The UK’s Stationers’ Company has elected Tony Mash as its new Master.
In his career, Mash has spent 27 years with ICI and AstraZeneca in a range of international business development, procurement and change roles in the plastics, refrigeration gas, agrochemical and coatings sectors. He later worked for British, American, Japanese and Australian companies. He is also a former CEO of the British Coatings Federation.
On becoming the President of the Old Stationers’ Association in 2002, Mash was invited to join the Stationers’ Company and became a Liveryman a year later. He was first appointed as Trade Association Liaison, and later ran the Company’s Innovation Excellence Awards for its first four years.
Mash joined the Court of the Company in 2014 and has since chaired the Industry and the Marketing Advisory Committees. He is now the Treasurer of the Friends of the Stationers’ Foundation in the USA. Mash also became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Horners in 2012.
Meanwhile, a total of 18 organisations have been shortlisted for the Stationers’ Company Innovation Excellence Awards 2023. They are:
Business Process
- Contact Originators
- LoveReading
- Virtusales Publishing Solutions
Communications Including Marketing
- Fantom Factory
- JGBM
- Rose Calendars
Customer Experience
- Class Professional Publishing
- Pearson
- Xerox
Product Design
- Cengage EMEA
- Parkside Flexibles
- Renz (UK)
Service Development
- Glassboxx
- Pearson
- Office Power
Start-up
- A-dapt International
- Graide
- Read and Raise
The six category winners, plus the recipient of the overall Innovator of the Year Award, will be announced at an awards luncheon at the historic Stationers’ Hall in the City of London on 25 September.





