MIA Honors 2008 Best “Rocky” Ads

Pokarna Ltd. of Secunderabad, India, took two honors in the Fourth Annual MIA Rocky Advertising Awards competition, with another citation for Singapore-based Masonry Pte. Ltd.
In all, the MIA awarded five Rocky Awards and six Rocky Certificates in the competition sponsored by Salem Stone of Winston-Salem, N.C. Winners were honored here last month at MIA annual Awards Luncheon in Las Vegas on October 17, 2008.
“When MIA and Salem Stone launched the awards program in 2005, there were two goals,” said Gary Distelhorst, MIA executive vice president. “First was to recognize the best advertising and collateral material produced by MIA companies around the world, and second, to raise the overall quality of advertising and promotion in the industry. Both goals are being achieved.”

The award winners are:

Collateral Material:
Rocky Award and Best of Show: Charles Luck Stone Center, Richmond, Va.
Rocky Award: Innovative Stone, Hauppauge, N.Y.
Rocky Certificate: Masonry Pte. Ltd., Singapore
Rocky Certificate: Pokarna Ltd., Secunderabad, India

Print Advertising:
Rocky Award: Clervi Marble Co., San Francisco
Rocky Certificate: Pokarna Ltd., Secunderabad, India
Rocky Certificate: Charles Luck Stone Center, Richmond, Va.

Web Site: Business to Business
Rocky Award: KEPCO+, Salt Lake City
Rocky Certificate: Intrepid Marble & Granite, Portland, Ore.

Web Site: Business to Consumer
Rocky Award: Intrepid Marble & Granite, Portland, Ore.
Rocky Certificate: HartzStone, Newtown, Conn.

This year’s judges are Christopher Peer, Idea Engine Inc., Rocky River, Ohio; Liz Radivoyevitch, RAD Graphics Inc., Cleveland Heights, Ohio; and Susan Myers, Clear Blue Sky Design, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Go here to watch the actual award presentations.