BPMA New Product Awards Winners 2023

30th January 2023

The British Promotional Merchandise Association have just held their annual awards dinner to celebrate the exceptional innovation, expertise and quality available in the market today.

Below is a round-up of the products that came out top in each category. Some of these winning products are already available to view in our online store and links to these are provided below, but we can provide you with any of these products expertly customised with your brand or message!

Apparel Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Rab Downpour Waterproof Eco Jacket (pictured) Built from recycled 2.5-layer Pertex® Revolve fabric with a fluorocarbon-free DWR treatment, the Rab Downpour Eco Jacket is Rab's first ever mono-polymer waterproof jacket. It uses a polyester outer and membrane, which means that, in addition to being 100% recycled, it also has the future potential to be fully recycled at the end of its life.

Gold Winner: Hiker Jacket with Recycled Shell

Silver Winner: Reversible Bucket Hat with All Over Custom Print

Award Gifting Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Oak Column Award with Metal Wrap (pictured) Solid real oak wood award with printed aluminium wrap. Made in the UK from sustainably sourced wood supplies. Hand-finished with satin wood oil & wax.

Gold Winner: President Award - 3D Engraved & Printed

Silver Winner: Real Wood Pillar Awards

Bag & Folder Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Green Gold Recycled PET Tote Bag (pictured) Introducing the trailblazing Ninga Recycled PET Recron® GreenGold Tote Bag made from 100% recycled plastic water bottles. A stylish, robust and eco-friendly shopper, each bag is embedded with tracer technology for forward and backward traceability, providing full product transparency.

Gold Winner: Salvage Recycled Shopper Tote Bag

Silver Winner: COMO recycled PET A4/A5 Folder and Binder Range

Drinkware Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: H2O Active Eco Tempo Sport Bottle (pictured) A single-wall sports bottle featuring an ergonomic design, made from Prevented Ocean Plastic. Plastic is collected within 50km of an ocean coastline or major waterway that feeds into the ocean. Then sorted and transformed into high-quality and food-safe recycled plastic.

Gold Winner: K2 650ml bottle

Silver Winner: Topl Reusable Coffee Cup

Food & Drink Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Party Cake Custom Iced With Your Design (pictured) 12 portion cake, handmade with full coverage icing print. Print applied on all faces, including top and sides. Each cake is packaged in a presentation gift box, designed to be sent via Royal Mail or Courier.

Gold Winner: Eat My Logo Cake Jars

Health & Travel Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: The Little Brown Tube Wellbeing Kit (pictured) A handy, relaxing wellbeing kit in a cardboard tube, including sleep balm, sleep mask, roll on pulse point and natural relaxing foam bath. The perfect set to help people through the challenges of the last 2 years.

Gold Winner: Charm

Silver Winner: PopCoin Trolley Keyring

Innovative Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Direct to Paper - DTP Transfers by tranSMART (a more eco-friendly print transfer process)

Gold Winner: HIP rPET Bottle Bag

Silver Winner: MeetAIR Home Conference Speaker (pictured) All the benefits of a lifestyle music speaker and the work benefits of a home/office conference speaker, making video calls professional, music easy to listen too and promotion / gifting a dream. Made from a mix of cork and RPET the eco story is very strong.

Stationery Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Cafeco Recycled A5 Wellness Journal (pictured) Cafeco A5 Wellness Journal in a range of contemporary pastel colours. The journal developed to encourage users to catalogue wellness. An easy-to-use tool for encouraging emotional and physical wellbeing and balance between work and home life.

Gold Winner: Impact Soft Cover Stone Paper Notebook

Silver Winner: Leuchtturm Change Journal

Sustainable Product Innovation of the Year

Platinum Winner: Impact Aware rPET Rolltop Backpack (pictured) The Impact 300D RPET rolltop backpack, made with AWARE™ tracer. With AWARE™, the use of genuine recycled fabric materials and water reduction impact claims are guaranteed, by using the AWARE disruptive physical tracer and blockchain technology. Save water and use genuine recycled fabrics.

Gold Winner: Mr BIO Smart (NFC) Charge Cable

Sustainable Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Recycled and biodegradable rHIPS.b plastics. a revolutionary new material. This Is plastic – but not as you know it: no virgin material used. No deforestation needed to grow ‘eco’ materials. Fully Biodegradeable: Unlike other popular bioplastics the material does not require extremely particular conditions to biodegrade.

Gold Winner: Falusi Recycled PolyCotton Tote Bag (pictured)

Silver Winner: Recyco+ Notebooks

Technology Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Mr Bio Fast Charge Cable (pictured) Universally compatible charging cable made from recycled plastic / RPET mix supplied in FSC card packaging. Supplied with patented dual charging plug for USB-C or USB power input. NEW for 2022, now with NFC chip that can be programmed to open a web browser on the users phone.

Gold Winner: Venture Travel Adapter

Silver Winner: Recycled Paper Charging Pad

UK Made Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Miyo Mix and Match Lunch Box (pictured) The MIYO lunch box you can truly make it your own! A practical lunch box ideal for school, work or picnics anywhere. With one or two 700 ml capacity bases, ideal for fruit, salads, sandwiches and much more. Follow simple steps to choose your base colours, lid colour and recycled PET band.

Gold Winner: A5 Business Journal UK Made Eco Notebook

Silver Winner: Aluminium Clutch Pin Badges

Work & Play Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: D-Base Speaker (pictured) The D-Base speaker. A retail quality Bluetooth speaker designed with wide reaching appeal and providing a high end corporate gift or merchandise product, both practical and highly desirable. The D-Base, suitable for both gifts and rewards and merchandising schemes.

Gold Winner: Foosball Table Cooler

Silver Winner: Swiss Card Lite

Writing Instrument Product of the Year

Platinum Winner: Karst 5-pack 2B Woodless Graphite Pencils (pictured) A set of 5 solid graphite Woodless Pencils. Made of 100% pure graphite with 2B hardness, the best lead grade for Karst paper products. With matte coating to keep fingers clean.

Gold Winner: DS5 Shell

Silver Winner: Eternal Bamboo Pencil With Eraser

Find These Products below...

Our team can source any of the products mentioned above. As always if there's any product you can't find in our online collection just speak to us and we'll find you the best supplier and arrange all customisation: