Once again top executives connected to the postal industry waited with bated breath last night to see if their year’s hard work would be recognised and rewarded in front of 300 of their peers. The winners of the prestigious 2007 UK Mail Awards were announced at the annual gala dinner in London, attended by many of the leading representatives from the UK’s postal industry.

This was the fourth presentation ceremony of the Mail Awards, designed to recognise and reward best practice, across all parts of the industry. Entries were open to any UK-based postal operator, service provider or mailing agency. Presenting the awards at the Novotel London West yesterday, under eight different categories, was diving explorer and adventure journalist, Monty Halls.

All awards were selected by a distinguished panel of judges, independent of the sponsors and organisers, who met on Monday, the day before the ceremony itself, to determine the winning application from the many entries received in each category.

The winners of the UK Mail Awards 2007 are:

Corporate Social Responsibility – sponsored by Triangle
CitySprint for their Environmental Programme

Database Management - sponsored by Royal Mail
Datalytics for their EMAP Consumer Media (ECM) Subscription Retention project


Digital Print
WDMP for their Thomson Holidays - Anniversary Mailing

Downstream Access – sponsored by Royal Mail Wholesale
UK Mail

Innovation - sponsored by PA Consulting Group
Royal Mail for their Personalised Integrated Media (PIM) campaign 


Mail Centre of the Year - sponsored by UK Mail
Bradford

Marketing Campaign – sponsored by Citipost
Royal Mail for their Stoplateness campaign

Technology – sponsored by ME news
BFPO for their e-bluey technology 


The organisers, Triangle, would like to publicly congratulate the winners, and also thank all the people and companies in the postal industry who entered, sponsored, judged and attended this year's UK Mail Awards. Photographs from this week's ceremony and any further information on the UK Mail Awards can be obtained from Triangle's marketing department on 0870 950 7900 or by contacting events@triangle.eu.com.

Anyone interested in taking part in the 2008 UK Mail Awards should keep an eye on www.mailawards.com/ukma for entry dates and details.