ECCO agencies win three European Excellence awards
ECCO positions itself as a favourite in this year’s European Excellence Award, which recognizes Europe’s best campaigns with finalists for its Spanish member Marco de Comunicación and for its French Member Wellcom as well as the Dutch partner, Bex Communicatie.
London, 10th December - ECCO, one of the leading networks of independently owned and operated PR and marketing communications consultancies, has won three awards.
The European Excellence Awards honour the outstanding performance of European PR campaigns in a wide variety of categories. The gala ceremony, which took place on December 8th in Prague honours the winners chosen by an expert jury from 500 entries from all over Europe.
Marco de Comunicación (MdC), the most awarded Spanish PR agency for the 6th consecutive year won the European Excellence Award in the category relaunch with their campaign for Artiach (Panrico Group) :
“Return to Tradition”, the public relations campaign developed by Marco de Comunicación for Artiach won an award in the Product Relaunch category. The judges have evaluated Marco de Comunicación´s exceptional work of introducing the new Artinata Artiach cookies, reinforcing the brand´s values, and creating a new tie with consumers while at the same time achieving a 22% increase in sales.
The campaign was based on a 360º strategy that combined offline and online actions, including the realization of two roadshows in Bilbao and Madrid coinciding with the anniversary of Gran Vía.
Wellcom who were recently won the Grand Prix Strategie Relations Publique etc etc in France won their award for best campaign in France
Bex Communicatie won the European Excellence Award in the category of internal communications for their campaign for KPN.
Noud Bex, CEO of Bex*, is proud to win this award: “It is the first time we have participated in this competition. We were delighted that two out of three cases were nominated. We are very proud to win this award, especially because the competition in this category was strong. We are grateful for KPN’s belief in the power of corporate storytelling, we never could have won this award without them.”
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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. 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.
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