise packaging portfolios, providing real time recyclability, compliance and carbon impact tracking.

• Communications, including marketing: City of London’s Leadenhall Market & Barley Communications for ‘Revitalising a Heritage Brand’, an imaginative campaign transforming Leadenhall Market into a vibrant weekend destination while celebrating its historic identity.

• Customer experience: Interflex Group for Quality Street, a fully recyclable, paper based twist wraps for Quality Street chocolates.

• Education technology: VoxBlock for VoxBlock, a screen free audiobook system supporting literacy and independent listening in children through tactile, child friendly technology.

• Product design: FabLittleBag for FabLittleBag, sustainably sourced, easy to use disposal bags for period products – combining thoughtful design with environmental purpose.

• Start up: xigxag Ltd for xigxag digital audiobook gift cards, an innovative platform giving physical retailers access to the digital audiobook market through sustainable, subscription free technology.

• Innovator of the year 2025: FabLittleBag.

Kate Howell and Vida Barr-Jones, co-chairs of the awards, said: ‘This year’s winners show that innovation is not just about technology – it is about people. The most powerful ideas are those that make life better, fairer and more sustainable. Every one of our winners should be immensely proud of what they have achieved.’