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Alan Perkel

Play with your food. No, really!

It’s that time of the year again – the time when all of our hard work on our holiday campaigns starts to pay off and we get to share with the world all of the fun we’ve been having! This year, together with one of our favorite clients – Idahoan Foods – we present to you Pilgrahoan.

Pilgrahoan by Idahoan is our way of putting the fun back into Holiday Fun.

RIESTER's Pilgrahoan - Spongebob Squarepants

RIESTER's Pilgrahoan: Spudbob Squarepants by Troy Pottgen.

We are inviting everyone to play with their food and enter the Pilgrahoan Celebrity Spud Showdown. Using only the foods we give them on a blank (virtual) Idaho potato as their canvas, the contestants will make celebrity look-a-likes, name their Celebrity Spud, and upload their creation to Facebook.

When we were concepting this idea, we sat sharing our favorite personal memories of holidays – and we couldn’t help but love the memories most of playing with our food on Thanksgiving. This seemed to be a theme we all kept coming back to – and an experience we all shared. So we decided to go with it- and make a fun holiday game out of playing with our food – virtually, of course!

Working on the Idahoan account over the years, has made everyone here at RIESTER crazy about Idahoan potatoes – and we’re excited and hopeful that the Pilgrahoan holiday contest will help us spread the love of potatoes with everyone.

If you haven’t yet made your fun, artistic creation, do it now! The competition is already looking fierce, but the fun is just beginning. And remember – creativity and originality wins!!

Tom Ortega

McDonald’s touts locally grown goodness.

At McDonald’s in Idaho, the french fries aren’t just made from any potatoes. They’re made from potatoes grown locally – in the nutrient-rich fields surrounding the communities that McDonald’s customers call home. In other words, the best fries in the world are made with the best potatoes in the world. At RIESTER, we worked with our client, the Southern Idaho McDonald’s Advertising Co-op, to highlight this point of difference…and point of pride. Our efforts have included in-store marketing, outdoor, and public relations throughout the region.

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3740_SIMAC_french fry posterFinal.indd

Tom Ortega

Tobacco: Choose or refuse.

When teens are offered tobacco, it’s not always easy to say no. So RIESTER has teamed up with the Arizona Bureau of Tobacco Education & Prevention to give kids the refusal skills they need.

Choose/Refuse is a video questionnaire that takes kids through a variety of scenarios.

They’re watching it on venomocity.com, YouTube and Facebook.

It features real Arizona kids, along with a real mechanical arm.

RIESTER

Addiction, there is hope.

RIESTER has been helping to fight addiction since our earliest days.

This public awareness piece was for Utah’s End Meth Now campaign. Sarah McLachlan thought it was such a powerful and important message that she donated the music.

Addiction’s goal is to kill. Our goal is to beat addiction. We know it can be done.

RIESTER

Celebrating Agri, Culture and the Utah State Fair!

Laura Carlson

RIESTER congratulates PacifiCorp for wining 13 UCI Better Communicator Awards.

One of the award winning ads.

One of the award winning ads.

The UCI Better Communicators Competition was held last night and PacifiCorp was the big winner with 13 awards! Below is a list of the awards and categories:

First place, Complete Campaign (marketing): wattsmart
First Place, Direct Mail: Centennial brochure
First place, Series of Newspaper ads (marketing): wattsmart series (fantasy, inefficient, demanding)
First place, Employee Communications: Centennial video
First place, Single TV ad (marketing): Front Door
First place, It Didn’t Fly: Toilet paper – online bill pay poster

Second place, Outdoor: Fan
Second place, Single Newspaper ad, Image/PR: Flower
Second place: Safety communications: Call Before You Dig TV

Third place, Outdoor: Caulk
Third place, Bill Insert: Home Energy IQ Workshop (with flower)
Third place, Special Brochure: Utah PR brochure

Best in Show, Newspaper/Magazine: Flower

Congratulations and thank you to everyone who worked hard on these communications pieces!

In case you aren’t familiar with this awards competition, The Better Communications Competition is among the longest running awards programs for excellence in utility communications.

Congratulations PacifiCorp!

RIESTER

“Bike Shop.”

What setting could be better than a bike shop to help Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power remind customers of the importance of renewable energy and energy efficiency programs?

Biking is about being outdoors and exercising. When we get on a bike, we are stepping out of the controlled and energy intensive environments where so many of us spend so much time.

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