ACCELERIS - ONE TO WATCH

November 07

The agency scoops two awards at the CIPR Awards

acceleris marketing communications has scooped one major award and one nomination at the prestigious CIPR awards. The success comes hard on the heels of the agency hitting its £1 million business milestone, just ten months since it launched.

At the glittering award ceremony at the Queens Hotel, Leeds on Wednesday 7th November, acceleris picked up a Silver Award for ‘Best Use of Media Relations’ for its work for client Motors.co.uk. The agency’s work for Motors.co.uk has, since its launch in April this year, seen the website attract more than half a million unique visitors a month

Commenting on the award winning project, the judges said: 'A clearly defined and articulated campaign driven by fluid media engagement and celebrity know how. Excellent use of an innotative and well researched marketing mechanism to reach a UK-wide audience.'

The second award was a Finalist Commendation in the ’Best Public Sector’ campaign for the National Federation of ALMOs (NFA) whose members manage 1m council homes around the country. The agency’s campaign for the NFA includes re-branding, corporate communications, government affairs, sponsorship and a national awards programme. The campaign was also a finalist in the Public Sector category of the 2007 PR Week Awards.

Peter Davenport, Director of acceleris, said: 'It is testament to the hard work and commitment of a talented team to be nominated and win against the top leading agencies. We pride ourselves on our relationships with our clients and this is great news not only for us but for them as well. We have big ambitions as an agency and being shortlisted for three awards in just 10 months is a great start.'

The award winning account teams were as follows:

Motors.co.uk - Louise Vaughan, Senior Account Director; Claire Davis, Senior Account Manager and Simon Baylis, Senior Account Executive

NFA - Louise Vaughan, Senior Account Director; Paul Amourdedieu, Account Director; Simon Baylis, Senior Account Executive and Cameron Paterson, Senior Writer.