January 16, 2009 -
The MarCom Awards 2008 competition awarded DKY six awards, including two Platinum, three Gold Awards and one Honorable Mention. This is the second consecutive year DKY has earned numerous awards.
Platinum Awards were given for the Cargill Crop Insurance Launch Campaign in the category of Promotion Materials, and for the 2009 Winnebago Itasca Ellipse brochure in the category of Brochure/Business to Consumers.
Gold Awards were given for the Cargill AgHorizons Marketing Services Direct Mail Campaign and the Cargill ProPricing Campaign, which received two, in the categories of Promotional Materials and Microsite.
Sponsored by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, the MarCom Awards is an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communication professionals. There were over 5,000 entries from throughout the United States and several foreign countries in the MarCom 2008 competition.
The prestigious Platinum Award is presented to those entries judged to be among the most outstanding entries in the competition (about 18%). The Gold Award is presented to entries that exceed the high standards of the industry norm (about 18%), and approximately 10% are Honorable Mention winners.
The MarCom statuettes are designed and individually cast by the same artisans that craft the Oscar®, Emmy® and MTV Awards.
