RIESTER

Phoenix-based RIESTER today announced that the agency walked away from the 22^nd Annual ADDY Awards Ceremony with 14 awards for creative excellence, including eight Gold awards, two Silver and four Bronze. The Utah ADDY’s were also handed out on March 10 with RIESTER’s Salt Lake City office winning four Silver awards.

The top awards – Gold – were for work serving the Los Angeles Farmer’s Market, Camp Colley, and RIESTER’ s own web site as well as its Public Affairs division. RIESTER’s newly added MultiCultural division also took home two Gold Awards for the Arizona Lottery’s Hispanic television campaign. The Silver awards were for work on Camp Colley and RIESTER; and the Bronze awards were for work on Arizona Science Center, Arizona Lottery, Tucson’s Territorial Bar and Los Angeles Animal Services. The Utah Silver awards were given to RIESTER recognizing outstanding creative work for California Department of Conservation, Discovery Gateway, Pixels and RIESTER.com.

“We have great clients who appreciate creative work. It’s gratifying to see them and our people get recognized,” said Tom Ortega, executive creative director for RIESTER. “Any time we win an award, it’s because every discipline within our agency did something right.”

The ADDY Awards capped off a great year for RIESTER. After adding a packaged goods division in its LA office in mid 2006, along with it’s newly formed MutliCultural division, RIESTER became the agency of record for the Maricopa Association of Governments’ Anti-Litter campaign, Arizona Meth Project, and Culligan Water, among others.

The annual ceremony, hosted by the Phoenix Advertising Club, was held on March 10 at the Heard Museum. Each year, the competition recognizes and rewards outstanding creative work in the art of advertising and is the industry’s largest and most representative competition for creative excellence. Gold Award winners will go on to compete in the American Advertising Federation’s National ADDY Awards competition on June 9 in Louisville, KY.