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COSSETTE Takes Top Creative Awards in the U.K.

Posted on: Thursday, 18 December 2008, 12:49 CST

Elvis, MCBD and Dare Recognized for Excellence in Direct, Creative and Digital Marketing

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- COSSETTE has won the highest creative citations from the U.K.'s two leading trade publications, Campaign and Marketing magazines. COSSETTE outshone all other communications companies by winning the most awards in this highly competitive advertising industry environment.

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Elvis, COSSETTE's direct marketing agency, was named Direct Agency of the Year by both Campaign and Marketing.

COSSETTE's advertising agency, Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy (MCBD), won Campaign's Campaign of the Year award for its blockbuster TV campaign for the Hovis bread brand. MCBD also placed second in Marketing's voting for Best Creative Agency.

COSSETTE's digital agency, Dare, took second place in Marketing's Best Digital Agency category.

Elvis earned its industry acclaim as best direct marketing agency with wins from clients such as T-Mobile and Britvic, as well as standout work on accounts like Virgin Holidays.

"The success of Elvis, MCBD and Dare is testament to our best-in-breed strategy. As a group, COSSETTE can face the challenges of 2009 from a position of strength -- across all disciplines. In addition, these awards, which are voted on by a panel of 18 senior clients and consultants, are a great endorsement of the effectiveness of the creative product across COSSETTE in London. We are genuinely thrilled to be recognized in this way," said Gregor Angus, Chief Operating Officer, COSSETTE U.K.

"The COSSETTE organization has made the statement that our mission -- and a key building block of our success -- is to deliver a spectacular product," says Brett Marchand, EVP and Managing Director of COSSETTE in Toronto. "This impressive showing in the U.K. is proof that we mean what we say."

To learn more about these honors and the campaigns that contributed to them, go to http://www.peoplefromcossette.com/medias/uk-awards/index.htm

About the PEOPLE FROM COSSETTE

COSSETTE offers a full range of leading-edge communication services to clients of all sizes, including some of the most prestigious brands in the world. A customer-driven organization built around highly specialized business units, COSSETTE also offers Convergent Communications(TM), a unique working method that brings added value to the client by integrating various services offered by the Group, including strategic planning and research, advertising, media planning and buying, sales promotion, CRM, database and direct marketing, interactive marketing and technology solutions, public relations and alliance marketing, branding and design, ethnic marketing, sports marketing, branded content and product placement and business-to-business communications (B2B practices). COSSETTE has approximately 1,650 employees and offices in Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, New York, Irvine, Los Angeles, London, Moscow and Shanghai.

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Source: PR Newswire

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