Adams & Knight Dominates the American Marketing Association Awards

PRLog (Press Release) - Jun. 20, 2011 - Adams & Knight, Inc. was recognized by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) with top accolades for nine of the eleven 2011 Mark of Excellence Awards. The Mark of Excellence Awards are judged by a panel of AMA marketing professionals from across the country and are evaluated based on overall campaign strategy, creative and results.

The Avon-based integrated marketing communications agency was awarded top honors in six categories: Business to Business Campaign, Consumer Marketing Campaign, Event Marketing Campaign, Marketing Research Project, Not for Profit Marketing Campaign and Public Relations Campaign.

“We’re proud of the number of awards that we received on behalf of so many clients and across so many disciplines,” said Jill Adams, president of Adams & Knight. “Most importantly, we’re honored that the American Marketing Association recognized our continued focus on delivering measurable results.”

The AMA panel presented awards for NewAlliance Bank, Sun Life Employee Benefits Group, SPARTA Insurance, Mystic Seaport, the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET) Dream Big! Competition Awards Ceremony, the Council for Disability Awareness (CDA), Hartford Stage’s “Anthony & Cleopatra” Campaign and Shiloh Church.

“The campaigns submitted this year returned impressive results, making the judges’ job harder,” said Aimee Furness, AMA-CT President. “The final scores were very high, setting new benchmarks and, we believe, representative of the great marketing produced by our local marketers.”

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Adams & Knight is an integrated marketing communications firm founded in 1988 that provides strategic research, advertising, media planning and buying, public relations and digital marketing services for a range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, consumer services and technology. The agency can be reached at 860.676.2300 or at http://www.adamsknight.com