Orora was delighted to host its inaugural Supplier of the Year Awards, at a dinner at the MCG last night.

Orora was delighted to host its inaugural Supplier of the Year Awards, at a dinner at the MCG last night.

Orora’s Supplier of the Year Awards celebrate and recognise its suppliers and business partners in terms of Outperformance through innovation, customer focus, working together and commercial excellence.

“We are proud of the strong relationships we have with our suppliers. This is the first year we have held the Supplier of the Year Awards, and we see this program as a way to recognise the importance of our suppliers to Orora and acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding contribution they make to our business each year,” said Nigel Garrard, Managing Director and CEO.

“Our suppliers play a key role in contributing to our ongoing success, the challenge for all of us is to continue to find new ways of working together to deliver more innovation, improved customer focus, establish even more collaborative relationships and continue to deliver genuine commercial outcomes.”

“Congratulation to all those suppliers nominated and in particular, the winners of each category. We are especially delighted to announce Novelis and ANZ Banking Group as our joint winners this year.

“Novelis and ANZ were recognised for the competitive relationship they built with Orora, and stood out by meeting all the criteria set - innovation, commercial excellence, customer focus and working together. Ultimately, these two suppliers were able to come up with a solution that delivered outstanding quality, performance and significantly improved commercial outcomes for our business,” said Mr Garrard.

Orora Supplier of the Year Award Winners

Orora Supplier of the Year 2016: Novelis Korea, ANZ Banking Group

Innovation Award: Citi

Customer Focus: NZL Group

Commercial Excellence: Ji’an Group

Working Together: UACJ/Sumitomo