ANA Announces 2016 Multicultural Excellence Award Winners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 10, 2016
ANA ANNOUNCES 2016 MULTICULTURAL EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNERS
Berkshire Hathaway’s Duracell Brand Takes Best in Show;
Grand Prize Winners in 12 Categories Also Honored
LOS ANGELES (October 10, 2016) — Berkshire Hathaway’s Duracell brand and its agency Anomaly received top honors last night, winning the Best in Show award in the ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards competition for “Stay Connected,” a campaign that told the story of how a grandfather overcomes a hearing disability.
In addition, grand prize winners were awarded in 12 categories for industry-leading advertising. The awards ceremony was held during the ANA’s (Association of National Advertisers) Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference.
Now in its 16th year, the 2016 Multicultural Excellence Awards recognize client-side marketers together with their agency or media partners who produced multicultural advertising campaigns between June 2015 and June 2016. This year’s competition, open to both ANA members and nonmembers, received 192 entries.
The 2016 grand prize brand and agency winners in each of the categories are as follows:
CATEGORY BRAND AGENCY
Best in Show Duracell (Berkshire Hathaway) Anomaly
African-American McDonald’s Lime Green Moroch
Asian McDonald’s IW Group
Audio USDA Animal and Health Sensis
Inspection Service
Business-to-Business Univision Communications Blanco Lorenz
Digital, Social,
and Mobile Toyota Tacoma Conill
Experiential
Marketing NESCAFÉ Clasico Casanova McCann
(Nestlé USA)
Hispanic Coca-Cola DAVID
LGBT This Free Life Rescue
(Food and Drug Administration)
People with Duracell (Berkshire Hathaway) Anomaly
Disabilities
Print XFINITY (Comcast) Burrell Communications
Total Market Kleenex (Kimberly-Clark Corp.) J. Walter Thompson
Significant Results American Girl (Mattel) Mattel (In-House)
The Best in Show award is given to the best of the grand prize winners in all 12 categories.
“My congratulations go out to all the winners of this year’s competition for their outstanding work and their overall contributions to multicultural advertising and marketing,” said Bob Liodice, ANA president and CEO. “Their work is an inspiration for our entire industry and serves as an example to other marketers and agencies who are striving to excel in the all-important multicultural arena.”
The ANA announced the award recipients at the ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards Dinner, hosted by Gilbert Dávila, chair of the ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Committee, and Bill Duggan, group EVP at the ANA.
The ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Committee established the awards 16 years ago. The awards help raise awareness and recognition for outstanding advertising work featuring African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, LGBTs, and people with disabilities. A portion of the proceeds collected from the awards submission fees helps to fund scholarships for high-potential multicultural students who plan to pursue careers in advertising and/or marketing.
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