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ECCO tops awards among independant PR networks at the European Excellence Awards
ECCO network scores a hat trick at the European Excellence Awards in Berlin on the Thursday 13th December.
17-12-2007
ECCO, one of the leading networks of independently owned and operated PR and marketing communications consultancies, has picked up three awards at the European Excellence Award 2007 (http://www.excellence-awards.eu/_files/excellence_shortlist.pdf).
The Excellence Awards honour the outstanding performance of European PR campaigns in a wide variety of categories. The gala ceremony, which took place in December 13th in Berlin honoured both the short-listed nominees as well as the winners chosen by an expert jury from 600 entries from all over Europe.
Marco de Comunicación’s (MdC) campaign to raise pet awareness “A Pet, a life, Be responsible”. won in the category best campaign in Spain. This campaign against the abandonment of dogs obtained very significant media coverage: 17 TV clippings, 46 radio clippings, 137 in printed media and 72 online clippings reaching an audience of more than 83 million contacts with a real advertising value of 2.7 million Euros.
In 2005 / 2006, MdC was nominated for more awards that any other Spanish public relations agency. It was the only agency in Europe with 6 shortlisted campaigns at the awards.
On Board PR, On Board Public Relations’ NSZZ Solidarnosc: “Low Wages a Barrier to Poland‘s Develop¬ment” campaign won the award for the best public affairs campaign in Europe and the best PR campaign in Poland.
National Social Campaign “Low wages a barrier to Poland’s development”, carried out for NSZZ Solidarno trade unions, is aimed at improving salary conditions of employees by promoting the idea of social dialogue and social solidarity. As a result of the campaign an agreement between Solidarnosc and government was signed. Minimum wage has risen by 20% - wage growth was three times faster in 2007 than in the previous period.
For more inforamtion on ECCO, please visit www.ecco-network.com. For more information on Marco de Comunicación, please visit www.marcodecomunicacion.com. For more information on On Board PR, please visit www.onboard.pl.
Notes to Editors
ECCO
ECCO is a network of independently owned and operated PR and marketing communications consultancies located in over 40 countries around the world and headquartered in London. ECCO has over 30 members in over 40 countries with €48,000,000 in billings. ECCO member agencies are successful in their own right and are owner-managed by senior people with big agency/big client experience. ECCO’s clients range from fast growing businesses such as Regus, MEGA and Interface FLOR to long established global brands like Xerox, Sony, Conoco Jet Nordics and UPS Logistics Group. ECCO was ranked 4th largest European PR network in the last PR Week League Tables to cover the independent networks (PR Week European League Table 2005).
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