AN OTFORD-BASED event management firm is to run a new awards contest for the printing industry.

Serenita has won the contract to launch the Screen Printing Association awards. Ron Dullage, founder of Serenita, has run the Printing World Awards at Grosvenor House, London, for many years. He said he was delighted by the decision.

"We are confident that these new awards will grow over the coming years to become firmly established as the leading event for this important sector of the printing industry," he said.

Serenita, based in Longmore House, High Street, Otford, also organises seminars, exhibition stands, sales conferences, product launches, and corporate hospitality events such as golf days for all types of business clients.