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Hong Kong Awards for Industries

Hong Kong's official annual recognition for industry and commerce, led by the Trade and Industry Department with the organising committee chaired by a Deputy Director-General of Trade and Industry. The 2025-26 edition has five categories, organised respectively by the FHKI, the CMA, the HKRMA, the HKGCC and the HKYIC. Two categories judge products (consumer product design, equipment and machinery design); three judge companies (customer service, innovation and creativity, upgrading and transformation). For Hong Kong manufacturers, retail-service businesses and companies mid-transformation, this carries the most weight.

This fits you if

You're a Hong Kong company with a product you designed, a formed customer-service system, or an upgrading story you can tell clearly, and you want a government endorsement to take to mainland and overseas buyers.

This is not for you if

Pure software and ICT solutions — that's the HKICT Awards' turf; and pure OEM work with no design of your own or service system doesn't fit any of the five categories.

Key figures
Categories
5

2 product-based + 3 company-based[S101]

Origin
Created in 2005 by merging the Hong Kong Awards for Industry and the Hong Kong Awards for Services[S101]
Lead department
Trade and Industry Department

committee chaired by a Deputy Director-General[S101]

Led by the Trade and Industry Department (organising committee chaired by a Deputy Director-General of Trade and Industry); each of the 5 categories is organised by a chamber2025-26 editionAnnual
Official award recognition and the right to use the award mark, plus promotion at government and chamber levelCategories: 5 categories (2 product-based, 3 company-based)
Entry / deadline
Each category is announced and collected by its own organising chamber; entries for the 2025-26 Equipment and Machinery Design category have opened, with the other categories following their organisers' announcements
Who can enter
Hong Kong enterprises (product categories judge the entered product; company categories judge overall performance)
Official pageEntry guidelines

Five categories, five organising chambers

You don't enter through the Trade and Industry Department — you go to the chamber that organises your category. That also sets the lens: the CMA looks at machinery, the retail association at the service floor, the general chamber at creativity.

Consumer Product Design · Federation of Hong Kong Industries[S101]
Judges the entered product itself; aimed at consumer-goods makers with their own design.
View official page
Equipment and Machinery Design · The Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong[S101]
Industrial equipment, production machinery and automation; entries for 2025-26 have opened.
View official page
Customer Service · Hong Kong Retail Management Association[S101]
Judges the company's service system and front-line execution — the main arena for retail and services.
View official page
Innovation and Creativity · Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce[S101]
Judges the company's innovation practice and results, across all industries.
View official page
Upgrading and Transformation · Hong Kong Young Industrialists Council[S101]
Judges the shift from OEM to brand, or traditional to smart manufacturing — those with both a story and numbers do best.
View official page

How it splits from the HKICT Awards

The simple split: if you sell software, a platform or a digital service → HKICT Awards; if you sell physical goods, in-store service or the overall standard of the company → Hong Kong Awards for Industries. Smart hardware can go either way, so pick by which circle you want to be remembered in — tech or industry.

How to apply
  1. 1

    Fix the category first, then find its chamber

    The TID site is only an index; entries and rules live with the organising chamber.

    Pitfall: Asking the Trade and Industry Department how to enter — wrong door.

  2. 2

    Confirm this edition's deadline and fee

    The five categories publish their own schedules and don't run in sync.

    Pitfall: Working to last edition's dates and missing this one.

  3. 3

    Prepare accordingly: product entries need design and market results; company entries need systems and numbers

    The three company categories judge sustained practice, not a one-off result.

    Pitfall: Submitting a single promotion campaign as 'innovation and creativity'.

Next steps
  1. 01In machinery → the CMA's Equipment and Machinery Design category is open for 2025-26; ask for the deadline first.
  2. 02In retail, F&B or services → the Customer Service category (HKRMA) is the closest fit.
  3. 03Moving from OEM to brand → the Upgrading and Transformation category, and look at the Hong Kong Top Brand elections too; the two run in parallel.
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The TID site lists categories and organisers but not per-category deadlines, fees or detailed eligibility — those sit on each chamber's own pages. This page records what the main site and the organisations publish; check with the chamber before entering.

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