Manipal Wins Seventh Company of the Year at PrintWeek Awards 2026
17 October 2026: Manipal Technologies won its seventh PrintWeek Company of the Year title at the PrintWeek Awards 2026, held on 7 October 2026 at The Westin Mumbai Powai Lake. The 16th edition recognised Indian printing and packaging businesses for business performance and production quality, alongside honours for customer service and students.
The programme covered 32 categories: 10 Performance Awards, 19 Quality Awards and three Special Industry Awards, including Student of the Year. Twelve categories had joint winners, while Sakshi Sonawane received the student award.
Manipal’s record at the PrintWeek Awards 2026
Manipal Global Print Solutions confirms in its official awards record that the 2026 result marked its seventh Company of the Year Prism and second consecutive win. In a recorded message, Gautham Pai of Manipal Technologies credited the team’s passion, innovation and hard work.
Those consecutive wins follow Parksons Packaging’s 2024 win in the same category.
Key performance and special award winners
The organiser’s results named the following winners among the business-performance and special categories:
| Award | Winner |
|---|---|
| Small Company of the Year | Viessta Papers |
| Book Education Company of the Year | Brilliant Printers |
| Packaging Company of the Year | SB-Constantia |
| Packaging Company of the Year, Boutique | Printmann Offset |
| Packaging Company of the Year, Flexible Packaging | Parakh Agro Industries |
| Export Company of the Year | Replika Press |
| Factory of the Year | EPL |
| Customer Service Company of the Year | ITC PPB |
Seven companies each collected two awards: EPL, Letra Graphix, Brilliant Printers, Archana Advertising, Silverpoint Press, Spectrum Scan and Trigon Digipack.
Shared honours across quality categories
Letra Graphix and Trigon Digipack shared Digital Printer of the Year, while Any Graphics and Letra Graphix shared Label Printer of the Year. Archana Advertising and Silverpoint Press jointly won Fine Art Printer of the Year.
In packaging, TCPL Packaging and Dot Printers shared the food and beverage converter award. HBD Packaging and Trigon Digipack won in FMCG; Parksons Packaging and Art O Print shared the pharmaceutical category.
What do the awards assess?
The organiser’s published judging criteria distinguish business performance from finished print quality. Performance entries require audited financial statements and supporting documents, rather than print samples alone. The financial year under review ran from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.
Quality entries generally require four different commercial print jobs, while the Innovative categories require one sample per entry. Earlier coverage of the 2023 awards judging explains how jurors assessed coded samples with company identities withheld.
Exports and environmental accountability
In his welcome address, Ashish Bhushan, director of Haymarket Media (India), argued that Indian exporters must win business through reliability, compliance and capability rather than price alone. He also said this year’s entries included audited carbon inventories, science-based targets and third-party assurance.
EPL and Lovely Offset Printers shared Green Company of the Year, Large, while Lipi International won the SME category. Environmental responsibility also featured at the 2024 sustainable printing conference in Ayodhya.
Tushar Dhote, President of the All India Federation of Master Printers, delivered the keynote, calling for a more technologically advanced and internationally connected Indian print industry. Luke Kenny hosted the ceremony.
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