ABOUT WPO/ENTRIES Key Personnel


The President, Tom Schneider, is based in the USA and the General Secretary, Keith Pearson, is based in South Africa. WPO has several Vice Presidents who serve on the Executive Committee, Luciana Pellegrino, Brazil, specialising in Marketing, Dr Gordon Stewart, UK, specialising in Education and Roger Bagge, Finland, specializing in Sustainability.


Tom Schneider, CPP, President of WPO tom.s@issi-texas.com


Thomas Schneider is President of the World Packaging Organisation and a Member of the Packaging Hall of Fame. He is a Certified Packaging Professional, a member of the College of Fellows and Honorary Life Member of the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) in the United States. He was active in IoPP’s national Organisation for many years, including serving as President and Chairman.


Keith Pearson, General Secretary glacier@tiscali.co.za


Keith has been involved with the packaging industry for over forty years having experience in a number of converting processes. Served on the board of the Institute of Packaging South Africa for many years and is the immediate past


President of WPO. Played a leadership role in the development of packaging institutes in a number of African countries.”


Luciana Pellegrino, Vice President luciana.pellegrino@abre.org.br


At WPO we understand that packaging reflects in a very precise way the cultural, social and economic aspects of a society. Each one of us, as board members, bring our own vision and experience to achieve one single goal, promote better packaging coping with the market criterias and social and environmental requirements. The growth of the FMCG market brings more demands on packaging efficiency over its practical and emotional performance. Packaging became the icon of each brand and a strong tool to captivate consumers. Innovation is a path to be ever pursued and packaging as a marketing tool, brings to our industry new possibilities of adding real value with smart, fun and useful solutions.


Gordon Stewart, Vice President gordon.stewart@iom3.org


I am the WPO Vice President responsible for education. This is an area in which I have spent all my professional life and to which I am passionately committed. The role of the WPO in promoting education in packaging, especially with those communities across the globe where the need for better packaging is so critical to social and economic development, is perhaps the most important part of the WPO’s work. Many who enter WorldStar may not realise that this generates revenue for the WPO to support its education initiatives and therefore we are extremely grateful to all WorldStar entrants for their continuing help.


Liliam Benzi, Press office ldbcom@uol.com.br


Liliam is President of LDB Comunicação Empresarial, a company specialising in Communication and International Packaging Business Development. She works as PR for WPO and also as the editor of its official’s publications: Inside WPO and WPN (World Packaging News). All the Press Releases and contact with the international press are her responsibility, as well as the design of communication strategies to enhance and promote the WPO brand around the world.


WPO General Secretariat: Kellen Company


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Rachel Brooks, WorldStar Administrator rachel.brooks@iom3.org


Rachel has been co-ordinating the WorldStar Awards for the last three years. She also manages the UK Starpack Awards programmes for Schools, Students and Industry. Outside of work she enjoys modern jive dancing, badminton and just being Grandma to her two 10 month old grandsons, not twins!


Pat Farrey, WPO Secretariat wpo@kellencompany.com


Patrick (Pat) Farrey is the Executive Director of Institute of Packaging Professionals, the largest individual membership Organisation serving the global packaging industry. IoPP represents both packagers and packaging suppliers across all end-use markets. Pat manages the twenty-three person staff and business operations from the Institutes' Chicago and London offices. Prior to joining IoPP, Pat served as Vice President of a trade magazine publishing company, overseeing four national packaging journals. Pat is a lifelong Chicago native, where he and his three boys still currently reside.


ENTRIES - BY CATEGORY


Beverages.............................................78 entries, 41 winners Electronics...........................................18 entries, 11 winners Food......................................................80 entries, 42 winners Health and Beauty..............................33 entries, 15 winners Household..............................................15 entries, 4 winners Pharmaceutical and Medical.............24 entries, 11 winners Other....................................................68 entries, 35 winners


ENTRIES & WINNERS - BY COUNTRY


Australia....................................................6 winners, 7 entries Austria.......................................................3 winners, 7 entries Brazil.......................................................7 winners, 15 entries China.......................................................9 winners, 22 entries Czech Republic........................................4 winners, 6 entries Denmark........................................................................1 entry Finland......................................................2 winners, 2 entries France ........................................................1 winner, 4 entries Germany................................................9 winners, 19 entries Hungary....................................................4 winners, 7 entries India......................................................28 winners, 44 entries Indonesia..................................................3 winners, 5 entries Israel..........................................................2 winners, 9 entries Italy.................................................................................1 entry Japan.....................................................12 winners, 25 entries Korea........................................................7 winners, 7 entries Latvia.............................................................1 winner, 1 entry Mexico....................................................2 winners, 14 entries Netherlands..............................................2 winners, 2 entries Norway.....................................................1 winners, 2 entries Poland.......................................................2 winners, 2 entries Serbia.............................................................1 winner, 1 entry Singapore................................................9 winners, 10 entries Slovakia...........................................................................1 entry Spain.......................................................5 winners, 12 entries Sri Lanka...................................................2 winners, 2 entries Sweden .....................................................2 winners, 3 entries Switzerland.............................................5 winners, 16 entries Turkey.....................................................7 winners, 39 entries Ukraine.......................................................1 winner, 6 entries United Kingdom.................................13 winners, 14 entries United States..........................................9 winners, 10 entries


2013 | Worldstar Awards | 5 About WPO


WPO – World Packaging Organisation is a non-profit, non-governmental, international federation of packaging institutes, associations, federations and other interested parties including corporations and trade associations. Founded in 1968 on the occasion of the second Japanese International Packaging Exhibition, the World Packaging Organisation is made up today of member organisations from 45 countries. Many members are packaging institutes; other significant members are national or regional trade Organisations that promote their countries’ packaging products. In recent years, WPO has focused on packaging in developing nations. With headquarters in Illinois (USA), the entity promotes projects and actions aligned to its main slogan “Better Quality of Life through Better Packaging for More People.” With that mission in mind, WPO encourages the development of packaging technology, science and engineering; stimulation of international trade; and the advancement of packaging education and training.


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