Think Publishing was the big winner at the PPA independent publishers awards yesterday scooping three prizes including the coveted award of independent publishing company of the year.
The publisher also collected the customer magazine of the year prize for its magazine, Beer, as Think’s Tilly Boulter collected the individual achievement award.
Think Publishing beat off competition from Shortlist Media which collected two awards. Its Shortlist title was named consumer magazine of the year while Shortlist magazine’s Chris Deacon won the designer of the year prize.
In their sixth year the awards reward independent publishers with a turnover of £7 million or below.
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The awards were presented by Dragons’ Den star and entrepreneur James Caan at a lunchtime ceremony in London yesterday.
The winners in full:
Brand extension of the year
Winner: Procurement Leaders, Sigaria
Highly Commended: Athletics Weekly, Descartes Publishing
Launch/re-launch of the year
Winner: Communicate Magazine, Cravenhill Publishing
Online brand of the year
Winner: Total Telecom, Terrapinn Holdings
The individual achievement award
Winner: Tilly Boulter, Think Publishing
Designer of the year
Winner: Chris Deacon, ShortList Media
Editor of the year
Winner: Gwyn Roberts, Pageant Media
Business magazine of the year
Winner: Procurement Leaders, Sigaria
Consumer magazine of the year
Winner: ShortList, ShortList Media
Customer magazine of the year
Winner: BEER, Think Publishing
Team of the year
Winner: New Start staff team, New Start Publishing
Independent publishing company of the year
Winner: Think Publishing
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