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HARTSVILLE, S.C., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one of the largest diversified global packaging and services companies, today announced that its retail point-of-purchase display and packaging services business won three awards at the Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) 55(th) annual Outstanding Marketing at Retail Achievement (OMA) competition. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120403/CL80773LOGO ) POPAI's annual OMA competition recognizes...
CHICAGO, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) announced the winners of its 55th annual Outstanding Marketing at Retail Achievement (OMA) Awards Competition during GlobalShop 2013. More than 500 entrants from over 100 companies were adjudicated in 26 industry categories during this year's competition. Entries were judged on design, innovation, interactivity, and the proven ability to lift sales. "Recognizing the most innovative...
SAN FRANCISCO and NOVATO, Calif., Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- California and Massachusetts-based green, precision homebuilder Blu Homes (www.bluhomes.com) today announced that it has partnered with non-profit Homeward Bound of Marin (www.hbofm.org) on a critically-needed, permanent, supportive housing project for homeless families in Marin County. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121011/NE91095) With the Oma Village project, Blu Homes and Homeward Bound will transform...
MOSCOW, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture unveiled plans for a new building in Gorky Park designed by Rem Koolhaas' OMA. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120427/527277-a ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120427/527277-b ) Garage Gorky Park - due to be completed in 2013 - will be a renovation of the famous 1960s Vremena Goda (Seasons of the Year) restaurant, a prefabricated concrete...
DALLAS, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- During the AT&T Performing Arts Center's Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre's grand opening this week, audiences are discovering a 575-seat, "multi-form" theater that gives one of the country's most innovative performing arts companies an unprecedented reconfiguration of both house and stage. Unlike a typical theater, the Wyly positions back-of-house and front-of-house facilities above and beneath the auditorium instead of encircling it. Designed by REX/OMA,...
As sports fans from around the world convene on the city of Beijing for this year's summer games, it's becoming hard to ignore the city as a modern world power. Just thirty years ago, the city was a poverty stricken backwater studded by a few dull Stalinist monuments grafted onto an ancient and decaying imperial capital. Now, Beijing has become home to many world-class structures and remarkable architecture."The Olympics is a world event and world-class architecture has been delivered...
