Nokwanda Lehana, packaging and technology student from the Institute of Packaging South Africa (IPSA) with her Gold Pack Award, and Jan Wegelin, Research Manager from BMi Research. Nokwanda was awarded IPSA's Student Gold Pack Award for excellent research in the packaging category. BMi Research, one of South Africa's leading research houses, sponsored the award, which included a R500 cash prize. The Student Gold Pack awards took place at the Inanda Club in Sandton on 13 October 2011.
BMi Research (Pty) Ltd is a research house specialising in consumer, retail, FMCG and industrial research and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the South African-based Cognition Holdings, a JSE-listed company.