CDS Global honored with 14 MarCom Awards

News release

DES MOINES, Iowa – Nov. 11, 2011 – CDS Global announces that the company’s Global Marketing & Communications team has won 14 MarCom Awards in the 2011 international competition, which recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communications professionals.

CDS Global was awarded five Platinum Awards, the event’s highest honor, as well as five Gold Awards and four Honorable Mentions for pieces ranging from multichannel marketing campaigns, marketing collateral pieces and print ads to print and electronic external newsletters, e-cards, white papers and pro bono work. Awards are given for excellence in content, design, quality, creativity and resourcefulness. The well-respected industry competition has grown to perhaps the largest of its kind, and winners show a range in size from individual communicators to media conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies.

“We are beyond proud to be internationally recognized by the MarCom Awards as a leader in marketing and communications,” said Eileen White, vice president of Global Marketing & Communications at CDS Global. “As a business process outsourcing company to the media, consumer product, nonprofit and utility industries, these awards are just another example of CDS Global’s commitment to being a strategic partner and thought leader to the companies we serve. We apply platinum and gold standards in everything we do for our clients, in all departments and with every service we offer, as an everyday business practice.”

Listed below are the company’s winning submissions:

Platinum Awards

Turn Up the Heat Design (Print)	Direct Mailer
Turn Up the Heat	Microsite
“From Caging to Campaigns”	Writing/White Paper
Perspectives: Technology in Motion	External Newsletter/Corporate
2010 Holiday E-card	E-Communication/E-Card

Gold Awards

CDS Global: Shattering Expectations	Microsite
Perspectives: A Look Under the Hood	Magazine/Corporate
“What Online Shoppers Need”	Writing/White Paper
Perspectives: CDS Global Shines a Light	Design (Print) Newsletter Cover
Perspectives: A Look Under the Hood (Digital)	E-Communication/E-Newsletter

Honorable Mentions

Folio Ad	Ads/Business/Trade Publication
Perspectives: A Look Under the Hood	Writing/Feature Article
Cross-Media Communications Solutions Brochure	Brochure/Capabilities
Heart Walk 2010 Photo Book	Pro Bono

The MarCom Awards, which are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing & Communication Professionals, reviewed over 6,000 entries from throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries in the 2011 competition. Of those entries, approximately 18 percent won the Platinum Award, 18 percent won the Gold Award and 10 percent received an Honorable Mention. Winners were selected from over 200 categories in seven forms of media and communication efforts: marketing, publications, marketing/promotion, public service/pro bono, creativity and electronic/interactive.