Navigator : paper launches Global Talent Design Contest - 4th edition

Press Release - January 2018

Dreams - Global Talent Design Contest

Navigator Dreams 2018 calls for talents worldwide.

THE BEST STAGE FOR TALENT IS BACK!

Navigator, the world's leading premium office paper brand, is once again inviting young design students and professionals to join Dreams - Global Talent Design Contest and create the new Navigator Students packaging layout.

With great prizes and a world class jury, this is the perfect Contest to let the imagination and creativity shine and receive worldwide recognition. e winner will see his/her Navigator Students ream design displayed all over the world, thereby enriching their professional portfolio.

"It´s great to see young people interacting with Navigator, experiencing and thinking the brand in their own way, and showing their own particular perspective through the creation of a new layout for one of our products, especially one that is targeted at a younger audience", explains Ricardo Ferreira, Navigator Brand Manager.

Open for entries until the 23rd of March 2018, this contest will award the three best submissions with a iMAC Pro, a Cintiq 27 QHD and an iPad Pro with Apple pencil and keyboard, respectively. e best Making Of will also be awarded a Polaroid OneStep2 camera.

Navigator will select 30 finalists from all eligible proposals and the 30 shortlisted projects will be reviewed by an independent jury. e winners will be revealed on the 30th of April 2018.

Navigator Dreams 2018 is the 4th edition of this contest, which is growing every year.

e 2017 edition generated more than twice the number of participations registered on the 1st edition and 100 more participations than the 2016 edition. Participants span across 57 nations from the five continents. Portugal, Russia and Mexico were the top three countries in number of participations, followed by Serbia, Greece and Brazil.

See the winning layouts from previous editions here.

A WORLD CLASS JURY

Preeminent Navigator figures and distinguished designers compose the jury panel. On the one hand, António Redondo, member of e Navigator Company's Board of Directors, António Quirino Soares, the Company's Marketing Director and Ricardo Ferreira, Navigator Brand Manager.

On the other hand, Hedof will be one of the judges (http://hedof.com/). Having his art work recognized in a worldwide level, Hedof has been working for many brands including e New York Times, Heineken, Lipton Ice Tea, Playstation, IKEA, Redbull and many other; and AKACORLEONE (http://akacorleone.com), which is known, in the field of visual arts, for his dexterity in using colors, typography, characters and refined forms which he blends to achieve eye-catching compositions imbued with originality and all - persuasive humor.

ABOUT THE NAVIGATOR COMPANY e Navigator Company is the new face of the former Portucel Soporcel group, after its rebranding in 2016.

e Navigator Company is Portugal's third leading exporter, and the exporter generating the highest level of national value added. e Group accounts for approximately 1% of Portugal's GDP, around 3% of the country's total exports of goods, close to 8% of all containerized cargo and 7% of all containerized and conventional cargo exported through Portuguese ports.

In 2016, the Company set a new all-time record for paper output, with an annual turnover of approximately 1.6 billion euros.

Having consolidated its position as the leading European manufacturer, and the fourth largest in the world, of uncoated woodfree (UWF) printing and writing paper, e Navigator Company is also Europe's top producer of BEKP (Bleached Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp), the fifth largest in the world, and has entered the tissue market, where it expects to become of key players in the continent.

e Navigator Company has successfully pursued a strategy of innovation and development of its own brands, which today account for 62% of sales of manufactured products. Special mention should be made of the Navigator brand, the world's best-selling product in the premium office paper segment.

e Navigator Company sells its products to 130 countries over five continents, with a special focus on Europe and the US, giving it the broadest export base of any Portuguese company.

As a vertically integrated forestry Company with its own forestry research institute RAIZ, it manages vast tracts of forest in Portugal certified under the FSC® and PEFC™ systems (FSC license C010852 and PEFC license 13-23-001), and boasts annual production capacity for 1.6 million tons of paper, 1.4 million tons of pulp (of which 1.1 million is integrated into paper) and power generation of 2.5 TWh, adding up to annual turnover of approximately 1.6 billion euros.

e Navigator Company operates one of Europe's largest nurseries for forestry plants, with annual production capacity of approximately 12 million certified plants of various species, destined for use in renewing Portugal's woodlands.

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